'Traditional' tea at Huffkins and an abolitionist who's weapon was ceramic not metal.

When i'm at home in the Cotswolds we often like to meet for tea with friends or as here with my mum. Huffkins is a successful tearooms with shops in Stow on the Wold and Burford, well worth a visit if you're in the area. 

They prefer to serve loose leaf tea and provide you with a tea strainer, this somehow makes the experience more novel and exciting somewhat, seeing that the tea strainer is not a common utensil in many modern households. I definitely prefer this ceremonious way of serving tea as it harks back to the time when taking tea was an event coinciding with a visit to acquaintances and a chance to gossip! Not to mention out do each other with the quality of your tea service set. This reminds me of an item in the imperial war museum to do with the abolition of slavery. Whereby women who did not possess political powers could show their support by using tea cups with images of slavery and mottos of the abolitionists.

Josiah Wedgwood a world famous ceramics manufacturer was a, less well known but equally passionate, activist in promoting the campaign to end slavery. In one of the most remarkable marketing campaigns of the day he created a medallion with the saying, "Am i not a man and a brother?" The medallion showed a black slave kneeling and praying to God. The medallion was distributed throughout Britain and Wedgwood even sent some to Benjamin Franklin the President of America at the time.