England: The Coffeehouse Mob, frontispiece to 'Ned Ward', Part IV of Vulgus Britannicus, or the British Hudibras, 1710. Historians define English coffeehouses as public social houses during the 17th and 18th centuries, in which patrons would assemble for conversation and social interaction, while taking part in the newly emerging coffee consumption habits of the time. Travellers introduced coffee as a beverage to England during the mid-17th century. For the price of a penny, customers purchased a cup of coffee and admission to a coffeehouse, where men engaged in conversation.

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