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Protecting the Pub
David W. Gutzke
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Protecting the Pub

Brewers and Publicans Against Temperance

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Short description/annotationReacting to attacks by temperance reformers in late Victorian England, brewers and publicans formed `the trade', a pressure group with a formidable reputation, though it surmounted internal discord only briefly to defeat the threat of probibition in the 1890s.Main descriptionReacting to attacks by temperance reformers in late Victorian England, brewers and publicans formed `the trade', a pressure group with a formidable reputation. However, in this new study, David Gutzke convincingly demonstrates that the trade's awesome reputation was exaggerated, surmounting inte...