Breakfast Links: Week of May 30, 2011

A new month, and another collection of our favorite links to blogs, news stories, videos, and photographs that we've collected via Twitter. Please click away!

• Photos of people in the past at their very silliest: http://bit.ly/ljwq4b

• When werewolves roamed the Renaissance http://is.gd/YCGa3e

• Dumfries House, wonderful project http://ow.ly/54Pyh Lots of lovely detail and pictures

• The Influence of Franklin's "Join or Die" Cartoon http://nblo.gs/irabg

• Remains of 13th c Scottish "Amazon", 4 others killed in battle discovered at Stirling Castle: http://bit.ly/kCCxDg

• Falconry http://bit.ly/iVyujP (beautiful mid-19th c. lithos of raptors/hoods)

• Charming pix of East Lancashire Railway's 1940s weekend in Bury. Vintage dresses out in force http://tinyurl.com/3on354o

• First World War soldiers writing letters home: http://bit.ly/lHpHAf

• Sad & poignant - but amazing details of lower-class Victorian clothing in photos. Newcastle Criminals 1871-1873: http://tinyurl.com/3p3a

• Sleepy Shade for Sweet Repose - Mostly way-over-dressed Victorian ladies in hammocks - http://bit.ly/jD6Hpq

• One of most beautiful unicorns ever: http://met.org/iOMjn5

• Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray", in new uncensored edition - or is it? http://bit.ly/iUoj73

• The Edwardian Millinery of Caroline Reboux http://bit.ly/jehpGB

• The mythology of the forbidden fruit explored in perfume presentations. http://fb.me/12lO5HLn7

• Amateur sleuth discovers site where Sir John Millais painted famous Ophelia : http://bit.ly/irSxMb

• Elizabeth I's great seal, designed by Nicholas Hilliard: http://bit.ly/mpe6af For more info see http://bit.ly/iCr95A

• A few thoughts on Elizabethan swordplay & a really cool video: http://bit.ly/mFDHeY

• A Georgian Airstream? http://bit.ly/mtSLY5 is on a lovely handbill featuring a travelling house on wheels.

• Ancient Romans? Catherine de Medici? Martha Washington? Howard Johnson? Who DID invent ice cream? http://bit.ly/k5k8gE