The Social History of Smoking: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Social History of Smoking, credited to George L. Apperson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Social History of Smoking by George L. Apperson. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has fitted in with the fashions and customs throughout the ages, and the changes in the attitude of society towards smoking. (Summary by Maikki) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Social History of Smoking
• Author credits: George L. Apperson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 7:03:38

Catalogue topics

• history
• smoking
• tobacco use
• pipes
• societal attitudes

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:37
2. 01 - The First Pipes of Tobacco Smoked in England — 27:12
3. 02 - Tobacco Triumphant: Smoking Fashionable and Universal — 27:47
4. 03 - Tobacco Triumphant (continued) Sellers of Tobacco and Professors of the Art of Smoking — 29:17
5. 04 - Cavalier and Roundhead Smokers — 20:30
6. 05 - Smoking in the Restoration Era — 22:08
7. 06 - Smoking Under King William III and Queen Anne — 29:07
8. 07 - Smoking Unfashionable: Early Georgian Days — 39:00
9. 08 - Smoking Unfashionable (Continued) — 29:14
10. 09 - Signs of Revival — 35:28
11. 10 - Early Victorian Days — 47:10
12. 11 - Later Victorian Days — 22:11
13. 12 - Smoking In The Twentieth — 19:35
14. 13 - Smoking by Women — 28:21
15. 14 - Smoking in Church — 16:59
16. 15 - Tobacconists' Signs — 26:12

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