Great British Tea Party - A coffee shop engraving from the late 17th century. The first coffee house was recorded in Oxford and was opened in 1650 by a Jew called Jacob
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Interior of Wills Coffee House, Covent Garden, with eminent 17th century figures by Edward Matthew Ward on artnet
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