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A look at cocaine use in London's West End in the years after the First World War.
Britain’s first drug panic erupted during the First World War with lurid press reports about the use of cocaine by prostitutes in London’s West End. Cocaine possession was banned, but cocaine became the dominant drug in the jazz and nightclub scene that thrived in the years after the war. Its use by women was a source of particular alarm and was often used to illustrate how women were unable to cope with the independence they were pursuing.
Marek Kohn is the author of Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (Granta, 2001). He is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, and in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics at the University of Brighton.
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9 December 2008 at 7:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Bishopsgate Institute |
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£7, concessions £5; advance booking required |
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Call 020 7392 9220 between 9.30am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. |
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Bishopsgate Institute is two minutes walk from Liverpool Street station. |
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