Pub History Society Bibliography of Publications relating to Public Houses, Inns and Taverns

Title

Author

Publisher

Town / Village Covered

ISBN

Year

Notes

PHS Ref Number

Barnet's Pubs

Richard Selby

Barnet and District Local History Society, Barnet Museum, 31, Wood St., Barnet, EN5 4BE

Barnet

0 9525988 0 9

L40010

A-Z of Enfield Pub's. Part 1 - Eastern & Western Enfield plus Monken Hadley

Gary Boudier

Enfield / Monken Hadley

none

2000

348 pg.

L40011

Pubs 2000. Recommended Pubs in and Around Greenwich.

CAMRA

CAMRA

Greenwich

2000

SE London Branch

L40012

Down at the Old Bull and Bush.

Clive Smith

Hampstead

Short pamphlet recounting the history of a Hampstead tavern, licensed since 1721.

L40013

London Inn Signs

Dominic Rotheroe

Shire Publications

London

0 7478 0088 X

1990

1st Ed

L40014

Taverns in Town

Michael Roulstone

Balfour/Travellers Rest Publications

London

0 85944 001 X

1973

1st Ed

L40015

Croyden & It's Pubs - 1-A Brief History

Peter Walker

Peter Walker

London

1999

L40016

Pubs of North Lambeth - A Street Corner Guide to the Pubs of Waterloo, Kennin gton & Vauxhall Yestreday and Today.

Peter Walker

Peter Walker

London

1 871934 00 1

1989

L40017

An Alphabet of English Inn Signs by John Taylor the 'Water Poet' 1636.

W E Tate

Frank Graham, 6 Queens Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne

London

900409 80 0

1968

Inn signs in london

L40018

Historic Pubs of London

Brunning

London

L40019

Bexley Pubs, the history of your local

Jim Packer

Bexley Libraries & Museums

London

0 902541 33 1

1995

Very readable history of the pubs around Bexley.

L40020

Barking Pubs, Past & Present

Clifford

London

L40021

Dagenham Pubs, Past & Present

Clifford

London

L40022

Known Treasures & Hidden Gems - A Guide to the Pubs of London

Haydon

London

L40023

Walford's History of Southwark Inns - Reprint of Original 1878 book by Edward Walford

Brown

London

L40024

Book of The Cheese. Being traits and stories of "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese", London

London

1937

L40025

Quest of the Golden Lion - Hammersmith and Fulham

John James Murray

56 Palewell Park, London SW14 8JH

London

1981

L40026

Inns of Old Southwark and their associations

William Rendle / Philip Norman

Longmans and Co

London

1888

L40027

Old Inns of London

Louis Thomas Stanley

B. T. Batsford

London

1957

L40028

An Old London Alehouse: the Anchor, at Bankside

Thomas Burke

True Temperance Association: London

London

1932

L40029

Examples of Coffee House, Tavern, and Tradesmen's Tokens, current in London in the seventeenth century

John Yonge Akerman

London

1847

Reprinted from "The Numismatic Chronicle". References to tavern tokens.

L40030

A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders', Tavern, and Coffee-house Tokens current in the seventeenth century.

London

1853

Presented ... by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufry ... By Jacob Henry Burn. [With a portrait of the donor.]. Tokens.

L40031

Tavern Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, &c. intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins. By one of the old School [W. West].

London

1825

L40032

History of "Ye George and Vulture Tavern". One of London's oldest inns

Henry Chance Newton

London

1909

L40033

London Pubs

Reeve-Jones

London

1966

L40034

Back to the Local

Maurice Gorham

Percival Marshall & Co., London

London

none

1949

comical guide to the"local"

L40035

A Circumstantial and Authentic Account of a late unhappy affair which happened at the Star and Garter Tavern, in Pall Mall. By a person present.

London

1765

An account of a duel fought between William Chatworth and William, 4th Lord Byron

L40036

The Glory of the Sun-Tavern behind the Exchange at London. (In verse)

London

1672

L40037

A True Account of the celebrated secret of Timothy Beaghan lately killed at the Five Bells Tavern in the Strand, famous for curing the King's-Evil. In a letter to ... W. Cowper, Surgeon

Maurice Tobin

London

1697

L40038

A full and true account of a sad and dreadful fire, that broke out on Saturday night last near 12 a clock, at the Fountain-Tavern in the Strand, and burnt down above fifty houses, etc. Full & true account.

D Brown

London

1708

L40039

Tavern singing in early Victorian London. The diaries of Charles Rice for 1840 and 1850. edited, with an introduction and notes by Laurence Senelick

Charles Rice. 1817-1876

London

L40041

The Fitzroy. The autobiography of a London tavern. Sally Fiber's story of the Fitzroy as told to Clive Powell-Wiliams

Sally Fiber

Temple House Books

London

1 857760239

1995

L40042

The George and Vulture in Pickwick papers. By Cedric Charles Dickens

Cedric Dickens

London

1995

L40043

A history of the Museum Tavern in Bloomsbury

John N Henderson

Blemund's Books

London

095149130X

1989

L40044

Old London Coaching Inns and their Successors

Arthur William Groom

London Midland & Scottish Railway Co

London

1928

L40045

Inns and Taverns of Old London. Setting forth the historical and literary associations of those ancient hostelries, together with an account of the most notable coffee-houses, clubs, and pleasure gardens of the British metropolis

Henry Charles Shelley

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons

London

1909

L40046

Illustrations of the site and neighbourhood of the New Post Office. Comprehending antiquarian notices of St. Martin's-le-Grand and its Liberty ...

W. Herbert

Smales & Tuck

London

1830

With an appendix containing an account of the Antient Mourning Bush Tavern, Aldersgate, and various London taverns, & its contemporaries.

L40047

A History of "Dirty Dick." A Legend of Bishopsgate Without: Ye Old Wein House of Dirty Dick

Nathaniel Bentley

London

1960's

L40048

The Bucket of Blood

British Heritage 3 No. 3

London

1982

British Heritage 3 No. 3 (1982): 46-8. History of a late Stuart pub in London, originally known for its bareknuckle boxing and now called the Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden.

L40049

Old London Taverns: Historical, Descriptive and Reminiscent, with Some Account of the Cofee Houses, Clubs, etc

Edward Callow

Downey

London

1899

Short, detailed and antiquarian historical vignettes of about 150 taverns

L40050

The Spur Inn, Southwark

George R Corner

London

1856

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 1 (1856): 70-76.

L40051

The Bride. Spirit of an Age

Dan Cruickshank

London

1991

Architects' Journal (2-9 Jan. 1991): 22-7. Discusses the history of the Architectural Press Offices at Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, and the renowned pub, the Bride of Denmark

L40052

The Half Moon Tavern, Cheapside, and City Politics

I G Doolittle

London

1977

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 28 (1977): 328-32. Explores the late 17th and 18th centuries

L40053

Ye Angel in Boots; a Legend of Bucklersbury, which recounteth what befell ye lively one, and ye sad fate of young Joey Garrotte for being found in the companie of one Thompson ye Witt ... and the tavern thereby

Mon-Nittor aka J. C. G. Bennett

Privately printed: London

London

1864

L40054

The White Hart [Inn], Bishopsgate

C W F Goss

London

1933

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 6 (1933): 257-83. Discusses the archaeological history, owners and tenants of London's oldest inn, built ca. 1400.

L40055

The London Tavern: A Forgotten Concert Hall.

Alec Hyatt King

Musical Times

London

1986

Musical Times 127: 382-85. Explores architectural features of the tavern, built in 1767-68 and demolished in 1876, and artists who performed there in first half of the 19th century.

L40056

The Trafalgar Tavern London:

Hurford Janes

Mann, Crossman & Paulin,

London

1965

Short pamphlet, held by Guildhall Library, retelling the history of the Greenwich pub.

L40057

The George Inn, Southwark. London

William Kent

William Kent

London

1932

Short pamphlet, held by Georgetown University, examining the history of the famous London galleried inn.

L40058

The George Inn, Southwark: A Survival of the Old Coaching Days.

Matz

London

1918

Short pamphlet held by the University of California-Davis, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Guildhall Library.

L40059

George Inn. Some Notes on the 18th Century Structure.

J. Gilbert Meaden

London

1938

Journal of the London Society 244 (1938): 86-8. Examines the layout and description of the George Inn, Southwark, in 1849, with some historical background.

L40060

The Inns of Old London.

Philip Norman

London

1908

In Memorials of Old London. 2 vols. Edited by P.H. Ditchfield. 2:113-34. Focuses on 15-16th century inns with galleried courtyards.

L40061

The Abbot's Inn' in Medieval London

Charles Pendrill

London

1939

National Review 113 (1939): 500-10.

L40062

The Aristocratic Inns of Old London.

London

1944

National Review 122 (1944): 320-29, 422-29; 123 (1944): 68-76.

L40063

Pubs of Tower Hamlets.

Tony Phillips

London

1988

Short pamphlet with many photogaphs of outstanding architectural features.

L40064

Traits and Stories of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London, EC.

Thomas Wilson Reid,(ed).

London: B.A. Morre,

London

1886

[Rev. ed.: Graham, William Hussey. The Book of the Cheese; Being Traits and Stories of `Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese,' Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London. 3rd ed., 1896. See L40025.

L40065

The Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, with Some Account of the Parish of St. Michael's, Crooked Lane.

Kenneth Rogers

London: Homeland Association,

London

1928

Short, competent history of an inn made famous by Shakespeare.

L40066

The Kings's Head Tavern, Leadenhall Street.

London

1928

London Topographical Record 14 (1928): 36-48. Discusses its location.

L40067

The Mitre Tavern in Fenchurch Street: A Favourite House of Samuel Pepys."

Kenneth Rogers

London

1929

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 5 (1929):256-68. History of the London tavern, 1590s-1840s, focusing on Daniel Rawlinson, who ran it when Pepys made visits.

L40068

A London Tavern in 1644.

D Shanahan

London

1959

Transactions of the London and Middlexex Archaeological Society 20 (1959): 194-97. Inventory of Thomas Langton, proprietor of the Mitre Tavern, Strand.

L40069

Old City Taverns and Masonry.

Percy J Simpson

London

1906

Ars Quator Coronatorum, Being the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076, London 19 (1906): 8-30. This and two articles below contain snippets of history of 18th century inn linked with masonry. L40070-72 also relate.

L40070

Some Old London Taverns and Masonry.

London

1907

Ars Quator Coronatorum, Being the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076, London 22 (1907): 28-46. Contain snippets of history of 18th century inn linked with masonry. L40070-72 also relate.

L40071

Some Old Suburban Taverns and Masonry.

London

1908

Ars Quator Coronatorum, Being the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076, London 21 (1908): 38-57 Contain snippets of history of 18th century inn linked with masonry. L40070-72 also relate.

L40072

An Old London Ale House: The Anchor, at Bankside. Some British Inns No. 13

Thomas Burke

London

True Temperance Association Series. Short undated pamphlet with photographs, probably published late in 1920s or in the 1930s.

L40073

The Old Inns of London

Louis Thomas Stanley

Batsford

London

1957

Alphabetical list of 108 inns with short historical commentary.

L40074

Black Friar

Nicholas Taylor

London

1964

Architectural Review 136 (1964): 373-76. Describes the architectural features of a pub, located on Queen Victoria Street, London, and rebuilt in 1905 which William Morris' philosophy inspired.

L40075

Lodge No. 94 at the Ben Jonson's Head [Spitafields, London]

John T Thorp

London

1911-12

Transactions of the Lodge of Research, No. 2429, Leicester (1911-12): 72-7.

L40076

The Goose and Gridiron, St. Paul's Churchyard

W J Williams

London

1926

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 5 (1926): 276-80. Discusses a small alehouse where the Grand Masonry Lodge of England was first organized in 1717.

L40077

Pubs of London

Alka-Seltzer Smith. R. M.

Baynard, London

London

ISBN 0 214-20346-8

1978

L40078

Nicholson: London Pub Guide [3rd Edition]

Allan. Judy (Compiler)

Robert Nicholson Publication

London

ISBN 0-948576-13-8

1987

L40079

Nicholson: London Pub Guide [4th Edition]

Allan. Judy (Compiler)

Robert Nicholson Publication

London

ISBN 0-7028-1321-4

1990

L40080

Historic Pubs of London

Bruning. Ted

Prion

London

ISBN 1-85375-365-3

2000

L40081

The Best Pubs in London

CAMRA,BestPubs Protz. Roger

Alma Books Ltd.

London

ISBN 1-85249-014-4

1989

L40082

Discovering London's Inns & Taverns

John Wittich

Shire Publications

London

0 85263 757 8

1986

2nd Ed

L40083

Barking Pubs Past and Present

Clifford. Tony

London Borough of Barking

London

ISBN 0-900325-25-9

1995

L40084

A selection of Londons most interesting Pubs.

Gammell. David

Woodfield Publishing, ISBN 1-873203-16-0

London

1991

L40085

Friendly Inns & Taverns in and around London

Goodson. Anthony

Regency Press (L & N.Y) Ltd.

London

1967

L40086

A Guide to London's best Pubs.

Green. Martin

Virgin Books Ltd.

London

ISBN 0-907080-47-2

1982

L40087

The Evening Standard Guide to London Pubs.

Green. Martin & White. Tony

Pan Books Ltd.

London

ISBN 0-330-23667-9

1973

L40088

Old London Coaching Inns & their successors

Groom. Arthur

LMS Railway Co

London

L40089

Hotel & Pub Checks of Greater London, Vol. 1

Hayes. Ralph

Published by author

London

ISBN 0-9512043-1-9

1991

Mention of tavern checks & tokens.

L40090

Wining & dining, City of London

Historic Inns of Interest

C & B Publishers (Weardale) Ltd

London

1968

L40091

This London, its Taverns, Haunts & Memories

Hopkins. R. Thurston

Ceril Palmer

London

1927

L40092

The George Inn, Southwark

Kent. William

London

1945

L40093

The Heart of London

Morton. H. V.

Methuen & Co. Ltd.

London

1930

L40094

London Pub Guide 3rd Edition

Nicholson

Robert Nicholson Publication

London

ISBN 0-948576-13-8

1987

L40095

London Pub Guide 4th Edition

Nicholson

Robert Nicholson Publication

London

ISBN 0-7028-1321-4

1990

L40096

London Pride

Noakes. A & Fyson. N.L

Jupiter Books (London) Ltd

London

ISBN 0-904041-94-8

1978

L40097

Inn and Around London, A History of Young's Pubs

Osborn. Helen

Young & Co's Brewery PLC

London

ISBN 0-9518167-0-5

1991

L40098

Old London Town

Owen. Will

J.W Arrowsmith Ltd, Bristol

London

1922

L40099

A Guide to London Taverns

Popham. H.E.

Claude Stacey Ltd..

London

1927

L40100

The Taverns in the Town

Popham. H.E.

Robert Hale Ltd.

London

1937

L40101

London Pubs

Reeve-Jones. Alan

Batsford

London

1966

L40102

City of London Pubs

Richards. T.M & Curl. J.S

David & Charles, Newton Abbot.

London

ISBN 0-7153-5958-4

1973

L40103

The Boars Head Tavern in Eastcheap

Rogers. Kenneth

The Homeland Association Ltd

London

1928

L40104

London Inn Signs (Album 257)

Rotheroe. Dominic

Shire Publications Ltd.

London

ISBN 0-7478-0088-X

1990

L40105

The Old Inns of London

Stanley. Louis T.

B.T. Batsford Ltd.

London

1957

L40106

'Evening Standard' The London Pub & Bar Guide 1999

Sullivan. Edward

Simon & Schuster I

London

SBN 0-671-02204-0

1998

L40107

More London Inns & Taverns

Wagner. Leopold

Allen & Unwin Ltd.

London

1925

L40108

Discovering London's Inns and Taverns (4th Edition)

Wittich. John

Shire Publications Ltd.

London

ISBN 0-7478-0308-0

1996

4th Ed

L40109

Pocket Guide to William Younger Houses in London

Youngers

London

Leaflet with list of pubs

L40110

A Guide to William Younger’s London Inns

Youngers

London

Leaflet with list of pubs.

L40111

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Wine Office Court

Aldridge Press Ltd

London

nd

Booklet giving the history and a description of the pub. Copies date from the 1950s or 60s but has probably appeared in many editions.

L40112

Little Inns of Soho

Seaman, Penelope ..

St Catherine Press Ltd

London

1948

A Book of Inns. No 8.

L40114

Real Beer in London.

CAMRA

CAMRA

London

1981

L40115

Real Beer in London Supplement.

CAMRA

CAMRA

London

1983

L40116

South East London

CAMRA Guide

CAMRA Ltd

London

ISBN 0-9510715-0-5

19**

L40117

Old Chalk Farm Tavern: A Centre of Life (and Death) in Primrose Hill.

Anthony Cooper

London

1978

Camden History Review 6 (1978): 2-6. Short history of Regent's Park Road alehouse, dating from 1678

L40119

George Inn: An Illustrated Sovenir.

Judith Hunter

National Trust

London

1989

Short, popular history, with some architectural detail, of London's only existing galleried coaching inn.

L40120

Samuel Pepys and His Birthplace

W H Whitear

London

1921

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Arch. Society 4 (1921): 323-31. Discusses the White Swan pub. Pub assumed to be in London.

L40121

Britain's Oldest Brewery, a History of Young & Co.

Osborn

London

1999

Sub-titled "the story behind the success of Young's of Wandsworth" - the origins and growth of this famous London brewery and its family (and workers) and pubs are described; excellent illustrations include bottle labels. 224pg.

L40122

Whitbread Pub Guide, Area 1

Whitbread

London

1981

One of 3 booklets listing pubs in their trading areas. Beds, Cambs, Herts Area 2; Area 1 was London & Essex, Area 3 Norfolk & Suffolk.

L40127

A Guide to the Fuller Pint

Fullers

London

nd

Leaflet listing pubs.

L40128

Brewers Handbook

Fuller Smith & Turner

London

nd

Booklet including pictures, descriptions & lists of pubs.

L40129

For a taste of tradition

Fuller Smith & Turner

London

nd

Leaflet, includes list of pubs

L40130

The Tabard Inn, Southwark, The Queen's Head, William Rutter, and St. Margaret's Church

London

1897

Surrey Archaeological Collection 13 (1897): 28-38. Reprints lease of Tabard inn to Rutter in early 16th century and discusses his background.

L40131

Licensed Victuallers Records for the London Metropolitan Archives

London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R OHB

London

1998

Information Leaflet No 3

L40132

London By Pub

Ted Bruning

Prion (now Carlton Books)

London

ISBN 1-85375-431-5

2001

15 tours of historic London pubs, 8-12 pubs per tour, mainly central London

L40133

Hammersmith and Fulham Pubs: Images of London

Chris Amies

Tempus (www.tempus-publishing.com)

London

0-7524-3252-2

2004

www.tempus-publishing.com

L40134

London’s Historic Inns and Taverns

Donald Stuart

Breedon Books

London

1 85983 398 5

A guide to more than 200 of the most interesting of London’s historic inns and taverns.

L40135

Tavern Singing in Early Victorian London: The Diaries of Charles Rice for 1840 and 1850

Charles Rice - Edited by Laurence Senelick

Society for Theatre Research

London

1997

L40136

The Boar's Head Theatre : an inn-yard theatre of the Elizabethan age

Charles Jasper Sisson & Stanley Wells

Routledge and K. Paul

London

071007252X

1972

L40137

A history of the Museum Tavern in Bloomsbury

John N Henderson

Blemund's Books

London

095149130X

1989

L40138