Saturday, December 3, 2011

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

1 comment:

  1. 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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