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Historical editorial illustration of a seventeenth-century London coffeehouse: merchants and a sea captain discuss shipping papers around a wooden table with small coffee cups, while other patrons converse beneath leaded windows. An imagined scene illustrating how letters and spoken reports met in a shared business space.

Why Did London Get Its News in Coffeehouses?

London coffeehouses joined incoming reports with people who could interpret and use them. Lloyd’s and Robert Hooke show how print and talk worked together.

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