Olivier Lucazeau
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/ 22 November 2005

British pubs still very much the public house

Public living room, office, canteen, an escape, a place to chat, laugh or socialise, a venue for parties and wakes, the pub is still the heartbeat of British life. ”For lots of us it’s kind of a second home”, said social anthropologist Kate Fox, the director of the Social Issues Research Centre, based in Oxford, southern England.