Tea Drinking & Smuggling in Cumbria | Carlisle Library's Local History Talks

📽️📽️📽️ Carlisle Library's Local History Talks | A Nice Cup of Tea
Join our resident local historian Stephen White alongside his companions, Orwell, Pepys and Johnson as they explore the history of tea importing and drinking in Cumbria. Discover Cumbria's links to smuggling; food adulteration; New World revolution; and the Opium Wars.
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[@francesdaltrey704]

We drink loose tea, not from teabags imprisoning the tea, which we see as unnecessary, so we agree with Orwell.
Thanks for another interesting insight Stephen.

[@tomhind266d6]

I wonder i was born in carlisle in 1939 and my surname is hind and my nickname is tommy t bag as i drink alot