Exciting and enterprising, bloody and brutal.
Sathnam Sanghera tells the story of our national drink and its imperial past.
Punjabi cha, served from a saucepan to the whole family every morning, is the drink of Sathnam’s childhood.
But he’s also noticed that tea is a Forrest Gump-type figure, appearing at all sorts of key moments in global history.
Tea arrived in Britain as an exotic product for the elite. How and why did it then become a drink for the masses?
Empire of Tea tells the story of how Britain's national drink and its imperial background helped shape the modern world.

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