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Edward Lloyd I was a guest on a podcast recently, where I was asked to talk about Edward Lloyd, owner of one of the world’s most famous coffee houses in the late 17th to early 18th century, and unbeknownst to him, a founder of a global marketplace that almost underwrites the world. Rather than celebrate […]
Read More Edward lloyd, the man.Coffee became fashinale in the late 17th century. What was it like?
Read More The Coffee Drink of the 17th CenturyWe all know about the Great Fire of London. But what about the other parts of the story that were unfolding before and after the Fire itself?
Read More The Great Fire of London: Hidden Perspectives and ImpactsI traversed this day, by Steamboat, the space between London and Hungerford bridges… the appearance and the smell of the water forced themselves at Once Upon my attention. The whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid… the smell was very bad, and common to the whole of the water. Michael Faraday, in […]
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