… and in cities. They also 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 … The alehouse was a ‘place of popular drinking’ 3 , frequented by less affluent customers and those lower down in the hierarchy, while the tavern, where drink was sold, too, seems to have been considered more respectable (Clark 5, 12). As … Nineteenth Centuries (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014), p. 59-70. 9 . Daniel Maudlin, ‘The Urban Inn: Gathering Space, Hierarchy and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century British Town‘, Urban History (vol. 46, no. 1, 2019), p. 1-32, p. …