Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links! Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse.
• Which version of this gown do you prefer? Emily Roebling's portrait: http://bit.ly/tvBKJp or the actual gown: http://bit.ly/vGCg76
• History of Tea in England & Her American Colonies - http://bit.ly/tkYigS
• "Blind House", Shrewton, Wilshire - an all-stone 18th c village lock-up (gaol): http://bit.ly/sneMN0
• Benjamin Franklin shocks himself while trying to kill a turkey: http://bit.ly/rBkQHt
• Vauxhall Gardens, two hundred and fifty years ago. http://bit.ly/sTzbeP
• Is it wrong to end a sentence with a preposition? http://oxford.ly/vtW0Te
• Dieting - not in the 1950s! Love these vintage 'Weight Gain' ads http://bit.ly/vyYKLm
• Stubborn food myth: Native Americans taught 17th c Pilgrims how to pop corn: http://bit.ly/w1FDMq
• Fashion curator Beatrice unpicks Cole Porter song & discovers a world of side-cars and brassières:http://bit.ly/vq8cbu
• "The Measure of Man": Concise, useful history of the Doric Order:http://bit.ly/tro4F9
• Medieval Women, Death, & the Sacraments:http://bit.ly/tASvYs
• Saving Captain Asgill: the fate of a young British soldier who crossed swords with George Washington – & needed Marie Antoinette to intercede: http://bit.ly/uHaWF8
• Dinner delayed, or friends betrayed? Records get suspiciously sketchy for london dining club, 1694: http://bit.ly/szKmlE
• Just launched: Millions of historical newspapers now available to search online at http://bit.ly/iSH0Fm
• A pair of pistols finally return to Dunster Castle – pistols date from the period of the Glorious Revolution: http://bit.ly/tXxG5X
• On 1 December 1655, 22 yr old Samuel Pepys marries 15 yr old Elizabeth de St Michel: @HistoryTodayhttp://dlvr.it/yXZLy
• Trousered before his time? A Brummell myth debunked! http://post.ly/15Y3d
• Who brought the Christmas tree into Britain? (hint: not Prince Albert) http://bit.ly/v4bkp0
• Life Magazine explains how wives should undress in front of their husbands, 1937: http://bit.ly/v937So
Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898
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1 comments:
The Vauxhall Gardens illustrations are wonderful, but I didn't see one tiny little hand on a breast or up someone's dress in the Rowlandson. I'm almost disappointed! ;o)
And the newspaper archive is fantastic! Thank you.
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