In 1976, the committee of a working men’s club on a new housing estate in Milton Keynes reneged on a deal to admit women as ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got hobgoblins, rogues and saliva ...

The modern idea of the prohibition-era speakeasy is distorted via cinematic fantasies of the jazz age and by hipsterish ...

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got dodgy dates, kidney beans and ...

Bristol has a huge number of pubs and a decent number of breweries. If you're in town for a few days or hours, where should ...

When musician and comedian Robin Allender asked on Twitter “What are your favourite descriptions of pubs in novels or poems?” it made us realise just how many of these we’ve collected over the years.

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got etiquette, lager yeast and snow. First, some pub heritage news. CAMRA’s hard working Pub Heritage Group ...

You can’t have cops without robbers, or Batman without the Joker, and so the story of the revitalisation of British beer needs its bad guys too. Enter Watney’s. Watney’s (or Watney Mann, or Watney ...

Courage built a lot of new pubs in the period of economic rejuvenation after World War II, as documented in a volume held at Bristol’s central library. A few weeks ago a special exhibition was laid on ...

“Which brands would have been available in an ordinary English pub of the 1950s or 1960s, including spirits and wines?” – paraphrased from correspondence To answer this, let’s pick a year; and let’s ...

This article first appeared in the Campaign for Real Ale’s quarterly magazine BEER in 2015 and is reproduced here with their permission. The original beer mat in the main image was given to us by ...