Mary Cathcart Borer (1906-94) was a prolific novelist, playwright and non-fiction author. She worked as a museum curator and archaeologist early on in life, but rose to prominence as a screenwriter for children's films and television plays in the 1940s and 1950s. After this she focussed on non-fiction writing, covering subjects from King Alfred the Great to the Boer War alongside historical studies of various London boroughs. This is one of several books she wrote on British social history.

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• 1. The First Inns2. Medieval Inns3. Tudor Inns4. Inns of Stuart England5. Georgian England6. The Mail Coaches7. On the Roads8. Travellers' Tales9. High Noon of the Coaching Inns10. The Coming of the Railways11. The First Luxury Hotels12. César Ritz and the Savoy13. Back to the Roads14. The Ninetten-Seventies

Mary Cathcart Borer (1906-94) was a prolific novelist, playwright and non-fiction author. She worked as a museum curator and archaeologist early on in life, but rose to prominence as a screenwriter for children's films and television plays in the 1940s and 1950s. After this she focussed on non-fiction writing, covering subjects from King Alfred the Great to the Boer War alongside historical studies of various London boroughs. This is one of several books she wrote on British social history.

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• 1. The First Inns2. Medieval Inns3. Tudor Inns4. Inns of Stuart England5. Georgian England6. The Mail Coaches7. On the Roads8. Travellers' Tales9. High Noon of the Coaching Inns10. The Coming of the Railways11. The First Luxury Hotels12. César Ritz and the Savoy13. Back to the Roads14. The Ninetten-Seventies

Mary Cathcart Borer (1906-94) was a prolific novelist, playwright and non-fiction author. She worked as a museum curator and archaeologist early on in life, but rose to prominence as a screenwriter for children's films and television plays in the 1940s and 1950s. After this she focussed on non-fiction writing, covering subjects from King Alfred the Great to the Boer War alongside historical studies of various London boroughs. This is one of several books she wrote on British social history.

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• 1. The First Inns2. Medieval Inns3. Tudor Inns4. Inns of Stuart England5. Georgian England6. The Mail Coaches7. On the Roads8. Travellers' Tales9. High Noon of the Coaching Inns10. The Coming of the Railways11. The First Luxury Hotels12. César Ritz and the Savoy13. Back to the Roads14. The Ninetten-Seventies