Protecting the Pub: Brewers and Publicans Against Temperance
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Printed: 1989 Author: David W. Gutzke
Publisher: Royal Historical Society ISBN: 0861932153
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Royal Historical Society Studies in History
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Amazon Review
Reacting to attacks by temperance reformers in late Victorian England, brewers and publicans formed "the trade", the pressure group which critics depicted as a monolithic political machine with financial resources as vast as its political power, a reputation that this study demonstrates was exaggerated. This book, by making use of the archives of national and regional protective societies, demonstrates that the trade was a coalition of landlord-brewers and tied house tenants, often poorly funded and internally divided, only surmounting discord briefly to defeat the threat of prohibition in the 1890's. This study offers a useful complement to the growing body of literature on the Victorian temperance movement.