Melvyn Bragg
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first heard Aug 2026
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Because th they got too lively and they were spreading ideas, heaven forbid, in this country and he um and it was threatened with close.
They were threatened with close.
Yes,
Session.
Jonathan Morris, um, let's bring in how it's developing as a trade.
Uh the Dutch East India Company, very powerful, takes uh takes a takes its part in this.
Amsterdam becomes one of the great centers of the coffee trade.
Can you develop that?
they wanted to make more money or because they wanted to control it for other reasons?
Mark Vanelis, um how was at that time
coffee changing the way we did business for instance.
Julius pointed it out to or alluded to the fact that it changed that the the the interplay of ideas.
It was outside the university system.
From the university system was mainly classics, you went into the law uh or you went into the church, uh and the the the great
practical scientific development of our country came from dissenters or people outside the universities and the the the these clubs, these coffee houses were part of that.
Judith, you were c you were keen to stress the variety and number of coffee houses and we've had one or two there.
Is was there a general sense in which the drinking of coffee in these coffee houses changed what was being said and written, changed changed the game in uh in London and elsewhere.
It wasn't just in London.
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so we're talking more
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