The day bananas made their British debut

Thomas Johnson's banana illustration CREDIT Wikimedia Commons

Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick, marks the 385th anniversary of the day bananas were first shown to Londoners by charting the fruit's fascinating story

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