Breakfast Links: Week of October 17, 2011

Served up fresh for you, our weekly offering of Breakfast Links: our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, all collected for you from around the Twitterverse.

• Punch & Judy (Cruikshank's 1828 etchings) http://bit.ly/n4SSAz 

• Kaboom! The London Beer Flood of 1814. http://bit.ly/bhvAgT

• Braids and bows: Edwardian girls' hairstyles: http://bit.ly/nwo0VO

• Jockey Silks and Spectators; explores the historical roots of horse racing apparel http://ow.ly/6ZNzv

• The Duchess d'Uzes, a 19th c "valiant artist-sculptor," at work : http://bit.ly/rtok4L

• 'Body of Evidence: Proving Infanticide in Early Modern England' - http://wp.me/p14Gvd-pL

• Gorgeous Regency painted penwork sewing box - (Worth a look, as cannot afford to buy it!) http://bit.ly/orKcIg

• A brief history of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes & tintypes: http://ow.ly/713Bs

• Elegant small stable c 1871somehow survived in mid-town Manhattan: http://bit.ly/ncSgUC

• Previously little-seen (and saucy) portrait of Nell Gwyn included in an exhibition on the first actresseshttp://tinyurl.com/3uymjlf

• For manly sporting gentlemen in the late 19th c: the Norfolk jacket:http://bit.ly/obBejw

• A different kind of attraction at Los Angeles Zoo, with a carousel of endangered animals: http://lat.ms/pXWs0N

• A manuscript miscellany of poems gathered by Anne Campbell ca.1600 http://bit.ly/rpMSTl

• Have you ever wondered why pencils are yellow? http://ht.ly/70b1J

• Rude, lewd & obscene drawings of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's favourite mistress - and what they reveal besides the obvious: http://bit.ly/pmDsCa

• An unsolved 19th c murder in NYC's wealthy elite & the now-ravaged mansion where it happened: http://bit.ly/nnnaoM

•  Drinking Whiskey In The Spirit Of George Washington http://n.pr/nIHFuC

• 11 Blows on His Buttocks - Bizarre customs of a 17th Century Printing House http://bit.ly/qLOBZS

• Writing tables as 17th century cutting-edge technology: Renaissance smartphones. http://bit.ly/ndgsMH

• “Spades, Umbrellas — Even a Tiny Pair of Child's Shoes — Everything” Victorian Pawnbroking:http://bit.ly/pz9Lyb

• You've just come upon a trove of #CharlesDickens letters! Which one will you read first?http://bit.ly/ouZAeT

• Every pearl, rhinestone, & bead is visible on exquisite 1954 gown by the House of Dior—zoom to see:http://tiny.cc/temdx

Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898