We're back with more stories about the tiny psychoactive seed that changed the world and continues to shape our lives today.

In Series Two, we reveal how the invention of the coffee shop revolutionised societies, why colonialism, racism and coffee have kept once prosperous Haiti poor today, how Italy's revered espresso culture was created, and we debunk many myths around America's supposed love affair with coffee.

If we want to make coffee a more equitable industry that’s also kinder to the environment, a place to start is understanding the stories and systems that put the coffee into your cup this morning.

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A History of Coffee is a collaboration between documentary maker James Harper of the Filter Stories coffee podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.

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This free educational content was made possible with the support of Rancilio, manufacturers of professional Italian espresso machines for almost 100 years.

Join us live at the London Coffee Festival 2023! We have three time slots for you to choose from: Saturday, 22 April, 11:00-11:30 and 14:30-15:00, and Sunday, 23 April,14:30-15:00.

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Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

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We have an exciting announcement....AND, a story about Sri Lanka and coffee history we think you're really going to like.

Sri Lankan coffee has delicious notes of chocolate and caramel. But it’s basically impossible to find, and we’re going to bet you’ve never drank it.

But that's really odd, because Sri Lanka has the perfect climate to grow coffee, and was once one of the biggest coffee growing countries in the world.

But Sri Lanka was the victim of an ecological ticking time bomb. And this bomb is still ticking, and is going to explode again.

In this episode of Adventures in Coffee, producer James Harper takes co-hosts Scott and Jools on an adventure back in time, across Ethiopia, Yemen, Sri Lanka to trace the origins of this ticking bomb, and what it’s going to take to defuse it.

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Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ here: https://amzn.to/3dihAfU

A massive thanks to Lawrence Goldberg of Hansa Coffee, Ajantha Palihawadana, Professor Stuart McCook and Harm van Oudenhoven.

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Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

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Coffee has a fascinating history stretching back hundreds of years. But tea takes it to the next level, stretching back thousands.

And it too was colonised by Europeans with huge repercussions that we are still feeling today.

We hope you enjoy episode 11 from the excellent The Tea History podcast: Europeans Discover Tea, produced by Laszlo Montgomery.

Listen to the rest of The Tea History Podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3BnDjgr

Explore Laszlo's The Chinese Sayings Podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3BiITAT

Discover The China History Podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3GTekmd

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Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

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Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

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The reason we can enjoy it every morning is because it's relatively cheap, and many people suffered under European colonisers to create systems that produced this cheap coffee.

But unfortunately, that's just the beginning. Colonialism has stripped enslaved and indigenous people of their language, pushed their descendants into work that a modern European would never do, and created racial ideologies that persist and harm people of colour to this day.

In this bonus episode of A History of Coffee, documentary maker James Harper moderates a conversation between Professor Peter D'Sena, a leading historian from the decolonising academic movement, and Professor Jonathan Morris, author of Coffee: A Global History.

They explore how colonialism shaped coffee, and what a cup of coffee that seeks to address the damage of colonialism would look like.

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If you an educator and are interested in decolonising your curriculum, Peter wrote a guide here: https://link.filterstories.org/3cvoH3l

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Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e

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Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

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Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

We are hard at work on the bonus episode about decolonising coffee history.

But...in the meantime, here's an episode from a sister podcast we think you'll enjoy.

You can listen to more episodes from Adventures in Coffee here: https://link.filterstories.org/300V4jS

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Do you grind your beans fresh before brewing your coffee? If so, you are helping overturn a race-to–the-bottom with deep roots in colonial extraction that today is leaving millions of coffee farmers impoverished.

Or, at least, that’s what many specialty coffee companies would like you to believe. The truth is a lot less rosy.

In this final episode of A History of Coffee, Jonathan and James explore where the specialty coffee movement came from, whether it will succeed in arresting coffee’s race-to-the-bottom, and look into the future to understand what might be the future of coffee.

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Music featured in this episode:

La Traviata, Brindisi (Verdi) by MIT Symphony Orchestra: https://link.filterstories.org/3eGUsIf

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly by Ann Alee: https://link.filterstories.org/2SKlaY6

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

When was the last time you bought a coffee that was Fairtrade certified?

Certifications make it easy for consumers to put their ethics into practice. But, hidden beneath the glossy sticker is a maze of complications and paradoxical outcomes.

In this fifth episode of A History of Coffee, Jonathan and James explore where coffee certifications came from, how they tried to stop coffee’s devastating race to the bottom and assess whether they succeeded.

A History of Coffee is a collaboration between James Harper of the Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.

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Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

How do you drink your instant coffee? If you’re like most of the world, you fill your mug with milk and sugar to sweeten the taste.

By adding milk and sugar to your instant, you helped bring new growers - and consumers - into coffee, but arguably contributed to a crisis that left hundreds of thousands of people malnourished.

In this fourth episode of A History of Coffee, Jonathan and James explore how the popularity of instant coffee dramatically alters the balance of power amongst coffee growing countries. Coffee as a global commodity takes on a life of its own, sweeping millions of farmers into a race to the bottom.

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A History of Coffee is a collaboration between James Harper of the Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.

Visit Jonathan’s Instagram (https://link.filterstories.org/37eMS3F) and Twitter (https://link.filterstories.org/3jNr9ou)

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Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e

Coffee and brewing equipment featured in this episode

1930 and 2020 “World Blend” roasted by Smiths Coffee (UK): https://link.filterstories.org/3rtR2g1

Comandante hand grinder: https://link.filterstories.org/3qmTSCN

Sage electric grinder: https://link.filterstories.org/2Zf3NyC

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

A hundred years ago one Brazilian man owned so many coffee trees he could fill every inch of a European country with them.

But why does Brazil grow so much? And who is drinking these lakes of caffeine?

In this third episode of A History of Coffee, Jonathan and James explore how industrialisation dramatically and permanently strips away Brazil’s forests, and why coffee becomes a part of the American dream.

A History of Coffee is a collaboration between James Harper of the Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Instagram live session where we unpack how the British produced coffee in Sri Lanka, and why so many Indians die.

Visit Jonathan’s Instagram (https://link.filterstories.org/37eMS3F) and Twitter (https://link.filterstories.org/3jNr9ou)

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Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ here: https://amzn.to/3dihAfU

Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e

Coffee and brewing equipment featured in this episode:

Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz, Boa Vista, Dom Viçoso. Roasted by Supremo (Germany): https://link.filterstories.org/37UW79u

Comandante hand grinder: https://link.filterstories.org/3qmTSCN

Sage electric grinder: https://link.filterstories.org/2Zf3NyC

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Why do we get upset when we’re charged €36 for an ordinary cappuccino?

The answer flies us to the Caribbean where white Europeans make black Africans suffer.

In this second episode of A History of Coffee, we uncover how colonialism squeezes the price of coffee, and how that changes European culture forever.

A History of Coffee is a collaboration between James Harper of the Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Instagram live session where we unpack how the British produced coffee in Sri Lanka, and why so many Indians die.

Visit Jonathan’s Instagram (https://link.filterstories.org/37eMS3F) and Twitter (https://link.filterstories.org/3jNr9ou)

& James’ Filter Stories Instagram (https://link.filterstories.org/2Mlkk0O) and Twitter (https://link.filterstories.org/3baTsJk)

Help other people find the show by leaving a review on...

Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/3jY42aJ

Castbox: https://link.filterstories.org/38sXdcH

Read Jonathan’s book, ‘Coffee: A Global History’ here: https://amzn.to/3dihAfU

Listen to other coffee documentaries on James’ Filter Stories podcast: https://link.filterstories.org/3ajoT5e

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.

Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.

Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here. 

"Seize the Moment", the tabletop device from DiFluid that guides your customers through their coffee as it cools. Use code FILTER and this link to get 10% off.