Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
Lloyd's of London started as a coffee house
'Penny universities': for the price of a coffee you got the newspapers and the conversation. Lloyd's, the stock exchange, and a bunch of newspapers grew out of coffee houses.
5 sources · 33 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “coffee houses history london”
- Ended at
- Kaldi
The Trail
- “coffee houses history london” (google.com)
- History of coffee (en.wikipedia.org)
- English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries (en.wikipedia.org)
- Lloyd's of London (en.wikipedia.org)
- Kaldi (en.wikipedia.org)
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