Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to pubs and alehouses. They sometimes functioned as settings for novels, facilitating … advent of the railway network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Keywords Drinking Hospitality Travel In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period which John Chartres has called … local politics. The inn, much older than the comparatively young coffee-house , was one of several types of eating and drinking venue. Chaucer's medieval Tabard, offering food and accommodation for pilgrims 2 , is the British literary …
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