Joseph Livesey, who became known as the 'John the Baptist of Teetotalism', founded the Preston Temperance Movement in 1832 ...

A town whose inn was famously called "the pub without beer" features in a new book about buildings in the temperance movement ...

Millions of people trying to cut out alcohol for Dry January may not realise they are following in the footsteps of a 19th ...

Two buildings in Cornwall, the Teetotal Hall in Penryn and the former Lamb Coffee Tavern in Redruth, and two buildings in ...

But these booze-free billiard venues, meeting rooms and music halls built in the 19th Century by those championing sobriety ...

This video is no longer available. D.C. is a town of monuments — and some of them are hiding in plain sight. In this week’s edition of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax decided to learn the ...

The Middleton-in-Teesdale fountain is featured in a new book, The Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement: The Way Out of Darkest England, published by Historic England and Liverpool University ...

Alice Hoover of Coshocton was born in Crawford County and her mother, Mildred Marshal Heft, was from Corning. Heft served with the Women's Temperance Christian Union and gave speeches in the 1930s at ...

CHARLEVOIX — One hundred and fifty years ago, the May 16, 1874 Charlevoix Sentinel reported that “The cable across the Straits has been repaired.” A cable across the Straits of Mackinac? A quick ...

The Granville Historical Society is presenting "Songs of the American Temperance Movement: 1865-1920," in a program on Feb. 29 at 7 p.m. at Seek-No-Further Cidery. The program will be presented by ...

Adna Hecox, who preached the first Protestant sermon in California, was living in Soquel when he established the state’s first Temperance Society in 1847. It was a self-help order where one “took the ...

Explore the historical significance of the Derby Temperance Hall, a testament to the 19th-century social movement against ...