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Index
Cover
Title page
Dedication page
Contents
Epigraph page
Prologue: Concerning Scandal, Murder, Smuggling, Highwaymen, Coffee, &C.
Chapter One: In Which We Make the Perilous and Eventful Journey to the George Inn, Southwark. From my House.
Chapter Two: Concerning Dates, Names, Mutya, Heidi &C.
Chapter Three: Being Some Remarks on London’s First Bridge, and How This Bridge Gives Our Story its Very Shape
Chapter Four: On Inns, Taverns, Alehouses, Pubs and Boozers. But Mainly Inns, and the Distinctive Nature Thereof.
Chapter Five: The Poet’s Tale, or, How English Literature was Born in a Southwark Inn
Chapter Six: In Which We Meet the Inhabitants of Sinful Southwark, and the Patrons of its Divers Inns, Taverns and Alehouses
Chapter Seven: Concerning Bulls, Bears, Actors and Other Beasts, and their Various ‘Entertainments’, including the Sad Tale of a Monkey on a Horse
Chapter Eight: Further Unsavoury Activities in Inns and Alehouses, and How These Places Were Burn’d by Almighty God’s Fury (if You Believe in That Sort of Thing)
Chapter Nine: Our Inn Enjoys a Golden Age of Romance, Highwaymen, Complicated Timetables and Sore Posteriors
Chapter Ten: Concerning Drink, Hops and Politics, and How the George Inn Brings These Elements Together
Chapter Eleven: In Which the Road of Steel Replaces the Roads of the Romans, and the Inns of The Borough Suffer a Terrible Fate
Chapter Twelve: Concerning a Mother and Daughter, Two Brothers, and the Condition of Nostalgia
Chapter Thirteen: In Which the George Inn is Sav’d for the Nation, and a Princess and a Bishop Have a Lock-In
Epilogue: A Drink at the George Inn To-Day
Timeline and Dramatis Personae
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Picture and Text Acknowledgements
Author biography
Copyright page
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