Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… role in the way in which sociability has been understood by historians and critics of the era. Thomas Babington Macaulay used the coffeehouse as key example of how English society worked in the 1680s in his influential History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848). Macaulay’s description of the later Stuart coffeehouse was memorable. The coffeehouse, he declared: ‘[...] might indeed … bar. Yet every rank and profession, and every shade of religious and political opinion, had its own headquarters‘. 10 Macaulay presented a Whig history of the coffeehouse in which this new social institution served as a venue for the …
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