Pub by Howell, Philip;

Series: Object Lessons;

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Product details:

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 20 February 2025
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9798765102312
Binding Paperback
No. of pages160 pages
Size 164x116x14 mm
Weight 120 g
Language English

Short description:

Pub takes the English public house apart, showing how its separate elements work, and reassessing the pub's history and cultural significance.

Long description:

""Erudite, quirky, and amusing."" Sebastian Faulks

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of ""time."" But Pub also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.