Happy #NationalTeaDay! To celebrate, we& #39;re going to share some of our favourite literary facts about tea...

‘Scandal-broth’ and ‘chatter-broth’ were both nineteenth-century slang for tea, as was ‘cat-lap’. ‘Scandal-broth’ features in Sir Walter Scott& #39;s Peveril of the Peak (1823) #NationalTeaDay

Samuel Johnson, who defined tea in his 1755 Dictionary as & #39;A Chinese plant, of which the infusion has lately been much drunk in Europe& #39;, was known to drink up to 15 cups of tea in one evening #NationalTeaDay

One of the earliest recorded references to anyone in England having a cup of tea is an entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary on 25 September 1660: & #39;And afterwards did send for a Cupp of Tee (a China drink of which I never had drank before)& #39; #NationalTeaDay