Reformers of the 19th century warned that taking a tea break would steer Irish peasant women to thoughts of revolution. The warnings largely went unheeded. Still, it gives us pause to think about ...

By the mid-19th century, Britain was an almost unchallenged empire. It controlled about a fifth of the world's surface, and yet its weakness had everything to do with tiny leaves soaked in hot water.

The British tea barons’ inability to persuade Americans to take up tea was one of their most glaring failures, Rappaport said. Colonial Americans drank tea, but when coffee took off here in the ...

Poor Irish women who drank tea in the 19th century might as well have been chugging a bottle of whiskey. Rachel Nuwer. December 5, 2012. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

If you were a woman in the 19th century, virtually anything could get you committed to a psychiatric hospital—including drinking too much tea. Hide the Earl Grey! AMAZING FACTS ...