David Beckingham

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  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
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• David.Beckingham@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

The primary focus of my work has been the regulation of drinking and drunkenness, looking at the ways in which everyday urban life is shaped by forms of municipal governance such as alcohol licensing.

Ongoing research topics include the temperance movement, the regulation of drinking during the First World War, and the links between alcoholism and mental ill-health in the early years of the twentieth century.

In 2022 I was co-curator of Last Orders: Stories of Alcohol and Abstinence in the East Midlands, displayed at the Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts.

Recent Publications

• DAVID BECKINGHAM and CHARLES WATKINS, 2024. Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury Rural History.
• DAVID BECKINGHAM and JAKE HODDER, 2023. Historical Geographies: Geographical Antagonism and Archives. In: SARAH A. LOVELL, STEPHANIE E. COEN and MARK W. ROSENBERG, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography Routledge. 173-182
• JAKE HODDER and DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2022. Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies Progress in Human Geography. 46(6), 1298-1310
• DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2021. Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain Journal of Victorian Culture. 26(3), 419-434

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• DAVID BECKINGHAM and CHARLES WATKINS, 2024. Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury Rural History.
• DAVID BECKINGHAM and JAKE HODDER, 2023. Historical Geographies: Geographical Antagonism and Archives. In: SARAH A. LOVELL, STEPHANIE E. COEN and MARK W. ROSENBERG, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography Routledge. 173-182
• JAKE HODDER and DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2022. Digital archives and recombinant historical geographies Progress in Human Geography. 46(6), 1298-1310
• DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2021. Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain Journal of Victorian Culture. 26(3), 419-434
• DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2019. Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918) Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 37(8), 1434-1451
• D BECKINGHAM, 2017. “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front Geoforum. 87(December), 28-37
• D BECKINGHAM, 2017. Banning the barmaid: Time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow Social & Cultural Geography. 18(2), 117-136
• DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2017. The Licensed City: Regulating drink in Liverpool Liverpool University Press.
• D BECKINGHAM, 2015. Barmaids. In: SC MARTIN, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives 1. Sage. 214–216
• D BECKINGHAM, 2015. Liquor licensing. In: SC MARTIN, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives Sage.
• P HOWELL and D BECKINGHAM, 2015. Time-geography, gentlemen, please: Chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy Social & Cultural Geography. 16(8), 931-949
• D BECKINGHAM, 2014. The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew's 1843 temperance tour of Britain Historical Geography. 42, 93-110
• D BECKINGHAM, 2013. Scale and the moral geographies of Victorian and Edwardian child protection Journal of Historical Geography. 42, 140-151
• D BECKINGHAM, 2012. Gender, space and drunkenness: Liverpool's licensed premises, 1860-1914 Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102, 3
• D BECKINGHAM, 2011. Liverpool - 'Capital of the Binge Culture'. In: M BENBOUGH-JACKSON and S DAVIES, eds., Merseyside: Culture and Place Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 61-68
• D BECKINGHAM, 2010. An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts Journal of Historical Geography. 36(4), 388-401
• D BECKINGHAM, 2009. Geographies of drink culture in Liverpool:: Lessons from the drink capital of nineteenth-century England Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 15(3), 305-313
• D BECKINGHAM, 2009. The Irish Question and the question of drunkenness: Catholic loyalty in nineteenth-century Liverpool Irish Geography. 42(2), 125-144
• P HOWELL, D BECKINGHAM and F MOORE, 2008. Managed Zones for Sex Workers in Liverpool: Contemporary Proposals, Victorian Parallels Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33(2), 233-250