The Social History of Smoking

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)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Maire Rhode
00:03:36
Play 01 The First Pipes of Tobacco Smoked in England Maire Rhode
00:27:11
Play 02 Tobacco Triumphant: Smoking Fashionable and Universal Maire Rhode
00:27:46
Play 03 Tobacco Triumphant (continued) Sellers of Tobacco and Professors of the Art of Smoking Anna Roberts
00:29:17
Play 04 Cavalier and Roundhead Smokers TriciaG
00:20:30
Play 05 Smoking in the Restoration Era manicolaus
00:22:08
Play 06 Smoking Under King William III and Queen Anne Roger Melin
00:29:06
Play 07 Smoking Unfashionable: Early Georgian Days Maire Rhode
00:39:00
Play 08 Smoking Unfashionable (Continued) TriciaG
00:29:13
Play 09 Signs of Revival John W. Michaels
00:35:27
Play 10 Early Victorian Days WangHaojie
00:47:09
Play 11 Later Victorian Days TriciaG
00:22:11
Play 12 Smoking In The Twentieth Century Mark Penfold
00:19:34
Play 13 Smoking by Women MixieArmadillo
00:28:20
Play 14 Smoking in Church Ian Hatley
00:16:59
Play 15 Tobacconists’ Signs Jason Mayoff
00:26:11