https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks Gaetano Risoluto en-us 2022-05-12 07:12:07 UTC 2023-06-01 15:30:25 UTC hello@padlet.com gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180778615 Tea is so much a part of everyday life in Britain that we might never stop to think about how a unique plant from faraway China became the nation´s favourite drink. But the history of tea is fascinating, and in this section we can follow its story from the earliest times in Imperial China right up to its present place at the heart of British life.]]> 2022-05-12 07:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180778615 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180779561 Read about the exotic beginnings of tea in China and the Far East and in time how it was transported to the UK and America on the Tea Clippers.]]> 2022-05-12 07:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180779561 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180780188 Discover how tea was brought to England by a seventeenth century queen, and how important the tea trade was to the British East India Company, one of the most powerful commercial organisations the world has ever seen.]]> 2022-05-12 07:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180780188 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180780798 Learn how the phenomenal popularity of tea in the eighteenth century led to widespread smuggling and adulteration, and about the murderous lengths smugglers went to to protect their illegal trade.]]> 2022-05-12 07:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180780798 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180781473 Read also about the Boston Tea Party of 1773, which sparked off the American Revolution, and how rivalry between the English and the American tea traders in the nineteenth century led to the excitement of the Clipper races. And trace the social history of tea in Britain, from the early debates about its health-giving properties, to the rise of the tea bag, via the great tradition of the London Tea Auction and the role of tea in boosting morale in the World Wars.]]> 2022-05-12 07:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180781473 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180781809 This section is an overview of the history of tea in Europe and especially in the United Kingdom.]]> 2022-05-12 07:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180781809 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180784868 2022-05-12 07:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180784868 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180786160 2022-05-12 07:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180786160 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180787171 2022-05-12 07:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180787171 gaetanorisoluto04 https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180789595 2022-05-12 07:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gaetanorisoluto04/Bookmarks/wish/2180789595