“…Read in this way, she argues, the pub is 'both a space and a time in which it is permissible to engage in an activity (selling beer) that would be illegal in another space (a park) or another time (after last call)' (Valverde, 2003, p. 148 (fn) and p. 149). Following Valverde's assessment of licensing as a 'time, place and manner' form of regulation, I will argue that the decision of Glasgow's Edwardian magistrates to ban barmaids was enacted through a consideration of the particularity of that 'pub' chronotope, a space marked by distinctive temporalities (Howell & Beckingham, 2015). And the management of temporality, I will suggest, was and remains of vital significance in the impress of licensing's spatial geographies on urban work and leisure culture.…”