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On December 16 1773, a group of American protesters destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the British East India Company by throwing the tea into Boston harbour.

The Boston Tea Party became hugely symbolic – a precursor to the American Revolutionary War, it emboldened would-be American revolutionaries and appalled the British Government.

In this talk commemorating 250 years since the Boston Tea Party, Daniel Gosling examines the documents held here at The National Archives that record this political and mercantile protest. Discover the responses of the British Government to the incident and the consequences it had.