A "public house," in the term's broadest sense, could be any site where alcohol is legally consumed on the premises.
This occurred primarily through the system of public house licensing.
The political survival of the new institution is attributed to the ways in which public house licensing both regulated and also legitimated the coffeehouse.
As often as not the public house was a convenient and congenial centre for these activities with the inevitable association of drunkenness.
Not only was the public house removed, the village also never had a nonconformist chapel.
The origin of the gender imbalance lies in a combination of factors, including the opportunities provided by churches for a social life outwith the home and the male-dominated public house.
I listened with interest to a radio recording made recently of a conversation in a public house.
I live in the middle of an area with no public house for many miles.
