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Culture: The Demon Drink and the Temperance movement. https://prezi.com/secure/9f186bb7600cdaf63b7a915354b31ae48dbab3b6/ Teacher note: This is just the link to a online presentation which is the same as the content of the power point. The Demon Drink.
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The Demon Drink • Pubs (public houses) became the very popular • with semi and skill working men. • Provided a place where they could escape the overcrowded tenements and of course the their wife and children. • Pubs became an important part of Scottish life.
The Kirk • Increasingly worried about church attendance. • Missionaries would preach in the slums. • Working class: viewed the church as a provider of services, "hatch, match and dispatch" (Baptism, marriage and funerals) • Increasingly connected to the values of the middle classes and skilled workers, start of wearing their "Sunday best". • Pub s were banned from opening on a Sunday. • Working men in Glasgow managed to get around this by going "doon the watter" on a Clyde steamer......"steaming drunk"!
The Historical debate • Callum Brown argues that religious values continued to influence Scottish society and life. • Figures show attendance doubling between 1830-1914.
Task • Use the intermediate book, p91 - 95 to answer the following. • 1) What was the Temperance Movement? • 2)Name some of the Temperance Societies • 3)How did they encourage people to stop drinking? • 4)What was the Temperance (Scotland)Act of 1913? • 5)Why had the amount of alcohol consumed in Scotland decreased by 1930?