Markman Ellis introduces his talk for the Immigrants of Spitalfields Festival – ‘A Tea-Drinking Nation: How Britain Came to Identify with a Migrant Alien in the Early Eighteenth Century’ on Monday 20th June 3pm, Hanbury Hall, Hanbury St, E1 6QR. (Click here for tickets) Richard Collins’ ‘The Tea Party’ (c.1727), Courtesy of Goldsmiths’ Hall Britain … Continue reading A Nation Of Tea-Drinkers