Historic Cafes Route makes the first step to establish the Route’s Scientific Committee at Oxford University at the United Kingdom
HCR President Arnold Klingeis and His Excellency Giles Portman at the United Kingdom Embassy in Bucharest
By following the path of history, we find that the first café in Oxford — The Grand Oxford Coffee House — opened in 1650, two years before London saw its first coffee house, Pasqua Rosée’s establishment in St. Michael’s Alley (1652). Oxford University thus became the first higher education institution in Europe and, arguably, the world to offer professors and students the novel experience of enjoying coffee.
The Oxford University was the first higher education institution on the continent and worldwide that offered to professors and students already back in 1650 the very new experience for those times - enjoying a cup of coffee that was available just for students, many of them enjoyed a cup of coffee while being a student and changed afterwords humanity by their scientific contribution to human kind evolution, while experiencing a cup of coffee at Oxford University!
William Murray: Prospect of Christ Church, College Oxford | Source: Wikipedia
In 1605, Oxford was a walled city with several colleges outside the city walls (north is at the bottom) | Source: Wikipedia
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II prohibited English students from attending the University of Paris.
As early as 1650, Oxford students could be found sipping this new beverage - Coffee. A stimulant that would accompany many of them on their journeys toward discoveries and innovations that profoundly shaped human progress.
