Forgotten Temperance Reformers

About David M. Fahey

David M. Fahey is Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University (Ohio). He served as president of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group and received a lifetime achievement award from its successor the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Specializing on temperance and drink in England and America he published many articles and books such as Temperance and the Liberal Party--Lord Peel's Report 1899 in Journal of British Studies (1971) Brewers Publicans and Working-Class Drinkers: Pressure Group Politics in Late Victorian and Edwardian England in Histoire sociale (1980) Temperance and Racism: John Bull Johnny Reb and the Good Templars (1996) Worrying about Drink in Brewery History (2016) Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (2020) and The Politics of Drink in England from Gladstone to Lloyd George (2022). He has written and edited drink-related biographies such as E. Lawrence Levy and Muscular Judaism 1851-1932 (2014) and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals. He co-edited two alcoholic drink historical encyclopedias (2003 and 2013).