Excessive Tea Drinking and Insanity in Late-Victorian Belfast

Dr Ian Miller, Lecturer at Ulster University, talks about tea addiction and under-nutrition in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast and why contemporaries linked these problems to the onset of ‘insanity’ in working-class women.

Epidemic Belfast
Epidemic Belfast
Excessive Tea Drinking and Insanity in Late-Victorian Belfast
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