Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… Image ‘The Coffeehous Mob’, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1880,0807.301, 1710. Image C. Lamb after G. M. Woodward, ‘A Sudden … Fores, 1 Jan. 1804), etching and stipple, (25 × 35.5 cm), BM Sat. 10325.1; Lewis Walpole Library, [LWL] 804.1.1.7 Résumé Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century Britain. They played an important role both as real … 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 ostensible purpose of drinking …
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