"Where There's Drink, There's Danger"

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Stick or carrot? The early British Band of Hope temperance campaign against alcohol consumption used both tactics in their messaging to children. “Where there’s drink there’s danger.” says one lantern slide. “Abstain and be fit!” says another. They’re clever, funny, and uh, persuasive (e.g., “Which do you prefer? This Meal—or two bottles of Bass.”)

The temperance lantern slides below represent a small part of the The Livesey Collection, currently held in Preston at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Named after Joseph Livesey, an English temperance campaigner and social reformer, the collection is located where the Total Abstinence movement began in 1832.

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"Where there's drink there's danger" Band of Hope lantern slide with boy slipping on ice and man falling through ice — Published by the United Kingdom Band of Hope. Band of Hope, founded in 1847, was a children’s temperance organization that used lantern slides to warn of the dangers of drink.

Scottish Temperance Alliance lantern slide "Abstainers Have the Best of It" — Printed by Messrs McLagan & Cumming, Edinburgh, and Published by the Scottish Temperance Alliance, 226 West George Street, Glasgow, C.2

Which do you prefer? This Meal- or two bottles of Bass.

"PERSONAL LIBERTY" IN A NUTSHELL When BOOZE Is Inside SOMEBODY ELSE Is It Liable To Do YOU Any Harm? When BOOZE Is Inside YOU Is It Liable To Do SOMEBODY ELSE Any Harm? — “PERSONAL LIBERTY” IN A NUTSHELL When BOOZE Is Inside SOMEBODY ELSE Is It Liable To Do YOU Any Harm? When BOOZE Is Inside YOU Is It Liable To Do SOMEBODY ELSE Any Harm?

Illustration of Thomas Livesey’s “A New Lecture on Malt Liquor“, published in 1874. Artist & Date unknown.

Speaking Pictures : Beware of the Drink. Published by the United Kingdom Band of Hope temperance organization.

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S SLIDING SCALE. "Drink! Squabble! Swagger! Swear! and discourse fustian with one's own shadow. O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no other name to be known by, let us call thee Devil."- Shakespeare. E & SPIRITS BILLIARDS GRIPE MONEY LENT HOLLOWAY PRISON MIST DOSE & DRUG FUNERALS PERFORMED (all on buildings) — GEORGE CRUIKSHANK’S SLIDING SCALE. “Drink! Squabble! Swagger! Swear! and discourse fustian with one’s own shadow.

Anti Drink Individuals Views and Miscellaneous : There is a Little Public House. Published by the Friends Temperance Union.

Barrel dropping firebombs from the sky. Deaths from Air Raids 1915-1918: 2,051 Deaths from Alcoholism & Cirrhosis of the Liver 1915-1918: 13,852. — The Drink Raider

ALCOHOL HAS A GREAT MANY USES ALCOHOL XMAS CARD GLUE VARNISH INK HOSPITAL ETHER DRUGS SOAP FILMS — ALCOHOL HAS A GREAT MANY USES

(An Experiment) PERCEPTION LESSENED SENSATION DEADENED. - ALCOHOL, A BRAIN POISON. — Lantern slide published by the United Kingdom Band of Hope children’s temperance organization.

Lantern Slide part of the Milk Series comparing the contents of milk and stout "A wineglassful of new milk costing one third of a penny contains... ... more flesh blood nerve and bone formers than 3/4 of a pint of stout costing 71/2D. vide F.W. Richardson West Riding County Analyst" — A Wineglassful of New Milk

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The origin and success of the advocacy of the principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors: including some account of the progress of the temperance reformation

By: James Teare

The origin and success of the advocacy of the principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors: including some account of the progress of the temperance reformation, (Jan., 1846), pp. 1-32

C. Gilpin, Collection: Cowen Tracts, Part of 19th Century British Pamphlets

“To assist in the pictorial teaching of Temperance”: the use of the Magic Lantern in the Band of Hope

By: Annemarie McAllister

Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914, KINtop 3, 2016

Publisher: Indiana University Press John Libbey Publishing Series: KINtop Studies in Early Cinema