Author: WEBB Sidney and Beatrice
Title: The History of Liquor Licensing in England Principally from 1700 to 1830 (English Local Government Volume 11).
Description: London, Frank Cass (1903) 1963 ix, 176pp 22x15, green cloth, dw. Ex lib, remains of labels on fep, couple of stamps, dw clipped, good thus. Reprint of a Webbs tract from 1903, covering the development of licensing laws up to the 1830 Beer Act. The extent of licensed premises for the working classes was a constant preoccupation: the famous Booth Life and Labour study of poverty in London, on which Beatrice Webb worked, concluded with a map showing that Londoners appear to enjoy a greater range of pubs than places of worship or education.

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