Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people give up alcohol every January, but in the 1830s temperance created a "parallel existence" for non drinkers ...

WITH THE EMERGENCE of a national temperance movement in the 1820s, Rochester residents who were concerned about the ill-effects of drunkenness found a voice in their community. They began speaking out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has been published in a book exploring the architectural legacy of the Temperance movement. Temperance was a 19th ...

Academics ague the temperance movements paved the way for sobriety trends like Dry January.

An anti-alcohol vintage postcard from Patt Morrison's collection shows a progression from lemonade to the grave. Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For ...

Hundreds of halls were built as alcohol-free spaces, yet their past is now forgotten, says author.

Millions of people trying to cut out alcohol for Dry January may not realise they are following in the footsteps of a 19th Century social movement that began in the mills of West Yorkshire. Starting ...

Eighty-nine years ago this week, another of our long national nightmares was over. For 13 luckless years, the United States of America went piously, officially “dry,” banning by constitutional ...