Breakfast Links: Week of November 7, 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.

• Sotheby's London to offer an unpublished autograph manuscript by Charlotte Brontë: http://bit.ly/scCQ6G

• Landscapes still scarred by WWI battles.http://bit.ly/tSfrkp

• “The sting of a hornet”; Edwardian hat-pin self defencehttp://j.mp/sDLlPx

• The London Gazette was first published in 1665 & survives to this day: http://bit.ly/v7hHy7

• Mae West on skinny women, c.1934http://bit.ly/tOiDFj

• Did you know there was a NY Crystal Palace c 1853 in answer to the one in Hyde Park? http://bit.ly/utjEUg

• The working life of Museum of London - Dressing Daughter For Dinner, c 1934 http://bit.ly/volW2A

• Martello tower, Pevensey Bay, Sussex, built c 1804-1812 to defend against French invasion: http://bit.ly/rOFdax

• Wellies, cardies, macks, tarmac, bowlers ... the real-life people behind some everyday objects http://bit.ly/uKQb2B

• An elegant embroidered pelisse, c 1820: http://bit.ly/uAWXLJ 

• The Lord Mayor's Show, 9th November 1779http://bit.ly/sdCJxQ• Rare photo of Brighton Pavilion used as a hospital in WW1:http://flic.kr/p/aCaz6j

• The case of the Regency card racks in the collections of the National Trust - as unraveled by comment-posters: http://bit.ly/vo0hHo

• Fabulous online exhibit about Napoleon's scientific expedition to Egypt: http://bit.ly/uHSR7x

• Heraldic colors: See how Cinderella crept into this post (with a prompt from a reader) http://bit.ly/t6kKM7

• "To make a rich Seed Cake called the Nun's Cake" - 18th c recipe plus video from the cooks at Colonial Williamsburg: http://bit.ly/vdE4tm

• Rioting women in the Highlands during the C19th- http://tinyurl.com/d2bh4qn

• The Lincoln Mantua gown, 1730s, its conservation and Spitalfields silk - http://bit.ly/t4gqlB

• Excellent short video: Exploring Hogarth's restored house with Lars Tharp http://bbc.in/v2v9Ub

• The "greatest curiosity of the day" in 1817: Toby the Sapient Pig: bit.ly/udrvP8

Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898