BOOKS on PUBS

Three texts that have been written documenting the history of beer and pubs are:

An Inebriated History of Britain by Peter Haydon

This charts the history of beer drinking in Britain from AD361. Rich with detail and anecdotes it is a fascinating read.

The Local: A History of the English Pub by Paul Jennings

The evolution of the pub since 1700 set in the wider context of social change

The English Pub: A History by Peter Haydon

From the alehouse to 1990

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub Since 1700 by Anthony Cooke

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The 1970’s

Beer and Skittles by Richard Boston
The Death of the English Pub by Christopher Hutt
The Donacella Book of Pubmanship

Ronnie Corbett gives his take on pubs in the late 1960s early 1970s. And pub”man”ship it is; there is hardly a woman to be seen as a customer in the many drawings of pub life. The commentary is just misogynistic.

Pub visits by Craig Stevenson & John MacKay as they tour Scotland using their bus passes.

The Cheap Way 'Round
Roon The Edge
The Auldest Boozers in Town
Still Goin'
The Beer Hunters
In Aff the Bar
Mud Sweat and Beers

PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS

The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.

There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.

HOME MAP of places visited

Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresbourgh Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York

Heritage pubs

Historic Coaching Inns of the Great North Road by Roger Protz
Yorkshire's Real heritage Pubs
Scotland's True Heritage Pubs
Licensed to Sell
People's Palaces: Victorian and Edwardian Pubs of Scotland

Today

20th Century Pub by Jessica Boak & Ray Bailey

from Beer House to Booze Bunker
Brewers, Brands and the Pub in their Hands by Tony Thornton

Exploring the pub sectors recent past
The Pub by Pete Brown