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Roll up your shirt sleeves, push back your top hat, and throw open your coat tails. It’s time to grab a bottle of gin, and seek riches or ruin as you learn about the history of gin in the Victorian era. Truly the drink of Empire…..or your personal ruin.

1. Intro What is gin?
2. Bombay Sapphire visit
3. Manufacturing, propaganda and the British vs Dutch origins debate
4. Invention is the mother of gin
5. Ah a night out in London with Dickens
6. Ruin and Empire.
7. Gin, Tonics and the growth of the cocktail.
8. Class matters – first last and always.
9. What did I make?

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