"The Moon Under Water"" is published here.
The Wikipedia short summary of Orwell's criteria for a perfect pub - in London, in 1946 - is as good as any. [Accessed 14 January 2022]
Orwell's review of the 1935 Mass Observation's The Pub and the People. [Accessed 18 January 2022]; Jenny Taylor's and Simon Prince's article on "Temporalities, ritual, and drinking in Mass Observation's Worktown", The Historical Journal, 4 November 2020 [Accessed 18 January 2022]; Richard Keeble's note on "The pub, the people and Orwell"
The Orwell Society, the The Orwell Foundation and The Orwell Archive at UCL are excellent sources on Orwell, his life and works etc. [Accessed 14 January 2022]
Paul Moody and Robin Turner's The search for the perfect pub: looking for the Moon Under Water, 2011
Pete Brown's The Pub: a cultural institution, 2016. [Accessed 18 January 2022]; and his "Ode to the pub". [Accessed 18 January 2022]
Robert Shaw's "The making of pub atmospheres and George Orwell's Moon Under Water" in Sara Schroer and Susanne Schmitt, Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically, 2018.
Andrew Anthony's article, "In search of the perfect pub: what makes a great British boozer", in The Guardian, 30 June 2019. [Accessed 18 January 2022]
Nicholas Cooper's blog, "Revisiting the Moon Under Water: The Perfect Pub", in The Huffington Post [UK], 18 June 2013. [Accessed 23 January 2022]
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