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 … the modern newspaper existed. In such circumstances, the coffee houses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself … Foreigners remarked that the coffee house was that which especially …
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