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GCSE History · key term
An establishment selling coffee where customers could meet, exchange news, discuss ideas and conduct business.
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Paper 2
Revise: Restoration CultureCoffee houses were places where customers could meet over a drink, exchange news, discuss ideas and make business contacts. They were not a Restoration invention: the Rainbow Coffee House in Fleet Street opened in 1657. However, their rapid growth made them an important feature of Charles II’s reign.
Paper 3
A commercial meeting place where customers bought coffee and could socialise, conduct business, read news and discuss politics.
Explain the mechanism: coffee houses brought people and political news together, allowing discussion and the circulation of opposition arguments.
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Coffee houses helped this development. Coffee had reached Britain from the East through overseas trade. Its consumption created commercial meeting places where business, sociability and political discussion could overlap.