Early Victorian tea set
1840-1845 · Resource
A stoneware tea set made by the Wedgwood factory in Staffordshire, embodying the mass-produced domestic ritual of tea in Victorian Britain. Behind it lie empire and the global tea and sugar trades.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1840
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)