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    612-822-4611

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British Hotel Through the Ages

British Hotel Through the Ages

Borer, Mary Cathcart

Paperback

General World HistoryGreat BritainBritish History

ISBN10: 0718895800
ISBN13: 9780718895808
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: May 27 2021
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A rich and detailed social history of inns and hotels in Britain, first published in 1972.

The first inns in Britain were built by the Romans, for the accommodation of road builders and government officials. Their history since then ranges from pilgrim hostels built by monasteries to coaching inns and palatial railway hotels. Throughout this book runs a rich vein of social history detailing the food, drink, furnishings and costs of British hotels. Travellers' tales, both British and foreign, from the sixteenth century onwards, are quoted at length, so that the book comes alive with first-hand impressions. We learn how some of the Regency Hotels of London came into being, such as Grillion's, where Louis XVIII stayed in 1814, and there are accounts of the early railway hotels, and the great provincial hotels of Britain's coast and countryside.

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