The Edwardian ladettes: One-eyed Kate Kibble leads rogues' gallery of boozy women barred from pubs in the 1900s

We may think of binge drinking as a distinctly modern phenomenon, but these extraordinary mugshots remind us that police have been attempting to tackle alcohol abuse for decades.The images from the early 1900s show a succession of women who were banned from their local pubs in Birmingham after being arrested and dubbed 'habitual drunkards'

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Meet the ladettes of Edwardian Britain: 'Black List' of boozy female drinkers barred from pubs for their drunken antics is revealed | Mail Online