The Social and Cultural History of the Coffee House in the Ottoman Empire With Professor Mehmet Kalpaklı, Bilkent University
Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Coffee houses in Istanbul were places of social gathering – conversations were had, backgammon and chess played, and books and poems read aloud. From here, coffee houses spread through Europe – opening in Venice, Paris, London and Vienna – but they never strayed far from the Istanbul model.
