In the 18th century, the coffee house was satirised for this very reason. Memorably, when the heroine of Alexander Pope’s mock-epic The Rape of the Lock (1712) ...

Northern Ireland people are often accused of spending too much of the present in the past. But a recent experiment was deliberately designed to go back in time – with the aim of helping the future.

Hundreds of relics discovered in a disused cellar at a university give a remarkable insight into an '18th century Starbucks ', experts say. More than 500 artefacts from the coffee shop - including ...

Coffee fuelled the information exchanges of the 17th and 18th centuries ... Miles's coffee-house was the meeting-place of a ... both in the 17th century and today, wants to be free—and ...