This raw, uncut Britishness I’m talking about is the fact that every British tank made since WWII has on-board equipment specifically designed to make tea.

Economic Policy The slow death of the most British thing there is May 4, 2016 More than 9 years ago Summary (Rachel Orr/The Washington Post; iStock illustration) By Roberto A. Ferdman ...

Afternoon tea is a quintessential British tradition, combining elegance and indulgence with a selection of finger sandwiches, scones, and sweet treats. Served with perfectly brewed tea, it’s the ...

A Hindu servant serves tea to a European colonial woman in the early 20th century. The British habit of adding tea to sugar wasn't merely a matter of taste: It also helped steer the course of history.

This and other incidents led the British army to outfit, as soon as 1945, new Centurion tanks with "boiling vessels," special water boilers that allowed for shorter and safer tea and food breaks ...

I'm not just talking about a properly brewed cuppa — though even that, by some accounts, is losing ground to coffee — delightful and rejuvenating as it is.

As Lord Beckett, the villainous, tea-and-sugar-sipping agent of the British East India Company in the Pirates of Caribbean movies might have put it, "it's just good business." (Such good business, of ...