The Pub

For many people – natives and tourists – the pub is the very image of British national social life. The traditional atmosphere of the English pub, with its informality and all-round cosiness, has made it an internationally unique institution.
The occupying forces of the Roman army established the first places that sold food and wine to travellers. These were succeeded in later centuries first by alehouses, and then by roadside inns that catered for those undertaking long journeys for reasons of business or Christian pilgrimage. The era of horse-drawn coach travel made the inns altogether more splendid, and then there were the Victorian gin palaces...up to the present-day theme pub.
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