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Laura Thompson: The Last Landlady
According to a family legend, Laura's grandmother was the first woman to be given a publican's licence in her own right. Today, when twenty pubs close every week - when society has changed so much, yet the image of the pub still resonates - what is its future? Laura has captured these thoughts in her latest book 'The Last Landlady'.
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