Breakfast Links: Week of November 28, 2011

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

• Amazing new scans of Audubon's Birds of America: http://bit.ly/chZXdM 

• 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

• 1895: Don’ts for women bicycle riders |http://m-bike.org http://fb.me/UJdUKeGP

• 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

• John Rawlings 1940s color fashion photos *sigh!*http://bit.ly/rNPmvC

• 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

•  Manuscript/transcription of “A Christmas Carol” & audio book now online: http://bit.ly/vQfwIZ

Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898