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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.

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Tea service for two people (tête-à-tête)
Mad Hatters Tea Party
These chimps are so gental
Mayor at children 's tea
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A woman tea vendor is waiting for payment for the drink the man has bought for his female …
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French and British troops in France having a sing song at a Church Army depot
First Class Chinese Tea Room on the 'Ciudad de Buenos Aires' (1914)
tea pot
Tea caddy
Westerners at Yokohama, Japan, enjoying a lavish tea ceremony as a cellist plays to them. …
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Tea time at the convalescent hospital
Blue Cross Tea
Tea break
H7. Uji Tea Garden
Coronation teas on Woodside Crescent
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Red Cross Barge Nurses during a quiet spell in France take tea in a barge
Girls making tea
Russian tea from the samovar carte-de-visite
Indra Tea
Tea Room
The Tea Centre off the
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