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Tea time

How do you take your tea? Served in an elegant parlour, from a flask or during a Japanese ceremony? Since the 1840s, sitting down for a steamy cup of joy has become part of daily life all over the world.

Rijksmuseum

Manufactuur Oud-Loosdrecht sugar bowl: Manufactuur Oud-Loosdrecht or Porceleinfabriek aan den Amstel Loosdrecht and Ouder-Amstel, c. 1782–1784 hard-paste porcelain

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This cake shows the more artistic side of the Irish cake decoration.

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These chimps are so gental ! . Tea party again at London zoo . x000D The chimpazee ' s tea party is again a daily attraction at the London Zoo now that the summer season has arrived large crowds of visitors gather outside the cage to admire the chimp…

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Mayor at children 's tea party in London Hospital .x000D The Mayor of Holborn , Councillor Horace Longdon , at tea with some of the children and nurses .x000D 27 December 1935

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: La marchande de tisanne. Designed & drawn on stone by I.I. Chalon. C. Hullmandel's Lithography.

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Wakefield Council

The Misses Glover taking tea in the garden of their house, 88 Batley Road, Wakefield.

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National Library of Scotland

Soldiers relaxing in a Church Army hall, France, during World War I. Although not all the soldiers are looking at the camera the scene does have an atmosphere of stilted formality. Most of the soldiers appear quite tense and are posed at unnatural angles …

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Royal Museums Greenwich
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Museum of Ethnography
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Royal Museums Greenwich
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Wakefield Council

An unidentified group taking tea outside a caravan.

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Vaux Brothers grocers shop, with a 'Radio Tea' window display. The brass and glass sign at the bottom of the window is in the Pontefract Museum's collections.

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Workmen on tea break, whilst digging a trench to lay services.

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Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Disney tea set - cup

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National Library of Scotland

Wounded soldier lying in a hospital bed. He is being offered a plate of biscuits by a nurse. There is a tea trolley, with a teapot and cups, parked alongside his bed. In the next bed along there is a very young looking soldier. In the background there is …

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Victoria and Albert Museum

'Blue Cross Tea' poster with a sticker attached. Featuring a grocer's shop with and display board advertising Blue Cross Tea in the background. A gentleman leaving the shop is carrying a packet of biscuits on the end of his umbrella. The man w…

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Tea time in the orchard - Fruit pickers at tea during their spell of apple picking in the orchards at Malling , Kent , England .x000D 23 August 1951

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Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
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Coronation teas on Woodside Crescent in Sidcup , Kent , to celebrate the coronation of King George VI .x000D 15 May 1937

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Wakefield Council

A nurses tea party. These nurses are on a tennis court by the Pontefract Workhouse hospital buildings on Headlands Lane.

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National Library of Scotland

This photograph shows a group of Red Cross nurses, and a soldier, relaxing on the deck of a barge. One nurse has a dog on her lap, another is handing out cups of tea. Several have large paper parasols to shade them from the sun. In the background the can…

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Girls making tea in readiness for testing by the tasters at Lyons Greenford Factory.x000D 1952

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Russian tea from the samovar carte-de-visite photograph, c1860.

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Albertina

Label: r.o. “INDRA/TEA” (in print)

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Scotland. The Brown Derby Tea Room in Edinburgh, Scotland. Overlooking Princes Street and Castle Rock. c. 1950

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The Tea Centre off the Haymarket, London 1951

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