Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Pubs: History, Consumers, Management, and Protection
This course provided a brief history of pubs over the last 150 years, highlighting different pub designs, styles and architecture. The course also explored the consumer within the pub context, how different management styles have shaped their development, and how pubs can be saved and supported.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Victoria Wells
Professor of Sustainable Management
University of York
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify and articulate key aspects of the pub in its historical context.
- Explore and identify pub consumers and their behaviour in the pub context.
- Identify and evaluate different pub ownership methods and their implications for pub managers and staff.
- Assess the importance of pubs in the community for social sustainability.
- Reflect upon support and recommended practices used to help save pubs.
Syllabus
- A brief history of the pub: historical developments, architecture and styles.
- Pub consumers: drinking and visiting behaviour and entertainment in the pub context.
- Pub management and staff: managers, tenants and owners.
- Protecting pubs: saving an important contemporary community asset.
Issued on 12th December 2025
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