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A History of Drinking : The Scottish Pub since 1700, Paperback / softback Book

A History of Drinking : The Scottish Pub since 1700 Paperback / softback

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What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common?

They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels.

Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places.

Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year.

These and other historical issues such as temperance, together with contemporary issues, like the liberalization of licensing laws and the changing nature of Scottish pubs, are discussed in this fascinating book.

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