4 Extra Debut. Drunkenness 'is not one sin, but all sins', said a preacher in 1624. Mark Whitaker looks at a royal campaign against drink. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker explores the 18th-century Gin Craze, how Defoe and Fielding responded to it and what the authorities did to end it. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker discovers why the government thought easier access to beer would solve the problem of 19th-century drunkenness. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker looks at how the temperance movement took a grip on British political life, leading to violent disagreements. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker investigates how great 19th-century minds wrestled with the politics of alcohol and the dilemmas of liberalism. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker examines the late 19th-century panic over habitual drunkards and the building of special asylums in which to rehabilitate them. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker examines the 'largest social experiment'; the state's role in the liquor trade during the First World War, in his history of the politics of alcohol. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker looks at how the pub industry responded to falling consumption and threatened nationalisation in the 1920s. From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker talks to Britain's leading historians about the politics of alcohol. How can the past inform present policy? From July 2010. Show more

Mark Whitaker looks at how and why the NHS embarked on the hospital treatment of alcoholics in the 1960s, in his history of the politics of alcohol. From July 2010. Show more