For centuries, the pub has played a central role in our lives and communities. Throughout Britain, there are many pubs saying that they are the oldest - some of them even claim to have Medieval origins.
In this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Cat Jarman welcomes back award-winning buildings archaeologist Dr. James Wright to explore how long we have we actually had pubs and which of them can truly claim to be the oldest.
The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.
For more Gone Medieval content, subscribe to our Medieval Monday newsletter here: https://www.historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_source=timelinenewsletter&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Timeline+Podcast+Campaign
Up Next in Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧
-
🎧 How Deep History Swung the US Election
Lewis Dartnell joined me on the podcast to talk about a theory that links the outcome of the US election to geology.
-
🎧 How Democracies Decay with Brian Klaas
Dan talks to academic and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas the decay of democracy and the slide into authoritarian nationalism.
-
🎧 How Democracy Dies
I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Anne Applebaum. Anne's written extensively on Marxism–Leninism, the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, and was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic ...
1 Comment