Synopsis

The temperance movement was woven strongly into the social and political life of Henley in Victorian and Edwardian times. This was a reaction in large part to the place of drink, in the form of malting, brewing and the number and variety of its licensed outlets back to the eighteenth century and beyond.

Michael  Redley considers what forms temperance in the town took, its heroes, the tensions it created in Henley’s politics and its decline in the years before the First World War.

The talk sets temperance against the background of the social life of Henley as it was transformed into a modern town.

Given to the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society

by Michael Redley

on 28th January 2025

To watch this recording, select:   The Temperance Movement in Henley