How the decadence and depravity of 18th-century London was fuelled by hot chocolate

One midsummer’s day in 1750, a man had a seizure in front of the main gate to St James’s Palace and collapsed onto the ... It was just an average day at White’s, ‘the most fashionable hell in London’, a hotbed of decadence, depravity, and ...

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Published: Sun 23rd Dec 2018 11:00 AM