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Gathering in a tavern to drink beer or other alcoholic drinks is a longstanding social tradition dating at least to Sumer ( 3500 BC ); in Sumer the tavern keeper was traditionally a woman but in other places and times women could be completely excluded from tavern culture. They have existed in England from as early as the 13th Century and were often kept by women usually known as Ale-wives. In the mid- 14th Century there were only three in London . An act of 1552 allowed forty in London, eight in York , six in Bristol and many more in towns all across England. By the 19th Century the word ''tavern'' had developed an archaic flavour, the current term being ''public house'' (pub). SEE ALSO |
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