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Culture: The Demon Drink and the Temperance movement
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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.
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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"!
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The Historical debate Callum Brown argues that religious values continued to influence Scottish society and life. Figures show attendance doubling between 1830-1914.
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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?
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