At the risk of exposing my great ignorance can someone inform me what is the above society and its role in alcohol or temperance history. Do I just live on the wrong side of the Atlantic? or am I uninformed? BTW I have now had a copy of Harrisons 2nd Ed for a while and I agree with Dorothy Thompson's assessment of it. It has a new introduction which cites some of the recently published work, but it seems to be somewhat selective. The index is completely reorganised and the entries extended but often they do not lead to significant information on the topic. It has obviously been re-edited so it is difficult to know how much new material is there. As I am working on women in the temperance movement I was disappointed to find that he has not extended the coverage in the first edition. Margaret Barrow Margaret Barrow Joule Library UMIST, P.O. Box 88 Sackville St., Manchester M60 1QD Tel +44 61 200 4932 Fax +44 61 200 4941 email address [log in to unmask]