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The local: A history of the English pub (The History Press, 2021). Jennings, Paul. "Liquor Licensing and the Local Historian: The Victorian Public House." Local Historian 41 (2011): 121–137. Martin, John (1993). Stanley Chew's Pub Signs: a celebration of the art and heritage of British pub signs. Worcester: John Martin. ISBN 1-85421-225-7.
The Moon Under Water, Watford.One of many pubs named after Orwell's description. "The Moon Under Water" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the Evening Standard on 9 February 1946, [1] in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious "Moon Under Water".
Taverns in North America date back to colonial America. Colonial Americans drank a variety of distilled spirits. Colonial Americans drank a variety of distilled spirits. As the supply of distilled spirits, especially rum , increased, and their price dropped, they became the drink of choice throughout the colonies. [ 1 ]
The earliest parts of the building date from the late 13th century or early 14th century. there are written records of the pub from the 1700s, but the building is known to be much older than that. It was built using rubble with a slate roof. At each end of the building there is a brick chimney.
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
The rejected assumption, which is the foundation of A Patriot's History, is that there are principles and purposes reflected in American history that make this imperfect country worthy of our affection, and that honest history should explain those principles and illustrate those purposes as the centerpiece of our nation's story." [4]
In his review for The Atlantic, Timothy J. Gilfoyle called the book "the most comprehensive examination to date of the city's history prior to 1900," saying that "Gotham may rank in importance with the multi-volume works on Thomas Jefferson by Dumas Malone and on the Civil War by Allan Nevins," [3] while Clyde Haberman in The New York Times wrote that "Burrows and Wallace offer a large-canvas ...
The American literary critic Edmund Wilson, in his book O Canada, described Parkman's France and England in North America in these terms: "The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman's narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art."