Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

David M. Fahey is Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University (Ohio). He previously served as President of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group and received a lifetime achievement award from its successor, the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. He is the author and editor of 10 books and many articles, most of them related to the temperance movement in England and the United States and to the licensed drink trade. He pioneered the study of an international fraternal temperance society called the Good Templars, through his book Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars (1996). He has written and edited many biographical works, such as E. Lawrence Levy and Muscular Judaism, 1851-1932 (2014), and has co-edited two international encyclopedias about drink, drugs, and temperance. He helped explain the decline of prohibition as an objective for temperance politicians in his article “Temperance and the Liberal Party: Lord Peel’s Report, 1899” in Journal of British Studies (1971). His more recent articles include “Temperance Internationalism: Guy Hayler and the World Prohibition Federation” in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (2006) and “Worrying about Drink” in Brewery History (2016), among others.