James Kneale is Associate Professor of Geography at University College London, UK.

Kneale has produced a well-written and illuminating study that challenges current understandings of the nature and impact of the temperance movement in the UK between 1840 and 1918. He does so by exploring a range of previously underutilized sources ... Recommended.

• SECTION 1 ORDINARY TEMPERANCEIntroduction: A man walks into a life assurance office1. Ordinary Temperance2.Temperance TownsSECTION 2 TEMPERANCE LIFE INSURANCE AS SPECULATIVE VENTURE AND SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, 1840-18503. Experiments: Thin and watery and mentally cranked4. Statistics and forms: Those that don’t drink don’t die so fast5. Networks: Proselytizing fervour, minute inquisitorial inquirySECTION 3 IMPROVING TEMPERANCE LIVES, 1850-19186. Improvement: A very business-like argument7. Ordinary lives: The Sceptre sample8. Medicine: An institution for educating the medical menCONCLUSIONS9. Temperance life assurance and the new moderationism

James Kneale is Associate Professor of Geography at University College London, UK.

Kneale has produced a well-written and illuminating study that challenges current understandings of the nature and impact of the temperance movement in the UK between 1840 and 1918. He does so by exploring a range of previously underutilized sources ... Recommended.

• SECTION 1 ORDINARY TEMPERANCEIntroduction: A man walks into a life assurance office1. Ordinary Temperance2.Temperance TownsSECTION 2 TEMPERANCE LIFE INSURANCE AS SPECULATIVE VENTURE AND SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, 1840-18503. Experiments: Thin and watery and mentally cranked4. Statistics and forms: Those that don’t drink don’t die so fast5. Networks: Proselytizing fervour, minute inquisitorial inquirySECTION 3 IMPROVING TEMPERANCE LIVES, 1850-19186. Improvement: A very business-like argument7. Ordinary lives: The Sceptre sample8. Medicine: An institution for educating the medical menCONCLUSIONS9. Temperance life assurance and the new moderationism

James Kneale is Associate Professor of Geography at University College London, UK.

Kneale has produced a well-written and illuminating study that challenges current understandings of the nature and impact of the temperance movement in the UK between 1840 and 1918. He does so by exploring a range of previously underutilized sources ... Recommended.

• SECTION 1 ORDINARY TEMPERANCEIntroduction: A man walks into a life assurance office1. Ordinary Temperance2.Temperance TownsSECTION 2 TEMPERANCE LIFE INSURANCE AS SPECULATIVE VENTURE AND SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, 1840-18503. Experiments: Thin and watery and mentally cranked4. Statistics and forms: Those that don’t drink don’t die so fast5. Networks: Proselytizing fervour, minute inquisitorial inquirySECTION 3 IMPROVING TEMPERANCE LIVES, 1850-19186. Improvement: A very business-like argument7. Ordinary lives: The Sceptre sample8. Medicine: An institution for educating the medical menCONCLUSIONS9. Temperance life assurance and the new moderationism