Keep Calm and Steep On
May 26, 2020
2 minutes
Text by Bruce Richardson
Image from Benjamin Press Archives
As German bombs fell on London in September 1939, the British government faced a dilemma they had feared for some time. How would they protect the vital commodity that fueled an empire?
That fuel was tea.
The London tea auctions, begun in 1679, soon came
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