{"id":1986,"date":"2021-09-28T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2021-09-29T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:59:52","slug":"public-house-a-cultural-and-social-history-of-the-london-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/public-house-a-cultural-and-social-history-of-the-london-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Public house: a cultural and social history of the London pub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/public-house-cover_540x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/public-house-cover_540x.jpg 540w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/public-house-cover_540x-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a CAMRA book but, having seen it mentioned in Time Out and, given its source, I thought that it was worth a mention. Many readers will have heard of the Open House London Festival which persuades the owners of a variety of properties not normally accessible to the public to open once a year. This year the event ran from 4 to 12 September. The organisers, Open City, have published a book called <em>Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub<\/em>. It sets out to look at, according to the publishers, the \u2018<em>diversity, design and culture of everything from Victorian gin palaces and medieval taverns to the chin-stroking craft breweries and swanky new start-ups around today. It tells stories of migration, queer activism, black history and much more, painting a hop-smelling picture of London\u2019s history through 120 pubs in all 33 boroughs<\/em>\u2019. The book has been edited by architects Cristina Monteiro and David Knight, the foreword has been contributed by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and there are articles from a wide range of people. The book was published on 4 September; cover price \u00a318.99. It can be purchased from <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.openhouselondon.org.uk\/products\/public-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open House\u2019s website<\/a> . If you do buy a copy, check out the story about the view of St Paul\u2019s from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a CAMRA book but, having seen it mentioned in Time Out and, given its source, I thought that it was worth a mention. Many readers will have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}