Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… (25 × 35.5 cm), BM Sat. 10325.1; Lewis Walpole Library, [LWL] 804.1.1.7 Abstract Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an important role both as real spaces for social interaction and as virtual places in which normative ideals of urban and polite sociability were imagined. Coffeehouses were centres of sociability because they brought people together for the … important role both as real spaces for social interaction and as virtual places in which normative ideals of urban and polite sociability were imagined. The first coffeehouses were established in England in the 1650s, possibly in London or …
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