- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: English Heritage (7 Dec 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185074906X
- ISBN-13: 978-1850749066
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 19 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 550,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The pub is one of Britain's great institutions, loved at home and envied abroad. For hundreds of years it has offered refreshment and pleasure to communities throughout the land. The traditional pub, as we know it, was largely a Victorian creation but since the 1960s it has been subject to rapid and often insensitive change. Consequently, fewer than 4 per cent of the country's pubs now have interiors of any signifcant historic value. This books shows how important it is to preserve this unique heritage. It describes the long and interesting history of the public house and reveals how changing attitudes are reflected in its design and planning. From simple country pubs to those shimmering with vivid tiles, painted glalss and gilded woodwork, this book describes them all. It is packed with information on brewing, temperance and legislation as well as a section on the pub mythology that describes the tall tales told about pubs! With over 300 illustration, including specially commissioned colour photographs and plans, this book is a celebration of a treasured British institution.
About the Author
Geoff Brandwood is an expert on public houses and their history, and is the pubs caseworker for CAMRA. He is also chairman of the Victorian Society.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book so much - it was a birthday present from a friend who always struggles to buy for me. The illustrations of pub interiors are dazzling and the accompanying text (although not in the least academic) is interesting, lively and perfectly suited for book and its subject. The book covers not just pubs but also the history of brewing and drinking culture.
Great Christmas pressie for the bloke who isn't so much into reading but appreciates books and pubs and booze!
Great Christmas pressie for the bloke who isn't so much into reading but appreciates books and pubs and booze!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
No lover of unspoilt pubs should be without this book. The photographs by Michael Slaughter are superb. The book is closely allied to the Campaign for Real Ale National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. CAMRA is doing fantastic work in this area. Buy the book, read it, spread the word.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of those wonderful books to take to the pub sometime when you've got a spare hour or two. Between the lines here there is an unintentional analysis of why alcohol caught on as the world's number one drug. But that's hardly the point of the book. You would guess that it's good from the fact that it has a foreword by the author Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything). Its exploration of pub folklore and history had me saying to my mother, 'Let's go and sit in the tap room' and having her look at me in amazement as I am a child of the alcopop world. The best thing about it is that it has a guide to historic or special pubs all around the British Isles, so you will at last be set free from thinking that the only famous pub you know is the one where the Kray twins shot someone in the East End in the 1960s.
The battle between a parched population (sometimes incredibly so - navvies on a Friday, for instance) and a Government determined to keep the masses sober, is expertly recorded. In the 19th century, when regulation comparable to today's was brought in, the debate between 'toxic' gin and 'wholesome' beer explodes.
However, it is interesting to see that the rise in the use of alcohol, necessitating regulation, coincided with the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Call this pseudy, but this recognition by the author of this book coincides with Michel Foucault noting that there were no lunatic asylums built in Europe until the Industrial Revolution had produced its definitions of troublemakers and 'proper people' - i.e. those who worked and gave their slavish co-operation to the evil new regime. Etc.
The subject, and the book, seem to grow more interesting with each successive pint . . .
Hmm.
The battle between a parched population (sometimes incredibly so - navvies on a Friday, for instance) and a Government determined to keep the masses sober, is expertly recorded. In the 19th century, when regulation comparable to today's was brought in, the debate between 'toxic' gin and 'wholesome' beer explodes.
However, it is interesting to see that the rise in the use of alcohol, necessitating regulation, coincided with the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Call this pseudy, but this recognition by the author of this book coincides with Michel Foucault noting that there were no lunatic asylums built in Europe until the Industrial Revolution had produced its definitions of troublemakers and 'proper people' - i.e. those who worked and gave their slavish co-operation to the evil new regime. Etc.
The subject, and the book, seem to grow more interesting with each successive pint . . .
Hmm.
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