Course: Pubs: History, Consumers, Management, and Protection

We have already said how important customers are to pubs, and without them pubs would not survive. We’re highlighted the general theme of management but we cannot overlook another important …

As you’ll have realised throughout the course, pubs in their many different guises have been in place for many hundreds of years. Changes have been gradual over the years in …

In the video I’ve highlighted some ideas about what you can do as an individual to help save pubs. But what else needs to happen? We’ve highlighted some of the …

As we’re nearing the end of the course and as we’ve shown that pubs are important to us socially and as part of our cultural heritage now we turn specifically …

The beer orders had an immediate and long lasting effect on the market structure for pubs. As can be see in the figure below the numbers of pubs overall has …

In the section on pub management we have discussed the various ways in which pubs can be managed. As Jed Meers and Liz Hind explain in their 2022 paper, tied …

The video introduced a number of reasons pubs have suffered and why pub numbers have reduced so significantly. We’ve already discussed the beer orders, which had a dramatic effect on …

In this video we’ll look at why pubs are under threat and who is trying to save them. This is a conversation we will continue in subsequent steps.

In this short video I discuss the different ways in which pubs are run and managed. Is there anything from the film that strikes you as particularly interesting, or something …

In the talking head we discussed different types of pub management introducing the main three types – a managed house, a leased/tenanted pub and a freehouse. But there is a …

Welcome to Week 3 of this short course exploring pubs. This short video will let you know what we’ll cover this week – I hope you enjoy our final activities …

So far we’ve highlighted the social aspects of pubs and have concentrated, mostly, on beer and alcohol being part of this. But an important part of the pubs for many …

As we discussed in the talking head there is no typical pub. This has lead to many writers and researchers trying to categorise pubs. One way, as we saw in …

In this video I discuss pub styles and categorisations. Is there anything that strikes you from the film you would like to comment further on?

In 1946, in an essay originally published in the Evening Standard newspaper, George Orwell outlined what his ideal Public House (or pub) should look and be like. Amongst a range …