Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… a complementary sociable institution. Places > Institutions Places > Food & Drink venues Mots-clés Coffeehouses Drinking Public sphere Politics Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an … entitled The Vertue of the Coffee Drink (c.1652), in which he claimed credit for being the first person to sell coffee publicly in England. By 1656, James Farr, had established the Rainbow Coffeehouse in competition with Rosee and soon … that discourse amongst friends at a coffeehouse constituted private conversation that should be protected from public scrutiny by the state. What had once been understood as a space for public declarations in the later Stuart era …
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