Pub, the Glossary
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.[1]
Table of Contents
390 relations: Adam and Eve, Norwich, Albert Richardson (architect), Alcohol licensing laws of Ireland, Alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom, Alcoholic beverage, Alfred Hitchcock, Allied Breweries, Ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxons, Arterial road, Association football, Augustus John, Aunt Sally, Australian pub, Aylesford, Æthelred the Unready, Bangers and mash, Bar (establishment), Bar billiards, Bardsey, West Yorkshire, Barrel, Barrister, Bass Brewery, Bat and trap, Battle of Trafalgar, BBC Radio 4, Beefeater (restaurant), Beer engine, Beer garden, Beer in England, Beer Orders, Beerhouse Act 1830, Belfast, Berni Inn, Biker bar, Blend word, Bohemianism, Bolton, Bolventor, Borough, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bowls, Brandy, Brewery, Brierley Hill, British Army, British Newspaper Archive, British royal family, Buffalo wing, Burntwood, ... Expand index (340 more) »
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Adam and Eve, Norwich
Adam and Eve is a pub in the city of Norwich, England.
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Albert Richardson (architect)
Sir Albert Edward Richardson (19 May 1880 in London – 3 February 1964) was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century.
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Alcohol licensing laws of Ireland
The alcohol licensing laws of Ireland regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol.
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Alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom
The alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol, with separate legislation for England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland being passed, as necessary, by the UK Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Scottish Parliament respectively.
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Alcoholic beverage
An alcoholic beverage (also called an adult beverage, alcoholic drink, strong drink, or simply a drink) is a beverage containing alcohol.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.
Allied Breweries
Allied Breweries was the result of a 1961 merger between Ind Coope (of Burton), Ansells (of Birmingham), and Tetley Walker (of Leeds).
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
Arterial road
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below freeways/motorways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher.
Aunt Sally
Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub gardens and fairgrounds, in which players throw sticks or battens at a ball, known as a 'dolly', balanced on top of a stick; traditionally, a model of an old woman's head was sometimes used.
Australian pub
An Australian pub or hotel is a public house in Australia, an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. Pub and Australian pub are pubs.
Aylesford
Aylesford is a village and civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, England, northwest of Maidstone.
Æthelred the Unready
Æthelred II (Æþelræd,Different spellings of this king's name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form Æþelræd. Compare the modern dialect word.; Aðalráðr; 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016.
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Bangers and mash
Bangers and mash, also known as sausages and mash, is a traditional British dish consisting of sausages and mashed potato.
Bar (establishment)
A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks. Pub and bar (establishment) are Bartending, restaurants by type and types of drinking establishment.
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Bar billiards
Bar billiards is a form of billiards which involves scoring points by potting balls in holes on the playing surface of the table rather than in pockets.
Bardsey, West Yorkshire
Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England is a small village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, north east of Leeds city centre.
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Barrel
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide.
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Barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.
Bass Brewery
Bass Brewery was founded in 1777 by William Bass in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
Bat and trap
Bat and trap is an English bat-and-ball pub game.
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
Beefeater (restaurant)
Beefeater is a chain of over 140 pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by Whitbread.
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Beer engine
A beer engine is a device for pumping beer from a cask, usually located in a pub's cellar.
Beer garden
A beer garden (German: Biergarten) is an outdoor area in which beer and food are served, typically at shared tables shaded by trees. Pub and beer garden are types of drinking establishment.
Beer in England
Beer has been brewed in England for thousands of years.
Beer Orders
The Supply of Beer (Tied Estate) Order 1989 and the Supply of Beer (Loan Ties, Licensed Premises and Wholesale Prices) Order 1989, commonly known as the Beer Orders, were statutory instruments made by the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in December 1989.
Beerhouse Act 1830
The Beerhouse Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 64) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which liberalised the regulations governing the brewing and sale of beer.
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Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
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Berni Inn
Berni Inn was a chain of British steakhouses, established in 1955.
Biker bar
A biker bar is a bar that is frequented by bikers (motorcycle riders). Pub and biker bar are types of drinking establishment.
Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Bohemianism
Bohemianism is a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations.
Bolton
Bolton (locally) is a town in Greater Manchester in England.
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Bolventor
Bolventor (Bedhasbold) is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.
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Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer (Boulonne-su-Mér; Bonen; Gesoriacum or Bononia), often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France.
Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport.
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Brandy
Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine.
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Brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.
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Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a town and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England, south of Dudley and north of Stourbridge.
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.
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British royal family
The British royal family comprises King Charles III and his close relations. Pub and British royal family are culture of the United Kingdom.
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Buffalo wing
A Buffalo wing in American cuisine is an unbreaded chicken wing section (flat or drumette) that is generally deep-fried, then coated or dipped in a sauce consisting of a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and melted butter prior to serving.
Burntwood
Burntwood is a former mining town and civil parish in the Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England, approximately west of Lichfield and north east of Brownhills.
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds, commonly referred to locally as Bury is a cathedral and market town in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.
Bypass (road)
A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, to improve road safety and as replacement for obsolete roads that no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions).
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Campaign for Real Ale
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation headquartered in St Albans, England, which promotes real ale, cider and perry and traditional British pubs and clubs.
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Canonbury
Canonbury is a residential area in London, forming part of the London Borough of Islington.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.
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Card game
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).
Carlisle
Carlisle (from Caer Luel) is a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cumbria in England.
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Casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.
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Charabanc
A charabanc or "char-à-banc" (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach, usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
Charlotte Street
Charlotte Street is a street in Fitzrovia, historically part of the parish and borough of St Pancras, in central London.
Chicken tikka masala
Chicken tikka masala is a dish consisting of roasted marinated chicken chunks (chicken tikka) in a spiced sauce.
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Chili con carne
Chili con carne is a spicy stew of Mexican origin containing chili peppers (sometimes in the form of chili powder), meat (usually beef), tomatoes, and often pinto beans or kidney beans.
Christopher Hill (historian)
John Edward Christopher Hill (6 February 1912 – 23 February 2003) was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history.
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Cider
Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples.
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City Road
City Road or The City Road is a road that runs through central London.
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England with a population of 29,678 in 2021.
Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell is an area of central London, England.
Coach and Horses, Soho
The Coach and Horses at 29 Greek Street on the corner with Romilly Street in Soho, London, is a grade II listed public house.
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Coaching inn
The coaching inn (also coaching house or staging inn) was a vital part of Europe's inland transport infrastructure until the development of the railway, providing a resting point (layover) for people and horses.
Cockle (bivalve)
A cockle is an edible marine bivalve mollusc.
Coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.
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Coleherne, Earl's Court
The Coleherne Arms 1866 public house was a gay pub in west London.
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Colin Ireland
Colin Ireland (16 March 1954 – 21 February 2012) was a British serial killer known as the Gay Slayer, because his victims were gay.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
Courage Brewery
Courage Brewery was an English brewery, founded by John Courage in 1787 in London, England.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
Craic
Craic or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.
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Cribbage
Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
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Crowborough
Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (53 km) south of London.
Crown Liquor Saloon
The Crown Liquor Saloon, also known as the Crown Bar, is a pub in Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Cue sports
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
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Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.
Darts
Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed projectiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard.
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Defence of the Realm Act 1914
The Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 29) (DORA) was passed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 1914, four days after the country entered the First World War.
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Dick Turpin
Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft.
Division bell
In some of the Commonwealth realms, a division bell is a bell rung in or around parliament to signal a division (a vote) to members of the relevant chamber so that they may participate.
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.
Dominoes
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces.
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Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
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Dr. Feelgood (band)
Dr.
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Draught beer
Draught beer, also spelt draft, is beer served from a cask or keg rather than from a bottle or can.
Drinking establishment
A drinking establishment is a business whose primary function is the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.
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Drunk driving
Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Duck pond
A duck pond or duckpond is a pond for ducks and other waterfowl.
Dun Cow
The Dun Cow is a common motif in English folklore.
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.
Earl's Court
Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.
East End of London
The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.
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EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985.
Eight-ball pool (British variation)
The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a and fifteen usually unnumbered) on a small pool table with six.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.
Emmerdale
Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV.
England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
English Civil War
The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.
Etiquette
Etiquette is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group.
Fish and chips
Fish and chips is a hot dish consisting of fried fish in batter, served with chips.
Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia is a district of central London, England, near the West End.
Fitzroy Tavern
The Fitzroy Tavern is a public house situated at Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district of central London, England, owned by Samuel Smith Old Brewery.
Flat-roofed pub
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a flat-roofed pub is a public house with a flat roof, often located on housing estates. Pub and flat-roofed pub are culture of the United Kingdom, pubs and types of drinking establishment.
Fodder
Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.
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Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist.
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.
Freehold (law)
A freehold, in common law jurisdictions such as England and Wales, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and twenty states in the United States, is the common mode of ownership of real property, or land, and all immovable structures attached to such land.
Frozen food
Freezing food preserves it from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten.
Fuller, Smith & Turner
Fuller, Smith & Turner is a public limited company based in London, England.
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Gastronomy
Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating.
Gastropub
A gastropub or gastro pub is a pub that serves food of a similar quality to a restaurant. Pub and gastropub are restaurants by type.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.
George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Gin Craze
The Gin Craze was a period in the first half of the 18th century when the consumption of gin increased rapidly in Great Britain, especially in London.
Gin palace
A gin palace (also gin house and gin shop) is an English name originally for a lavish bar selling gin, later transferred by association to late Victorian pubs designed in a similar style. Pub and gin palace are types of drinking establishment.
Godmanstone
Godmanstone (or Godmanston) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated approximately north of the county town Dorchester.
Grand Metropolitan
Grand Metropolitan plc was a leisure, manufacturing and property conglomerate headquartered in England.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
Great North Road (Great Britain)
The Great North Road was the main highway between England and Scotland from medieval times until the 20th century.
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The Greater London Authority (GLA), colloquially known by the metonym City Hall, is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London, England.
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Greene King
Greene King is a British pub and brewing company founded in 1799, currently based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Guest beer
In 1989, licensing legislation passed by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government made it possible for a tied pub to stock at least one guest beer from a different brewery.
Guild
A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.
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Guinea (coin)
The guinea (commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural) was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.
Hamburger
A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll.
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.
Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.
Herne, Kent
Herne is a village in civil parish of Herne and Broomfield, in the Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England.
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire (or; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties.
High fantasy
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta, Georgia and a brand of IHG Hotels & Resorts.
Holywell, Cambridgeshire
Holywell is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, approximately east of Huntingdon, in the civil parish of Holywell-cum-Needingworth.
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Hydraulics
Hydraulics is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
Index of drinking establishment–related articles
This is an index of drinking establishment-related articles. Pub and index of drinking establishment–related articles are pubs.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Inn
Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Pub and Inn are types of drinking establishment.
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Inns of Chancery
The Inns of Chancery or Hospida Cancellarie were a group of buildings and legal institutions in London initially attached to the Inns of Court and used as offices for the clerks of chancery, from which they drew their name.
Inns of Court
The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales.
Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for its normative problems.
Inverie
Inverie is the main village on the Knoydart peninsula in the Scottish Highlands.
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Irish pub
In Ireland, a "pub" is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. Pub and Irish pub are types of drinking establishment.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islam in the United Kingdom
Islam is the second-largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2021 Census recording just under four million Muslims, or 6.5% of the total population in the United Kingdom.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.
Jack Straw (rebel leader)
Jack Straw (probably the same person as John Rakestraw or Rackstraw) was one of the three leaders (together with John Ball and Wat Tyler) of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a major event in the history of England.
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Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead
Jack Straw's Castle is a Grade II listed building and former public house on North End Way, Hampstead, north-west London, England close to the junction with Heath Street and Spaniards Road.
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.
Jamaica Inn
The Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, which was built as a coaching inn in 1750, and has a historical association with smuggling.
Jamaica Inn (film)
Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name.
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Jamaica Inn (novel)
Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936.
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James Watson
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
John Fothergill (innkeeper)
John Rowland Fothergill (1876–1957) was an English innkeeper and entrepreneur, described as a "pioneer amateur innkeeper" in Who's Who.
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John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland KG PC (21 October 1696 – 29 May 1779) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland and Catherine Russell.
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John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby (2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770) was a British Army officer, politician and nobleman.
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John Shakespeare
John Shakespeare (– 7 September 1601) was an English businessman and politician who was the father of William Shakespeare.
Joseph Bramah
Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
Jukebox
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a patron's selection from self-contained media.
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Karaoke
Karaoke (カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
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Karaoke box
A is a type of karaoke establishment commonly found in Asia, the United States and Canada.
Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett (born Maurice James Christopher Cole; 25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English radio DJ and television entertainer.
Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
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Kilburn and the High Roads
Kilburn and the High Roads were a British pub rock band formed in London by Ian Dury in 1970.
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Kray twins
Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 193320 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 19331 October 2000) were English organised crime figures, and identical twin brothers from Haggerston, who were prominent from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968.
Lamb & Flag, Oxford
The Lamb & Flag is a pub in St Giles' Street, Oxford, England.
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Lasagna
Lasagna, also known as lasagne, is a type of pasta, possibly one of the oldest types, made in very wide, flat sheets.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Leasehold estate
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord.
Legal profession
Legal profession is a profession in which legal professionals study, develop and apply law.
Leintwardine
Leintwardine is a small to mid-size village and civil parish in north Herefordshire, England, close to the border with Shropshire.
Licensing Act 1904
The Licensing Act of 1904 was a controversial Act of the British Parliament regulating the closure of public houses (pubs) in England and Wales.
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Licensing Act 2003
The Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17) is an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.
Liquor
Liquor or distilled beverage is an alcoholic drink produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.
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Liquor license
A liquor license (or liquor licence in most forms of Commonwealth English) is a governmentally issued permit for businesses to sell, manufacture, store, or otherwise use alcoholic beverages.
List of award-winning pubs in London
This is a list of award-winning pubs in London.
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List of microbreweries
This is a list of notable microbreweries.
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List of pubs in Australia
This is a list of notable pubs in Australia.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
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Lochaber
Lochaber (Loch Abar) is a name applied to a part of the Scottish Highlands.
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Locksmithing
Locksmithing is the science and art of making and defeating locks.
Lodging
Lodging refers to the use of a short-term dwelling, usually by renting the living space or sometimes through some other arrangement.
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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Mail coach
A mail coach is a stagecoach that is used to deliver mail.
Mary II
Mary II (30 April 166228 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694.
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Meat pie
A meat pie is a pie with a filling of meat and often with other savory ingredients.
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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Merseyside
Merseyside is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in North West England.
Michael Farrar-Bell
Michael Charles Farrar Bell, later Farrar-Bell (1911–1993) was a British stained glass and postage stamp designer.
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Microwave oven
A microwave oven or simply microwave is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Millennium
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
Morning Advertiser
Morning Advertiser is one of the oldest news publications in the world, beginning as a newspaper in 1794 and being published in hard copy until 2020.
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Motel
A motel, also known as a motor hotel, motor inn or motor lodge, is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having each room entered directly from the parking area for motor vehicles rather than through a central lobby.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
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National Trust
The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town in Ontario, Canada.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
Norwich
Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.
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Norwich Cathedral
Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Nottingham
Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.
Nottingham Castle
Nottingham Castle is a Stuart Restoration-era ducal mansion in Nottingham, England, built on the site of a Norman castle built starting in 1068, and added to extensively through the medieval period, when it was an important royal fortress and occasional royal residence.
Nursery rhyme
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century.
O'Neill's (pub chain)
O'Neill's is an Irish-themed pub chain with 49 outlets in the United Kingdom.
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Old Woughton
Old Woughton is a district and civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Paraphernalia
Paraphernalia refers to a collection of items or equipment associated with a particular activity, hobby, or lifestyle.
Parking lot
A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles.
Pasty
A pasty is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles, and elsewhere through the Cornish diaspora.
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Pathé News
Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom.
Pawnbroker
A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.
Peaky Blinders (TV series)
Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight.
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Peasants' Revolt
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381.
Perseverance Tavern
The Perseverance Tavern, also known as The Percy or Persies, is a public house established in 1808 by Johannes Blesser in Cape Town.
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Pickled egg
Pickled eggs are typically hard-boiled eggs that are cured in vinegar or brine.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
Pillars of Hercules, Soho
Bar Hercules, historically the Pillars of Hercules, was a pub in Greek Street, Soho, London, originally named for the Pillars of Hercules of antiquity.
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Places in Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter universe contains numerous settings for the events in her fantasy novels.
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Ploughman's lunch
A ploughman's lunch is an English cold meal based around bread, cheese, and fresh or pickled onions.
Pool (cue sports)
Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table.
Pop Goes the Weasel
"Pop! Goes the Weasel" (Roud 5249) is a traditional English and American song, a country dance, nursery rhyme, and singing game that emerged in the mid-19th century.
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Pork rind
Pork rind is the culinary term for the skin of a pig.
Porter (beer)
Porter is a style of beer first brewed in London, England, in the early 18th century.
Potato chip
A potato chip (NAmE and AuE; often just chip) or crisp (BrE and IrE) is a thin slice of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy.
Prospect of Whitby
The Prospect of Whitby is a historic public house on the northern bank of the River Thames at Wapping, in the East End of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. Pub and pub are Bartending, Community centres, culture of the United Kingdom, pubs, restaurants by type and types of drinking establishment.
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Pub chain
A pub chain is a group of pubs or bars operating under a unified brand image.
Pub crawl
A pub crawl (sometimes called a bar tour, bar crawl or bar-hopping) is the act of visiting multiple pubs or bars in a single session.
Pub game
A pub game is one which is traditionally played inside or outside a pub.
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Pub quiz
A pub quiz is a quiz held in a pub or bar. Pub and pub quiz are culture of the United Kingdom.
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Pub rock (United Kingdom)
Pub rock is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.
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Pub song
In English popular culture, the "traditional" pub songs typified by the Cockney "knees up" mostly come from the classics of the music hall, along with numbers from film, the stage and other forms of popular music. Pub and pub song are pubs.
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Pump
A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into hydraulic energy.
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Pun
A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
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Punch Pubs
Punch Pubs & Co is a pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 1,300 leased pubs.
Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.
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Rationing
Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand.
Rebus
A rebus is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases.
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Red Lion, Westminster
The Red Lion is a Grade II listed public house at 48 Parliament Street, London SW1.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Restaurant
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers.
Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language.
Richard II of England
Richard II (6 January 1367 –), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399.
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Rights of Man
Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.
Ringing the bull
Ring a bull is a pub game.
Robert Hale (publishers)
Robert Hale Limited was a London publisher of fiction and non-fiction books, founded in 1936, and also known as Robert Hale.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman roads
Roman roads (viae Romanae; singular: via Romana; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
Rovers Return Inn
The Rovers Return Inn is a fictional public house in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street.
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 19386 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer.
Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.
Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (– 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.
Scottish & Newcastle
Scottish & Newcastle plc was a brewing company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, which expanded from its home base to become an international business with beer volumes growing almost tenfold.
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Sedgefield
Sedgefield is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England.
Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency)
Sedgefield was a constituency in County Durham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2019 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Paul Howell of the Conservative Party.
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Shellfish
Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
Shepherd Neame Brewery
Shepherd Neame is an English independent brewery which has been based in the market town of Faversham, Kent, for over 300 years.
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Shepherd's pie
Shepherd's pie, cottage pie, or in French cuisine hachis Parmentier, is a savoury dish of cooked minced meat topped with mashed potato and baked, also called Sanders or Saunders.
Shove ha'penny
Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny), also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove-groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pub game in the shuffleboard family, played predominantly in the United Kingdom.
Signage
Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message.
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Skittles (sport)
Skittles is a historical lawn game and target sport of European origin, from which the modern sport of nine-pin bowling is descended.
Slot machine
A slot machine, fruit machine (British English), poker machine or pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.
Smoking bans in the United Kingdom
A smoking ban in England, making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed workplaces in England, came into force on 1 July 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act 2006.
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Snack
A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals.
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Snooker
Snooker (pronounced) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
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Soap opera
A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.
Soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener.
Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.
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South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.
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South Hill Park, London
South Hill Park is a street in the Hampstead district of London.
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Southport
Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England.
Southwark
Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.
SpåraKoff
SpåraKoff is a HM V type tram converted into a mobile bar in Helsinki, Finland.
St Albans
St Albans is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton.
Stable
A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.
Stalybridge
Stalybridge is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census.
State Management Scheme
The State Management Scheme was the nationalisation of the brewing, distribution and sale of liquor in three districts of the United Kingdom from 1916 until 1973.
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Strip club
A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic dances.
Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner.
Students' union
A students' union or student union, also known by many other names, is a student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools.
Sub-Roman Britain
Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.
Suez Canal
The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
Suffolk
Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.
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Sun Inn
The Sun Inn is a Grade II listed, parlour pub in Leintwardine, Herefordshire, England.
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Sunday league football, is a term used in Britain, Ireland and Australia to describe the amateur association football competitions which take place on Sunday rather than the more usual Saturday.
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Sunday roast
A Sunday roast or roast dinner is a traditional meal of British origin.
Swindon railway station
Swindon railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in South West England, serving the town of Swindon, Wiltshire.
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Taberna
A taberna (tabernae) was a type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.
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Table football, also known as foosball or table soccer, is a tabletop game loosely based on association football. Its object is to move the ball into the opponent's goal by manipulating rods which have figures attached resembling football players of two opposing teams. Although its rules often vary by country and region when the game is played casually, competitive-level table football is played according to a unified code.
Tan Hill Inn
The Tan Hill Inn is a public house at Tan Hill, North Yorkshire.
Tan Hill, North Yorkshire
Tan Hill is a high point on the Pennine Way in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.
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Tavern
A tavern is a type of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. Pub and tavern are restaurants by type and types of drinking establishment.
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Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.
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Temperance bar
A temperance bar, also known as an alcohol-free bar, sober bar, or dry bar, is a type of bar that does not serve alcoholic beverages. Pub and temperance bar are Bartending, restaurants by type and types of drinking establishment.
Ten Bells
The Ten Bells is a public house at the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London.
Thame
Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of the city of Oxford and southwest of Aylesbury.
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The Angel, Islington
The Angel, Islington, is a historic landmark and a series of buildings that have stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, London, England.
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The Archers
The Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel.
The Bingley Arms
The Bingley Arms is a public house in Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and claims to be both the oldest surviving business and oldest surviving pub in the United Kingdom.
The Blind Beggar
The Blind Beggar is a pub in Whitechapel Road in the East End of London, England, at the junction with Cambridge Heath Road.
The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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The Co-operative Bank
The Co-operative Bank plc is a British retail and commercial bank based in Manchester, England.
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The Colony Room Club
The Colony Room Club was a private members' drinking club at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Double Helix
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA written by James D. Watson and published in 1968.
The Eagle and Child
The Eagle and Child, nicknamed "the Bird and Baby", is a pub in St Giles', Oxford, England, owned by the Ellison Institute of Technology and previously operated by Mitchells & Butlers as a Nicholson's pub.
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The Eagle, Cambridge
The Eagle (formerly known as the Eagle and Child) is a Grade II listed public house in Cambridge, England which opened in 1667 as a coaching inn.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a 2006 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and co-published by Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games.
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The George Inn, Southwark
The George Inn, or The George, is a public house established in the medieval period on Borough High Street in Southwark, London, owned and leased by the National Trust.
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The Good Food Guide
The Good Food Guide has been reviewing the best restaurants, pubs and cafés in Great Britain since 1951.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Inklings
The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.
The Kursaal Flyers
The Kursaal Flyers were a British pop band, formed in Southend-on-Sea in 1973.
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The Moon Under Water
"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, in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious "Moon Under Water".
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The Nutshell
The Nutshell is a pub in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, that until 2016 claimed to be the smallest pub in Britain, although this claim was challenged by several others, including the Smiths Arms at Godmanstone (since closed) and the Lakeside Inn in Southport.
The Old Ferry Boat Inn
The Old Ferry Boat Inn is a pub in Holywell, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England.
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The Olde Angel Inn
The Olde Angel Inn is a historic pub on Regent Street in the heart of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Pub and the Olde Angel Inn are pubs.
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The Pubs Code Regulations 2016
The Pubs Code etc.
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The Punch Bowl, Mayfair
The Punch Bowl, at 41 Farm Street, Mayfair, is a London public house, dating from circa 1750.
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The Queen Victoria
The Queen Victoria (more often referred to as The Queen Vic or The Vic) is the Victorian public house in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders.
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The Signal Box Inn
The Signal Box Inn is a public house in the seaside resort of Cleethorpes, United Kingdom.
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
The Tabard
The Tabard was an inn in Southwark established in 1307, which stood on the east side of Borough High Street, at the road's intersection with the ancient thoroughfare to Canterbury and Dover.
The Troubles
The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1.
Tied house
In the United Kingdom, a tied house is a public house required to buy at least some of its beer from a particular brewery or pub company. Pub and tied house are types of drinking establishment.
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game.
Tradition
A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for BoysHammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion, Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan..) is both an 1883 adventure novel and a historical novel set in the 1700s by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of "buccaneers and buried gold".
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
Wantage Code
The Wantage Code, sometimes referred to as III Æthelred (abbreviated III Atr), is an early English legal text.
Wetherspoons
J D Wetherspoon (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Whelk
Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species with a swirling, tapered shell.
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Whitbread
Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England.
Whitechapel
Whitechapel is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England.
William III of England
William III (William Henry;; 4 November 16508 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Worshipful Company of Innholders
The Worshipful Company of Innholders is one of the 111 livery companies of the City of London.
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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade II listed public house at 145 Fleet Street, on Wine Office Court, City of London.
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Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Ye Olde Cock Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at 22 Fleet Street, London EC4.
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Ye Olde Fighting Cocks
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is a public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.
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Ye Olde Man & Scythe
Ye Olde Man & Scythe is a public house on Churchgate in Bolton, England.
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Ye Olde Salutation Inn
Ye Olde Salutation Inn (nicknamed The Sal) is a Grade II listed public house, with parts dating from around 1240, which lays claim (along with Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem and The Bell Inn) to being the oldest pub in Nottingham.
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Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a Grade II listed public house in Nottingham which claims to have been established in 1189, although there is no documentation to verify this date.
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Young's
Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery Plc) is a British pub chain operating nearly 220 pubs.
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2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
Since late 2021, the prices for many essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household incomes, resulting in a fall in real incomes.
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See also
Bartending
- Alcohol laws of Utah
- Alcoholic spirits measure
- Australian Bartender magazine
- Bar (establishment)
- Bar Wizards
- Barback
- Bartender
- Bartenders
- Bartending school
- Bartending terminology
- Beer sommelier
- Beer wench
- British Institute of Innkeeping
- Cocktail waitress
- Columbia Bartending Agency
- Craft cocktail movement
- Flair bartending
- Gay day
- Goesaert v. Cleary
- Havana Club International Cocktail Grand Prix
- International Bartenders Association
- Last call
- List of glassware
- MercBar
- Mixed drinks
- Mixologist Club
- Molecular mixology
- Pub
- Six o'clock swill
- Sommelier
- Speed Rack
- Temperance bar
- Terminal Bar (bar)
- Top-shelf liquor
- Well drink
- Yangdup Lama
- Community centre
- Hackerspaces
- House of Military Officers
- Impact Hub (global network)
- Koforidua Jackson Park
- Neighborhood council
- People's House
- Pub
- Self-managed social center
- Self-managed social centers
- Senior center
- Senior centers
- Settlement houses
- Teen center
- Trades hall
Pubs
- Australian pub
- Band of Bohemia
- Birrificio Lambrate
- Cheerful Bullpen
- Desi pub
- EastBurn (restaurant)
- Flat-roofed pub
- Gastropubs
- Index of drinking establishment–related articles
- Inn sign
- Izakaya
- Micropub
- Moutere Inn
- Pub
- Pub Philosophy
- Pub chains
- Pub church
- Pub crawls
- Pub games
- Pub names
- Pub session
- Pub song
- Pub token
- Publicans
- Refik Restaurant
- Sheffield (running)
- Skeptics in the Pub
- Snob screen
- The Beerhouse
- The Cobblestone
- The Olde Angel Inn
- U Fleků
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub
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