Serving up a big ol’ serving of Breakfast Links for your pleasure – our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, all collected this week from the Twitterverse.
• 'An eccentrical lady': Mrs Griggs of Bloomsbury http://t.co/AOfX6Qu Proof that eccentrical cat ladies are ETERNAL.
• The lucky ladies who carried Queen Victoria’s train at her wedding were given symbolic eagle brooches: http://t.co/9
• No one wants to grow up to be a cowboy any longer:”Richard Scarry’s The Best Word Book Ever”: compare editions from 1963 & 1991 - http://t.co/vKKz3YP
• Letter to Pres. from Annie Oakley offering services of 50 lady American sharpshooters http://t.co/twWSmI1
• Paintings of early American Women in Classic & Turquerie Costumes reflecting English precedents - http://t.co/G
• Origins of Eau de Cologne, an 18th c fragrance: http://t.co/a
• Exploring the short and melancholy life of Jewish poet and novelist Amy Levy: bit.ly/pX2Eho
• Part of a beautiful embroidered 18th c waistcoat- but for a gentleman, or from a lady's riding habit? http://t.co/A8jzEJP
• "Red House", an 1904 luxury apt. building in NYC that pretends to be English country estate via terra cotta Tudor: bit.ly/mWx913
• The History of British Sauciness. More than 1000 naughty postcards! http://t.co/Qn3ZZWl
• Not easy! How to curtsey at a court presentation: http://t.co/G
• Search for passengers that made their way through Ellis Island: http://ow.ly/623Gy
• Lucile Ltd. (aka Lady Duff Gordon) wedding dress sketches (1920s) http://t.co/2
• Storyteller: Woman restores home that has been in her family for hundreds of years: http://t.co/q
• What a great resource: 300 years of concert programmes! http://t.co/NRXTlme
• Black Death study lets rats off the hook http://t.co/HBCp2
• The Versailles Menagerie & its inhabitants' fate in the Revolution: http://t.co/K
• Best "item removed" museum sign ever: http://t.co/N (from the Harvard Museum: http://t.co/tf1ceBY)
• Scandal sold newspapers 200 years ago, just as it does today: http://t.co/x
• Fancy yourself a Tudor stylist? Learn about Henry VIII's clothes in this video http://t.co/kCKwQ9r
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5 comments:
I wanted to comment on yr post yesterday but the button didn't work. BARRY LYNDON is one of my all-time favorite movies and it was great to see it here!
You find the best links! That Annie Oakley letter is priceless. Thanks for the round up.
Oh I have a copy of that word book! Mine has English and German words in it.
And from yesterday I really want to see Barry Lyndon!
I hope you'll permit one more remark regarding "Barry Lyndon." I have always had a weakness for films with narrators. They're like sinking into a wonderful, long Victorian novel, aren't they?
Loved the links today. The plague one really interested me. I was never quite sure with the speed it spread that fleas could have been the prevailing carrier, but then again, I'm no scientist either.
And that waistcoat! Just gorgeous!
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