Here’s our weekly serving of Breakfast Links, featuring our favorite blog posts, news stories, pictures, and news stories gathered fresh from the twitterverse.
• Cold case at Ft. Anne: Fascinating steps towards identifying a Rev. War solider who died over 225 yrs ago: http://bit.ly/og8BUx
• Hasn't changed for hundreds of years: Annual Swan Upping on the Thames: http://bit.ly/r3LgBY
• Were these Victorian "coffin corners", or simply decorative niches for display? http://bit.ly/qrerAa
• Where's the party? A 1937 evening dress of silk and leather by House of Lanvin: http://met.org/nncFfq
• 18th c. portraitist John S. Copley paints 3 cousins in the same pose & dress also borrowed from an English mezzotint - http://tinyurl.com/3r9awtb
• Utterly awesome gold royal earrings, India, 1st c BC: http://met.org/orEstN
• An extraordinary 16th c. book: A Renaissance Merchant's Life in Clothing: http://bit.ly/qKtRiA
• Magnificent embroidered gown in Jacobean portrait, soon to return to Dunahm Massey: http://bit.ly/nvaSuw
• A confession of despair sewn in tiny cross-stitched letters by a Victorian maidservant, preserved in the V&A http://t.co/7sRXDZg
• Wuthering Heights Classical Comics: http://bit.ly/pLRBX5 to be releasted late August: http://bit.ly/qz0OFf
• Test your nerdy/wordy side, learn size of your vocabulary: http://bit.ly/mNMpQB
• History of UK passports – which in the late Georgian era were written in….French! http://post.ly/2eLP7
• Breakfast in the Regency Era and their Definition of Morning: Jane Austen's World http://wp.me/p6Mf3-4yA
• Broiled bolonga & frankwiches! Mid-20th c housewife haute cuisine: Vintage recipes: http://bit.ly/rdNs5h
• Textile swatches for inspiration http://fb.me/YlaMGT2a
• The Historic Paris Atlas project should be added to any Parisophile's bookmarks, toute de suite. http://bit.ly/p8VYqY
• On 28 July Unspecified Year in 19th c: execution of Tess of the d’Urbervilles http://bit.ly/pvcuu3
• “Unsung heroes of the early space program"- Am. women of color were the skilled seamstresses sewing spacesuits c 1960: http://bit.ly/oNtaUy
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4 comments:
Love that test your vocabulary link! I got just the sort of embarrassing score I expected!
Some great links here. So glad to have found you, I have added you to my blogs Inspiration List. Your newest Welsh follower.
Dianne :-)
YONKS
You're now officially my Sunday morning coffee blog :o) (not that I don't read you every day, because I do) but I can spend hours going through these links.
I loved the swan upping today. I'd love to see that.
That nerdy-wordy test is fascinating - and amazing to see the graphs of the speeds at which we acquire words at different ages.
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