The British love their pubs and history suggests our enjoyment of beer and brewing is long-standing. This talk is a gentle, and hopefully amusing, ramble through the history of brewing, beer, breweries and pubs from the Romans to the present day, with some examples of pubs and breweries from the local area, as well as a look at pub ephemera.

Sue Ellis is a local historian in the Thatcham and Newbury area who has taken the idea of hands-on research seriously in researching this talk and consequently has felt constrained to visit many of the pubs she mentions!