I've recently attended a meeting on this and the online version has very
good search facilities which will enable drink related biographies to be
extracted in groups.
Virginia Berridge

Virginia Berridge
Professor of History
Public and Environmental Health Research Unit
Department of Public Health and Policy
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
Tel:  0207  927 - 2269
Fax: 0207  637 - 3238
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/history



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There will be many articles on the temperance movement and the drink
trade
in the British Isles in the Oxford DNB, available on 23 September 04,
both
online and in 60 print volumes (plus a 61st volume that offers an index
of
contributors).