<p>190 years ago John King and Joseph Livesey signed the total abstinence pledge thereby starting an unstoppable movement in Preston and Lancashire better known as the temperance movement. Dr Annemarie McAllister of UCLan joins archivists Kathryn Newman and Victoria McCann to talk about the socio-political history of the movement and in particular the impact it had on the lives of women and children. </p>

190 years ago John King and Joseph Livesey signed the total abstinence pledge thereby starting an unstoppable movement in Preston and Lancashire better known as the temperance movement. Dr Annemarie McAllister of UCLan joins archivists Kathryn Newman and Victoria McCann to talk about the socio-political history of the movement and in particular the impact it had on the lives of women and children.

<p>190 years ago John King and Joseph Livesey signed the total abstinence pledge thereby starting an unstoppable movement in Preston and Lancashire better known as the temperance movement. Dr Annemarie McAllister of UCLan joins archivists Kathryn Newman and Victoria McCann to talk about the socio-political history of the movement and in particular the impact it had on the lives of women and children.&nbsp;</p>

Thoughts on the temperance movement

A series of conversations about interesting items from the collections at Lancashire Archives, where nine hundred years of Lancashire's written heritage is looked after and made publicly available.

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