Forgotten Temperance Reformers

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).