It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the online launch of the Intoxicating Spaces Project's virtual exhibition, which will take place on Wednesday 16 November at 1–2pm GMT (2–3pm CET).

Intoxicating Spaces traces the impact of ‘new’ intoxicants – opiates, tobacco, sugar, coffee, tea, and chocolate – on Europe’s urban spaces between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Three years in the making, and conceived as a digital scrapbook, the exhibition brings together over 1,000 exhibits, or ‘scraps’, from archives, libraries, and museums that illuminate this process in our case study cities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Stockholm. Designed to be used for research, teaching, or simply general interest, the exhibition provides an innovative and easy way to explore and compare the entangled histories of intoxicating spaces in the Baltic and North Seas.

At this online launch event we will briefly introduce the resource and its relationship to the project, explain how to get the most out of it, and relate some of the stories visible through its scraps.

WHEN?
Wednesday 16 November at 1–2pm GMT (2–3pm CET)

WHERE?
Online. Register via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intoxicating-spaces-virtual-exhibition-launch-tickets-433597450647

WHO?
Intoxicating Spaces. The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850
https://www.intoxicatingspaces.org

To join us, please register via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intoxicating-spaces-virtual-exhibition-launch-tickets-433597450647

The Intoxicating Spaces Research Team
https://www.intoxicatingspaces.org/people/