Drink Maps in Victorian Britain

To anyone with an interest in the sheer variety of cartography, Butler’s passion project will be a refreshing addition to the…bookcase. Works such as this preserve areas of map history that have been…overlooked, and leave one thirsty for more.’ -- Edward Brooke-Hitching '[This] book will certainly appeal to cartophiles, illustrated as it is with the maps of British towns and cities used by temperance campaigners. Indeed their beauty was part of the strategy...the campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument.'  -- Mark Mason * Here be flagons * 'A rare set of maps that depicts Victorian Scotland's taste for drink - the beer houses, boozers and bottleshops that were open for business to meet the seemingly unquenchable thirst of the country - has emerged.' -- Allison Campsie * The 'drink maps' that plotted Scotland's deep thirst for alcohol' *