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British coffee and deli chain put into "administration"

Coffee Republic, a British coffee and deli chain, is struggling during the recession.  It has been put in "administration."  For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on July 7, 2009 at 07:14 PM in Britain, Coffee, Drinking Spaces | Permalink

India pale ale (book)

Pete Brown, Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer that Built the British Empire (London: Macmillan, 2009).  The original India pale ale.

Posted by David Fahey on July 6, 2009 at 07:29 PM in Beer, Books, Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Brewing in Britain (article)

Geoff Dye, "Notes on Pressure Fermentation," Brewery History 131 (2009): 19-23.

Posted by David Fahey on July 6, 2009 at 07:25 PM in Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Brewing beer in Croydon for 350 years (article)

Herbert Shaw, "A Croydon Brewery," Brewery History 131 (2009): 2-18.  Operating under various names from 1586 (or earlier) to 1936.

Posted by David Fahey on July 5, 2009 at 08:32 AM in Brewing , Britain | Permalink

Liverpool public house (book)

 Alistair Mutch, The Liverpool pub: a cultural and business history (Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2008).

Posted by David Fahey on June 19, 2009 at 09:49 AM in Books, Britain, Drinking Spaces | Permalink

Drink Talking (book)

Drink Talking : 100 Years of Alcohol Advertising. by Penny Dade, (Series: Library of historic advertising) [London]: Middlesex University Press, 2008. 160p. Here's the link to the publisher's webpage for the book.

Posted by Dave Trippel on June 16, 2009 at 09:13 PM in Advertising, Alcohol (general), Books, Britain | Permalink

Alistair Mutch replies to David Gutzke re the English public house (article)

Alistair Mutch, "Theories and Evidence: A Response to David Gutzke, 'Progressivism and the History of the Public House, 1850-1950'," Cultural and Social History--The Journal of the Social History Society 5/2(2008): 219-26.

Mutch, the author of several articles about the English public house, had been criticized by Gutzke in his book and elsewhere.

Posted by David Fahey on June 14, 2009 at 09:39 AM in Britain, Drinking Spaces | Permalink

7 New Emerging Wine Regions

Global warming is partly responsible for emerging grape growing regions according to an article by Simon Majumdar at AskMen.com - here is the link.

Posted by Dave Trippel on June 3, 2009 at 12:01 AM in Alcohol (miscellaneous), Brazil, Britain, Canada, Greece, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine, Wine | Permalink

Smoking and feminine modernity (article)

Penny Tinkler and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh,  "Feminine Modernity in Interwar Britain and North America: Corsets, Cars, and Cigarettes," Journal of Women's History 20/3 (2008): 113-43.



Posted by David Fahey on June 1, 2009 at 03:41 PM in Britain, Canada, Tobacco, United States | Permalink

Tobacco and authority in Caroline England (article)

Todd Butler, "Power in Smoke: The Language of Tobacco and Authority in Caroline England," Studies in Philology 106/1 (Winter 2009): 100-118.

Posted by David Fahey on May 25, 2009 at 12:36 PM in Britain, Tobacco | Permalink