Coffeehouse
Cafetería europea
- Date
- 1652 · confidence high
- Place
- London, England (Pasqua Rosée); Venice (1645)
- Credited to
- Pasqua Rosée (London); Ottoman model from Istanbul (1554)
- People
- 👤 Pasqua Rosée1651–1656
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A public establishment where imported coffee was drunk while reading newspapers, debating and doing business, nicknamed the 'penny university'. An institution of the bourgeois public sphere.
Charles II tried to close them down in 1675 as seditious.
What it led to
- Lloyd's of London and the Stock Exchange, both born in coffeehouses
- Public opinion, the press and political clubs
- Colonial trade in coffee, tea and sugar (slave plantations)
- Sobriety and work discipline as an alternative to alcohol
Built on
- Roasted coffee as a beveragec. 1450
- Printed newspaper1605
- Ottoman coffee (Istanbul, 1554)
- Levant trade
Made possible
- Lloyd's (marine insurance)
- London Stock Exchange
- Political club