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1709Recipe for cosmetic water
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1715Sugar in Britain
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1730Textile production
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1734East India Company: list of goods ordered
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1743Muffin Seller
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1745The Good and Bad Effects of Tea
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1747The Art of Cookery
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1757Fake map of Roman Britain
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1764The Spinning Jenny
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1770The Spinning Jenny
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1771Factories
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1771Pleasure gardens
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1777Factories
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1778London prostitutes
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1782Account of London's street lights
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1784Trade ship's logbook
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1786Dictionary of slang
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1787The Tyburn Chronicle
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1791Poverty
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1794An act for town improvements
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Intro
The East India Company had been trading regularly with the Chinese since the early 1700s, shipping increasing amounts of tea back to Britain. By the end of the century tea accounted for more than 60 percent of the Company's total trade. The demand for tea amongst the British public boomed. Throughout the 18th century there were numerous debates over Britain's new tea craze. Many believed that tea had medicinal properties, while others warned against the cost of such a frivolous luxury. The author of 'The Good and Bad Effects of Tea Consider'd' follows both lines of thought: on the one hand tea consumed without milk or sugar could act as a medicinal remedy; on the other hand, tea was an expensive 'evil' in which poor families could not afford to indulge.
Shelfmark: BL 1638.1.41
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