Lindley Live: Coffee, Adulterated! - Crimes against Caffeine

Drop into the RHS Lindley Library for our Autumn lunchtime talk series: Lindley Live!

For Londoners in the mid-nineteenth century, there were no guarantees that the food and drink they consumed was what it claimed to be.

Discover how RHS detectives exposed an underground world of adulterated coffee and unscrupulous retailers in this show and tell.

The RHS Lindley Library is open Tuesday to Friday, 10.00am - 4.00pm. RHS membership not required. Come early to browse of collection of modern titles and changing display.

Register your interest to receive an event reminder before the talk. The show and tell begins at 1.15pm.

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The image is an illustraion of adulterated coffee through a microscope from The Lancet as the Reports of the Analytical Sanitary Commission. Find more inspiration with the RHS Digital Collections.

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