Women, war and drinking

Gutzke, David W.

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“…This “stringency in licensing” (Webb and Webb, 1903, pp. 88–89), combined with a reluctance to engage in the sector from other institutional investors, has put pressure on brewers themselves to secure a route-to-market by gaining control over existing licensed premises; the so-called “Brewers Wars” (Gutzke, 2014). A brewer who fails to secure outlets for their beer, risks being crowded out of the trade if other breweries beat them to it.…”

Section: Pubs Leases and “The Tie”: The Appeal Of The Lease As A Lega...mentioning

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“…This premium on pubs leads to the second problem: that cost of entry into the sector increases far beyond what the class of prospective publicans can afford (Gutzke, 2014). Overinflated capital values of pubs, a reluctance to invest by traditional credit providers, coupled with an historical concern by licensing authorities that the premises are suitable for its proposed use, leads to very significant upfront capital requirements for prospective publicans (Webb and Webb, 1903, pp.…”

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“From the lease’s point of view”: the role of tied leases in shaping the UK pub sector

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2023

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Purpose Much like their residential counterparts, commercial leases have a reputation problem. Although often derided as painfully dull and mundane documents, residential leases have begun to be interrogated by socio-legal scholarship with renewed interest. This paper aims to continue this line of work in the commercial context through a detailed examination of a widespread form of leasehold in the pub sector: the “tied lease”. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on interviews with 14 publicans and archival research. Findings The author argues that the lease is a decisive actor in determining the balance of power between publicans and pub-owning companies and shaping the physical environment of pubs in the UK. Originality/value The author’s broader agenda is to argue that socio-legal scholars’ renewed interest in leases should not be confined to the residential context: commercial leases warrant far greater socio-legal scholarly attention.

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Section: Pubs Leases and “The Tie”: The Appeal Of The Lease As A Lega...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“From the lease’s point of view”: the role of tied leases in shaping the UK pub sector

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2023

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“…24 Arthur Sherwell, Life in West London: a study and a contrast, (London: Methuen, 1901), 130-6; Gutzke, "'The Cry of the Children,'" 72. engaged in sex work. 25 Some middle-class social reformers tried to bar prostitutes from pubs entirely, most notably in Liverpool, but undoubtedly in other parts of the country as well. 26 Yet these attempts to make pubs more ostensibly moral did not detract from their perception of immorality.…”

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“…This remained true throughout the late Victorian period and up until the First World War, from which time middle-class and upper working-class women began to patronize pubs in previously unseen numbers throughout Britain. 25 One major reason that pubs were seen as unsuitable for "respectable" women came from associations between women drinking in public and prostitution. Historians of gender and sexuality have offered useful theoretical outlines for thinking about how women in public were perceived.…”

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From Drunken Woman to Female Inebriate? Drinking as Vice, Crime, Sin or Disease in Victorian and Edwardian London

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This thesis examines women’s drinking and drunkenness in Victorian and Edwardian London between c. 1878 and 1914. It charts the ways in which drunkenness, or inebriety, was condemned and how it generated anxiety from reformers and commentators. The thesis examines how inebriety was discussed in contemporary papers and commentary in order to explore the ways it was understood by Victorian and Edwardian society. It utilises newspapers, medical literature and political debates and discourses to shed light on why the female inebriate was perceived as a particular cause of concern, more so than her male counterpart. It also uses studies on working-class identities to examine how women’s drinking was seen as a key component of urban degeneration, and how concerns around women and the working classes heightened anxieties around the visibility of drunkenness as vice. It applies lenses of gender and class analysis to examine how emphasising the need for control and the idea of degeneration made the female inebriate a complex figure, particularly in terms of mental illness, participation in public life, morality and sexuality. It argues that control of female inebriety was elicited through both physical and rhetorical methods, but that both demonstrated a willingness to move away from simple criminalisation. This thesis charts the shift from viewing women’s drunkenness as a crime to seeing female inebriety as a disease, but argues that though this shift occurred, it was made complex and even undermined by discourses around femininity and social and cultural degeneration. Existing scholarship acknowledges that because there was no consensus on how to categorise inebriety itself, it was difficult to diagnose the inebriate. This thesis extends this categorisation by arguing that the figure of the female inebriate complicated the idea of whether drunkenness was a cause or a symptom of social degeneration, and therefore made “solving” inebriety a particularly difficult problem.

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Women, war and drinking

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“From the lease’s point of view”: the role of tied leases in shaping the UK pub sector

“From the lease’s point of view”: the role of tied leases in shaping the UK pub sector

From Drunken Woman to Female Inebriate? Drinking as Vice, Crime, Sin or Disease in Victorian and Edwardian London

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