Coffee-house
Coffee was first introduced to Western Europe in the mid-17th century and quickly became extremely popular; the first recorded coffee-house outside the Ottoman Empire opened its doors in Venice in 1645 and the first one in England opened in Oxford five years later. The coffee-houses of 17th- and 18th-century Europe were places of socializing, business, and the exchange of news and gossip.
News & hot coffee . . .
The EE Coffee-house
Our coffee-house is a place where you can dip into the Anniversarial for news and information about significant anniversaries; the monthly Miscellany with its informal, quirky commentary on people and letters in EE; or the Letterbook for “newly-arrived” letters never before published. The Map room, with its growing collection of maps, will enable you to orient the movement of letters and people around the world; the shelf of Reference works gives you access to dictionaries and encyclopaedias, journals and biographical resources.