In Our Time: The Temperance Movement

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the momentum behind teetotalism in 19th-century Britain, when calls for moderation gave way to complete abstinence in pursuit of a better life. Although arguments for temperance had been made throughout the British Isles beforehand, the story of the organised movement in Britain is often said to have started in 1832 in Preston, when Joseph Livesey and seven others gave a pledge to abstain