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How do Britain’s pubs get their names?

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

An easy one: what links Jack Straw’s Castle, The Labouring Boys and The Jolly Taxpayer? No, not the parliamentary expenses scandal of yesteryear, but the weird and whimsical world of British pub names.

It was in 1393 that Richard II ordered brewers to announce their beery business by a prominent sign.

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