Author: BUCKINGHAM James Silk (Chairman)
Title: Evidence on Drunkenness Presented to the House of Commons Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Extent, Causes, and consequences of the prevailing Vice of Intoxication almong the Labouring Classes of the United Kingdom, in order to ascertain whether any Legislative Measures can be devised to prevent the further spread of so great a National Evil.
Description: London 1834 [1], 591pp, 16pp index, fold out chart 22x15, half bound leather over textured boards, glt text and decoration on spine Leather worn, with splitting along the edges of the spine, corners and edges both worn, some foxing, contents generally good. Buckingham was a writer and campaigning journalist who served as a reform-minded MP between 1832 and 1836. This set of hearings led to a recommendation that alternatives to public houses should be established - libraries, reading rooms and other places of entertainment that did not depend on alcohol. Buckingham introduced a Bill to that effect in 1835 which did not become law, but which inspired later efforts in the 1845 Museums Act to allow municipal authorities to raise taxes to pay for the establishment of similar institutions.

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