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dc.contributor.authorMoss, Stella
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-14T16:19:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-10T15:55:12Z
dc.date.available2017-03-14T16:19:01Z
dc.date.available2017-04-10T15:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2009-11
dc.identifier.citation

Moss, S. (2009) '“A Grave Question”: The Children Act and Public House Regulation, c. 1908-1939', Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective, 3(2), pp.98-117. Available at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/8846

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dc.identifier.issn1754-0445
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8846
dc.description.abstract

This article considers the impact of the Children Act 1908 on the regulation of public houses in the period c.1908-39. The Act banned minors under 14 years old from public bars in the attempt to protect them from what were seen by reformers as the inimical influences of licensed premises. The article examines the impact of the Act, illuminating efforts to ensure its strict upkeep during the Great War. Also explored are the tensions surrounding the Act, and in particular its failure to address problems such as the continued presence of children in the vicinity of licensed premises, typically by pub entrances. Finally, the article considers interwar pro-trade lobbying for the revocation of the 1908 ban as part of a wider campaign encouraging family recreation in pubs.

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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouth
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectregulation of public housesen_US
dc.subjectchildren on licensed premisesen_US
dc.subjectliquor licensingen_US
dc.subjecttemperanceen_US
dc.title“A Grave Question”: The Children Act and Public House Regulation, c. 1908-1939en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.typeArticle
plymouth.issue2
plymouth.volume3
plymouth.journalSOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours


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