{"id":493,"date":"2017-07-18T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T10:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/?page_id=493"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:45:21","slug":"georgian-londons-coffeehouses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/illuminating-objects-home\/queen-anne-silver-coffee-pot\/georgian-londons-coffeehouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian London&#8217;s Coffeehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 17th and 18th century coffeehouse was a hub of intellectual and social engagement, where people of relatively diverse social backgrounds could read newspapers, debate and comment on world events, where tradesmen made business deals and where travellers exchanged bits of news. All this is suggested in the\u00a0<em>Rules and Orders of the Coffee-house<\/em>, which was published in 1674:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Enter, sirs, freely, but first, if you please,<\/em><br \/>\n <em>Peruse our civil orders, which are these.<\/em><br \/>\n <em>First, gentry, tradesmen, all are welcome hither,<\/em><br \/>\n <em>And may without affront sit down together:<\/em><br \/>\n <em>Pre-eminence of place none here should mind,<\/em><br \/>\n <em>But take the next fit seat that he can find\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coffeehouses were known as \u2018penny universities\u2019 because customers, including \u00a0students, artists, writers, merchants and businessmen, were charged a penny as an entrance fee, which covered the drink, newspapers, pamphlets and the latest news and gossip.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the greatest English writers of the 18th century, including John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson were frequent clients of coffeehouses and their presence attracted customers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-494\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/georgian-london-500-e1500375224199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-494\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/georgian-london-500-e1500375224199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/georgian-london-500-e1500375224199.jpg 307w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/georgian-london-500-e1500375224199-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gentleman throws hot coffee in the face of his opponent. From the frontispiece of Ned Ward\u2019s satirical poem \u2018Vulgus Brittanicus\u2019 (1710) as reproduced in Peter Brown, In Praise of Hot Liquors: The Study of Chocolate, Coffee and Tea Drinking 1600-1850 (an Exhibition at FairFax House, York-1st September to 20th November 1995) (York Civic Trust, 1995)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Coffeehouses had vocal supporters and detractors, and numerous pamphlets were published either condemning the drink \u2013 for example claiming it caused impotence \u2013 or praising its restorative virtues. Satirists criticized the kinds of conversations occurring in coffeehouses: gabbling, gossiping, wheedling and idleness were four attributes thought to be engendered by drinking coffee. Coffeehouses were also, more seriously, potential breeding grounds for political rebellion, where the \u201cseeds of sedition\u201d (<em>A Character of Coffee and Coffee-Houses<\/em>, published in 1661) were planted. \u00a0Charles II famously tried to stifle their potential for dissent by issuing a ban on coffeehouses in 1675. 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