HISTORIAN Dr Paul Jennings is familiar to Telegraph & Argus readers for his regular articles on old Bradford pubs. As a third edition of his book The Local: A History of the English Pub and Bradford Pubs is published, Dr Jennings writes about why pubs remain so significant to our heritage and identity: The coronavirus pandemic and the government’s response to it has had an unprecedented impact on the national life, not least on that great English institution - the pub. At one and the same time it has highlighted the decline which the pub has faced for some years now and yet showed just how important it remains to the nation’s leisure habits and its sense of identity. It is therefore timely that the History Press has brought out a new, third, edition of my book The Local: A History of the English Pub.