My point was that black men would have been unusual, but welcome, customers in a rural English pub in the 1940s,
women of any description might well have been refused admission, or at best allowed in if escorted by a man in a separate (not the 'public') bar.
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Before 1982 women trying to spend their money in English pubs could legally be refused service, a reflection of the older societal norms that had established pubs as a ‘male-only’ social place. A traditional Fleet Street bar, El Vino, banned women to a back room in the name of chivalry. The origin of the ban was thought to date to the Second World War to prevent unescorted women of ill repute picking up customers [I think it went back further than that - eul]. Protests against the rules had made themselves heard over a decade earlier, when in 1970 a group of female journalists demanded to be served because ‘our money is equal so our rights must be equal’. In the 1970s women could legally be refused the right to go [? buy a] drink unaccompanied.
women of any description might well have been refused admission, or at best allowed in if escorted by a man in a separate (not the 'public') bar.
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Before 1982 women trying to spend their money in English pubs could legally be refused service, a reflection of the older societal norms that had established pubs as a ‘male-only’ social place. A traditional Fleet Street bar, El Vino, banned women to a back room in the name of chivalry. The origin of the ban was thought to date to the Second World War to prevent unescorted women of ill repute picking up customers [I think it went back further than that - eul]. Protests against the rules had made themselves heard over a decade earlier, when in 1970 a group of female journalists demanded to be served because ‘our money is equal so our rights must be equal’. In the 1970s women could legally be refused the right to go [? buy a] drink unaccompanied.
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