NewStatesman: What ever happened to snuff?
Snuff hit Britain at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Ben Duckworth discovers that it never really left.
Art from the George Arents Collection on Tobacco
Hundreds of prints relating to tobacco, from an exceptional extra-illustrated copy of Fairholt's Tobacco: Its History and Lore (1859).
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas de Quincey
Historical Research on Drug Policy
1800 - 1850
Regency Personality Sara Coleridge Wife of an Opium Eater By Cheryl Bolen
History of Opium and Tincture of Laudanum by Suzi Love from Historical Hearts. Opium has a long history of use, spread across many countries. Long before China supplied the West with opium, Turkey was providing opium.