Here For The History
Why Do We Love Pubs?
27 August 2026
Available for over a year
How did the pub become so central to British culture?
Ben Henderson and Alice Loxton reveal how women ran medieval alehouses, how the Reformation led to a golden age of boozers, and how competition from gin produced the iconic Victorian pub.
Key Sources:
Dr Paul Jennings - The Local: A History of the English Pub.
Dr James Wright.
Dr Peter Clark.
Dr Mark Hailwood - Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England.