London

Assembled from 22 blocks · 3 evidence · 40 related

1. Story
2. London is the capital of England and of the United Kingdom, a settlement of Roman foundation on the tidal Thames that became, from the seventeenth century, the administrative and financial centre of a global maritime empire. Its institutional density — the chartered companies, the docks and warehouses, the auction rooms, the insurance and banking market, and Parliament and the Treasury — meant that decisions taken in a few square miles set prices and policy across continents. In this Journey it appears as the place where Chinese tea was auctioned and taxed, where the East India Company was governed from Leadenhall Street, and where Assam's first chests were sold in 1839. It is a canonical city object and is not defined by the tea trade.
3. Knowledge
4. London
5. Connections
6. Tea
7. Afternoon tea
8. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
9. Boston Tea Party
10. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
11. First Assam tea auctioned in London
12. London Marathon
13. New York City
14. White City Stadium
15. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
16. The first London Marathon
17. The Great Exhibition
18. Google DeepMind
19. Evidence
20. British tea duty was cut from about 119 per cent to 12.5 per cent, collapsing the smuggling trade and converting tea into a mass-consumption commodity.
21. The Company's Canton trade, its tea purchases and cargo accounting, and its administrative decision-making are documented in a single surviving institutional archive.
22. Documents the 1823 Singpho tea encounter, Charles Bruce's samples, the 1834 Tea Committee, the January 1839 London auction of Assam tea and the founding of the Assam Company.