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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Spare time: Pub culture in nineteenth century London. A social and cultural history of working class pub patronage Abstract: Serving as both a retail business and a neighborhood center, the pub was both private and a public concern, whose duality in function allowed the pub to adapt to changing economic, social, and cultural needs. Organized around two sections, this study brings us closer to appreciating working-class life on its own terms and not those of the middle class. The first part examines the pub as a site for working-class sociability. Tracing the evolution in the use of interior space, the first chapter analyzes the innovations in design and reflected a growing retail revolution designed to increase efficiency and to prevent crime. Examination of architectural plans and design information, arrest reports, and licensing data reveals that the two most significant changes were an increase in space assigned to public use and the inclusion of a bar counter. The next two chapters use newspaper accounts, trial testimony, temperance tracts, and autobiographical material to reconstruct a day in the pub, delineating the various services, activities, and entertainments that contributed to the pub's role as a social and leisure center. |
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