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The Social History of Smoking
by George L. Apperson (1857-1937)
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has fitted in with the fashions and customs throughout the ages, and the changes in the attitude of society towards smoking. (Summary by Maikki)
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Total running time: 7:01:23
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- 00 – Preface – 00:03:36
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Read by: Maire Rhode - 01 – The First Pipes of Tobacco Smoked in England – 00:27:11
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Read by: Maire Rhode - 02 – Tobacco Triumphant: Smoking Fashionable and Universal – 00:27:46
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Read by: Maire Rhode - 03 – Tobacco Triumphant (continued) Sellers of Tobacco and Professors of the Art of Smoking – 00:29:17
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Read by: Anna Roberts - 04 – Cavalier and Roundhead Smokers – 00:20:30
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Read by: Tricia G - 05 – Smoking in the Restoration Era – 00:22:08
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Read by: anonymous - 06 – Smoking Under King William III and Queen Anne – 00:29:06
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Read by: Roger Melin - 07 – Smoking Unfashionable: Early Georgian Days – 00:39:00
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Read by: Maire Rhode - 08 – Smoking Unfashionable (Continued) – 00:29:13
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Read by: Tricia G - 09 – Signs of Revival – 00:35:27
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Read by: Mike Vendetti - 10 – Early Victorian Days – 00:47:09
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Read by: WangHaojie - 11 – Later Victorian Days – 00:22:11
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Read by: Tricia G - 12 – Smoking In The Twentieth – 00:19:34
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Read by: Mark Penfold - 13 – Smoking by Women – 00:28:20
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Read by: MixieArmadillo - 14 – Smoking in Church – 00:16:59
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Read by: Ian Hatley - 15 – Tobacconists’ Signs – 00:23:56
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Read by: Jason Mayoff
Cataloged on November 28, 2008













