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Have a nice sit-down with a cuppa, maybe a chocolate digestive too. What could be more quintessentially English?
The most normal thing in the world. Yet the tea we drink isn't English
at all. There's a good chance the tea cup isnt either... But wherever
you go, right across England, you'll find cups of tea being served from
your everyday greasy spoon caff to the Ritz.
The
story of tea takes in all sorts of aspects of England's history, many of
them unsavoury. It's the story of trade and clippers and empire, the
story of medicine and hygiene and bone china.
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Biography
Find out here all about when tea first came to England, the international tea trade, and how the drink rapidly became a national icon
Features
Tea rituals, teapots, reading tea leaves – it's all here, together with the colourful history of tea advertising, the parallel stories of coffee and chocolate, and an interview with the man who runs the Tea Museum
