This website was created as an assignment for a course at the University of Michigan entitled Banned Books. It is listed as English 371 and instructed by Professor David Porter during Fall Semester, 2003.

The information on this website gives an overview of coffee house culture in eighteenth-century London. Our research focuses on this period that saw a major uprising in the number of shops opened to the public as an alternative to taverns. The mixture of social classes provided a rich forum for learning and new opportunities to create otherwise unheard of connections. Visitors to this new type of meeting place centered their discussions around the mind stimulating beverage known as coffee. This website aims to provide the viewer with an idea of the sorts of activites that went on in a coffee house, why the cofffee houses were so popular, and the ideas that were created because of them.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us!

Stephanie Grynwich
Undergraduate Student
University of Michigan
sgrynwic@umich.edu

Allison Neal
Undergraduate Student
University of Michigan
neala@umich.edu

© 2003
Coffee cup designed by Allison Neal.


This site was last updated on December 12, 2003