A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700

ISBN-13: 9781474407625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 280 str.

Anthony Cooke

Opis

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. The book is bought up to the present day by a case study of present day licensees, based on interviews with a range of licensees across Scotland, looking at their experience of the trade and how it has changed in their working lives.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - ‘Bousing at the nappy’ – Scottish pubs and changing drinking patterns, 1700-1790; Chapter 3 - ‘Politeness and agreeable conviviality’ – Scottish Pubs and Increasing Social Segregation, 1790-1830; Chapter 4 - ‘People’s Palaces’ – Urbanisation, temperance and responses, 1830-1914; Chapter 5 - ‘Serious Attacks on the Trade’ - The Two World Wars and the Inter-War Period, 1914-1945; Chapter 6 - ‘A place of rules and rituals’ – Austerity and Regulation, Liberalisation and Change, 1945 to the Present; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Bibliography; Index.