The Intoxicating Walk Down Gin Lane

Part of a season of events accompanying the exhibition “This Bewitching Poison”: The Royal College of Physicians and Alcohol, this study tour invites you to take a literal and metaphorical stroll down ‘Gin Lane’ and uncover the intriguing story of London, alcohol and (ill) health.

Among scenes redolent of William Hogarth’s famous prints, discover grooms’ pubs, gin palaces, temperance halls, houses for fallen women and apparently harmless milk bars.

Encounter the scale of humankind’s alcoholic excess and its devastating effects across the centuries, along with the attempts of the abstemious few to restrain their fellow man and woman.

The tour begins in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and concludes at the Royal College of Physicians with (non-alcoholic) refreshments and a tour of the exhibition.