
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The pub has been at the heart of English life for centuries, evolving from elegant coaching houses and humble alehouses through Victorian backstreet beerhouses and 'fine, flaring' gin palaces to the drinking establishments of the twenty-first century.
In this new and revised edition, historian Paul Jennings takes us on a fascinating journey over three centuries of pub life. Set within the wider context of social change, Jennings delves into the lives of the customers who frequented them, as well as those of the men and women who ran them, and takes a closer look at their architecture and interior design. The Local has been brought up to date to record both the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on English pubs and what it tells us about pubs' continuing importance to English people.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Author
- Prefaces and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: What is a Pub?
- 2 The Evolution of the Public House 1700โ1830
- 3 The Public House and Society 1700โ1830
- 4 Free Trade in Beer 1830โ1869
- 5 The Licensed Trade 1830โ1869
- 6 Running a Pub
- 7 Customers and their World
- 8 Policing the Pub
- 9 Politics and the Pub
- 10 The First World War and the Pub
- 11 Improved Pubs and Locals 1920โ1960
- 12 Conclusion: Modern Times
- Reference Notes
- Note on Sources and Further Reading