Breakfast Links: Week of January 3, 2011

Now that we've joined Twitter, we're discovering dozens of other interesting blogs and sites, news stories and announcements, that delight us as Nerdy History Girls. We're sure you'd enjoy them as well, and thus we're beginning this weekly selection of the best links gathered in our Twitter-ramblings.


• The internet's endless fascination with stays (it's a "magic word" for searches on our blog, too): http://bit.ly/h7lyAQRT
• Ready to elope with that charming rake? A New Years' Trip To Gretna Green http://wp.me/pGJsu-1kg
• Happy 450th anniv. yr. to The Broderers' Company - long live fine#needlework & hand embroidery! http://bit.ly/erYMZl
• Can't we get past the snarky "heaving bosoms"? Women read more than men & buy more books: this is news? http://bit.ly/eXcaQu
• Rock 'n' roll history: efforts to save Ringo Starr's childhood home in Liverpool: http://bbc.in/e2wAzR
• Shocked, we are by thist: Woman claims to have been fired because of historical fiction blogging? Good grief.http://bit.ly/ibk8E2
• Frocks & bikini, ooh-la-la! 1957: Clip: 'COMMONWEALTH FASHIONS MADE IN LANCASHIRE' : http://bit.ly/hFklP
• Now that's frugal: 19th c activist Lydia Child's "American Frugal Housewife" as free download: http://amzn.to/hbUia9
• @ Royal_Armouries: Check out our newly updated image library - including some 19th c. pictures of the Tower of London http://bit.ly/fbYoPO

• Hurray! NPG Thomas Lawrence portrait exhibition coming stateside next month to Yale! http://bit.ly/hnwjbf

• Attn. Dandies, Reenactors, & Seamstresses: 18th c menswear patterns to download at #LACMA: http://bit.ly/fDVGIK Oh that green silk banyan!

• In the footsteps of Will Kempe: morris-dancing from London to Norwich to raise cash for garden http://bit.ly/eFtFfi
• Gold sandals from King Tutankhamun's tomb: http://fb.me/PsdjdC9z

• Brooks's staircase today: http://bit.ly/fHl4P2 The gaming rooms used to be one of the main attractions of this St James's Club


Above: Princess Sophia by Sir Thomas Lawrence