Author : John Gorevan
Publisher : Tempus Pub Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752427591
In this book, John Gorevan traces the history of some of Glasgow's most well-known and historic pubs and their proprietors, and discusses their role as meeting places for some of the city's most important, as well as most regular, citizens.
Author : Rudolph Kenna
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781897784488
This is a companion to over 150 of Glasgow's pubs which encompass the old, the traditional and the newer style pubs. Details on each pub accompany a photo of the same with listings of amenities, ales and spirit selection. A full introduction to the historical aspects of the city's hostelries is accompanied by archive photographs although the essence of the book is modern, to allow today's pub goer, visitor and tourist alike to enjoy the best the city has to offer.
Author : Mass Observation
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0571280846
Mass Observation was founded in 1937 with the aim of researching the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. One of its best-loved publications is The Pub and the People (1943), a unique study of one of Britain's best-loved pastimes, describing how people behaved in pubs, what and how much they drank, and the decor and layout of the average pre-war alehouse. Alongside sociological interest it offers amusing insights into an era when supping pints was only for the roughest customers, and beer was considered helpful not only to general health ('There is no bad ale, so Grandma said') but also (contra the porter in Macbeth) to the act of love. 'The authors of this book have unearthed much curious information.' George Orwell, Listener 'Anyone with an interest in the history of beer and pubs in Britain ought to read it.' Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog
Author : Anthony Cooke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1474400132
This book examines continuity and change in the functions of Scottish drinking places.
Author : Etta Dunn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445638878
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Central Glasgow has changed and developed over the last century.
Author :
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781840222661
For hundreds of years, the public house in its many guises, from urban gin palace to wayside coaching inn, has been a charming and quintessential feature of British life, and hence the names and signs associated with pubs are a constant reminder of our history, cultural heritage, folklore and local identity.The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pub Names is a fascinating compilation containing nearly five thousand absorbing entries and can be dipped into for fun or consulted on a serious level for intriguing and amusing information not readily available elsewhere. The local pub is an institution unique to the British Isles, but since English literature abounds with references to hostelries past and present, real and imagined, and no tourist's itinerary is complete without a visit to one or several on their route, its virtues are celebrated worldwide and readers everywhere will enjoy an affectionate and, perhaps, nostalgic browse through the pages of this entertaining dictionary.
Author : Thora Hands
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 331992964X
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.
Author : James Campbell Irons
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 1876
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Cairney
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1913025845
This is a book about Glasgow, but not your everyday history book. Glasgow by the way, but is a contemporary series of essays examining different aspects of Glasgow in a historical and cultural context, revealing a unique, amusing and sometimes critical, perspective of Cairney's beloved city. Those who remember John Cairney's performances and have read his other books will enjoy the insightful anecdotes from Cairney's career.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN :
