Ted Bruning

Ted Bruning, journalist, historian, prolific author, former editor of the Campaign for Real Ale's What's Brewing newspaper and a founder member of the Guild, has died aged 68 after a long illness.

After beginning his career on the Worksop Guardian, Ted joined pub trade newspaper The Morning Advertiser in the 1980s, when it was still a daily. He went on to work for CAMRA for 13 years, editing What's Brewing for eight of them.

In later life Ted miraculously survived a brain hemorrhage. Though that, and heart problems, curtailed his physical activity, he continued to write books at a frantic rate. They included how-to handbooks for microbrewers, distillers and bar owners, histories of London pubs, coaching inns and gin, and many more, often in collaboration with other authors. His Historic Inns of England won a silver tankard at the Guild Awards in 2000.

He lived in Cambridge and is survived by his twin children, Robert and Isobel, and their mother Liz. Funeral arrangements will be announced soon.