Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links! Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles collected for you from around the Twitterverse.
• Eclipse, born 1st April 1764, died 26th February 1789 - perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time. http://bit.ly/xyshEI
• Growing your own buildings: a 1,500 yr old yew tree with three benches tucked inside - Herefordshire: http://bit.ly/Atzrbd
• The ultimate family feud -- Astor vs. Astor. http://bit.ly/zw9GKq
• Forget Oscars gowns. Pink striped silk ballgown with beautiful sleeves, hem detail c 1820 http://bit.ly/zeJXvV
• The Ghent Altarpiece in ultra-high-resolution. Incredible detail. Zoom in & keep zooming! http://ow.ly/9jqNG
• Excellent slide show: Lover’s Eyes : How Eye Miniatures Became the Mood Rings of the Late 1700s http://vnty.fr/y2XIZG
• The Great Dublin Exhibition of Art & Industry,1851: http://bit.ly/AjSY6B
• Teenage girls of 1940s America: http://bit.ly/xgNEBU
• The art of dry-cleaning in Paris in 1848: http://bit.ly/xK9SWN
• Pastel bowties, too. Are these London's most interesting underpants? http://bit.ly/zmNVnj
• This painting of an 18th c couple in their library holds up a mirror to our own ideals of the civilised life: http://bit.ly/A4amYn
• 10 rules of the anti-flirt club of the early 1920s http://j.mp/yQVtbD
• Turn-Of-The-Century Gym Clothes http://bit.ly/z1nC9x
• Charlotte Brontë's lost short story to be published http://gu.com/p/35z47/tw
• Re-imagining Elizabethan London http://bit.ly/A9K6Ho
• "Bloomers" take advantage of Leap Year, 1862: http://bit.ly/y7SgVz
• Dickens at work as a boy in the Blacking Factory http://bit.ly/xr7EWO
• Knowing the weather at sea by the look of the moon, 17th century style http://bit.ly/wN3I9O
• Sir John Soane's Other Regency-Era House http://wp.me/p13rlt-1qY Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing.
• Debauchery at the Bartholomew Fair http://bit.ly/z8Uc7Q
• An impressively detailed new microsite on the history of Titanic http://bit.ly/xZvCzj
• Undecorated: Heroines of the Civil War http://fb.me/1ExVhPeAy
• An heir & a spare but no love there - Queen Anne of Austria & Spain 1601–1666 - http://bit.ly/A8TAmY
• Amazing 1945 silk dinner-dress by Mainbocher that's straight out of the 1830s: http://bit.ly/wlVP3m
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5 comments:
fascinating! thanks for a few hrs of blissful reading!
That ballgown is just gorgeous! The silk is almost entirely intact and that is rare indeed.
Unfortunately, I can't view the Altar. It's telling me I need to update my browser but I'm on the latest Firefox so I don't know what the problem is.
I love the teen girls from the 40's. Though I wasn't born quite yet, I remember having to wear boy's jeans and when 'girls' jeans first came out.
The 1945 dinner dress is wonderful. There's a catalog out there called Reflections that has period dresses and there are so many times I wish I could just wear their clothes. Of course, one has to be rich and so, considered eccentric to do so. Otherwise, dressing that way now just makes people think you have a screw loose.
And I'm SO excited! The Titanic Exhibition is coming to the Henry Ford Museum at the end of March. Though I live 20 minutes away and am a member, I might just make a two day thing of it and stay there so I can to the Titanic exhibit one day and Greenfield Village the next.
Pure Joy!
Great links today. Thank you. :o)
that was a fascinating article about Eclipse. here's a link with more info on horse racing breeding
http://www.nonthaburihorses.com/thoroughbredhistory.htm
thanks, thea
Look forward to each of your offerings. Who said History is boring? Thank you!
Look forward to your list every Monday. Keep spoiling us. Please!
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