The Snuff Journal
The snuff that saved a warship: Vigo Bay, 1702
In 1702 the exploding snuff cargo of a French fireship helped save HMS Torbay at Vigo Bay, and the captured snuff may well have spread the habit in England.
The snuff that saved a warship: Vigo Bay, 1702
In 1702 the exploding snuff cargo of a French fireship helped save HMS Torbay at Vigo Bay, and the captured snuff may well have spread the habit in England.
The Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville, where Eur...
In the 1700s much of Europe's snuff was ground by horse-powered mills in Seville's Royal Tobacco Factory, a guarded building second in size only to El Escorial.
The Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville, where Eur...
In the 1700s much of Europe's snuff was ground by horse-powered mills in Seville's Royal Tobacco Factory, a guarded building second in size only to El Escorial.
À la Civette: the Paris tobacconist named after...
À la Civette says it opened in 1716 and probably took its name from a perfumer's musk. It still sells tobacco on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.
À la Civette: the Paris tobacconist named after...
À la Civette says it opened in 1716 and probably took its name from a perfumer's musk. It still sells tobacco on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.
Sneeshin and the mull: how Scotland kept its snuff
The Scots called snuff sneeshin and kept it in a mull, from a pocket horn to a whole ram's head on wheels.
Sneeshin and the mull: how Scotland kept its snuff
The Scots called snuff sneeshin and kept it in a mull, from a pocket horn to a whole ram's head on wheels.
How snuff came to China, and why it lived in bo...
In 1684 the Kangxi Emperor sent back every gift but the snuff. This is how snuff reached China's court, and how its bottles became an art in their own right.
How snuff came to China, and why it lived in bo...
In 1684 the Kangxi Emperor sent back every gift but the snuff. This is how snuff reached China's court, and how its bottles became an art in their own right.
The night the scientists came to Wellington's s...
In July 1980 a team of London researchers took blood samples at a snuff club in Wellington, Somerset, and the reigning British champion volunteered to show them how it was...
The night the scientists came to Wellington's s...
In July 1980 a team of London researchers took blood samples at a snuff club in Wellington, Somerset, and the reigning British champion volunteered to show them how it was...