Tea’s history and global trade events are intrinsically linked, meaning the future of the world’s second favorite beverage is ...

The East India Company placed its first order for tea in 1664 – it could only be bought from China at the time and the Company had a monopoly. It quickly became the Englishman’s afternoon ...

Thanks to the East India Company, exotic goods like spices from Indonesia, tea and porcelain from China, became part of everydaylife. Every year, huge merchant ships of the East India Company ...