Queen's Lane Coffee House Explained
Queen's Lane Coffee House is a historic coffee house established by Cirques Jobson, a Levantine Jew from Syria.[1] Dating back to 1654, it is the oldest continually serving coffee house in Europe,[2] [3] but it has only been on the present site (Oxford, England) since 1970.[4] The building in which it operates is a Grade II listed building. It was in this coffee house where Jeremy Bentham discovered Utilitarianism.[5]
In 2009, it rebranded itself as "QL". There is a second, smaller, QL Café. Another Café QL (now called Café Bonjour) in Headington was once owned by the same family but was sold years ago.
The café has been owned by the same family since 1983.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Personalities of the exclusion period . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220510175831/https://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewish-heritage/exclusion-periods-1290-1656/personalities/176-personalities-of-the-exclusion-period . 10 May 2022 . 12 September 2020 . Oxford Jewish Heritage.
- Web site: January 19, 2022 . Oxford's Oldest Coffee Houses . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220813152347/https://www.lovebritishhistory.co.uk/2022/01/oxfords-oldest-coffee-houses.html . 13 August 2022 . 2023-05-06 . . en.
- Web site: Keown . Callum . 1 December 2017 . Europe's oldest coffee house bounces back after being slammed by hygiene inspectors . 2023-05-07 . . en.
- Web site: Jenkins . Stephanie . Oxford History: The High: 39, 40, & 41: Queen's Lane Coffee House . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210803072522/https://oxfordhistory.org.uk/high/tour/north/039_041.html . 3 August 2021 . 12 September 2020 . Oxford History.
- Bentham, Jeremy (1829) Article on utilitarianism: long version, in Amnon Goldworth (ed.) Deontology Together with a Table of the Springs of Action and Article on Utilitarianism, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 291-292.
