“Temperance refers to the capacity to manage habits and protect against excess and is composed of forgiveness, ... Examples of effective patience interventions are plentiful.

The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians who tilted not against sin but against economic exploitation.

The most famous example of the influence of temperance is Maine Road, the former Manchester City stadium. It took its title from a road named after the 1953 American Maine Law, ...

How a city that just enacted the East Coast’s first marijuana legalization law was once at the forefront of national prohibition.

James Kneale, ‘The place of drink: Temperance and the public, 1856–1914’ (Social & Cultural Geography, 2:1, 2001) Lilian Lewis Shiman, Crusade against Drink in Victorian England (Palgrave ...

The temperance movement wanted to control drinking in Wales. Did it succeed? BBC Homepage. ... Morfa Colliery in Swansea was one example of the changing industrial face of Wales.