• Magnificent Kensington Palace reopens after renovations.
• Edwardian adolescence of 8th Lady Berwick - wonderful photos from family album.
• Slideshow of Charleston, SC doorways, of every color and description.
• Georgian shopping: Handwritten receipt for teas and spices bought at Vale's in London, 1767.
• Spectral imaging of a possible Shakespeare signature: is it his?
• A 23-year-old socialite in Georgian England contemplates vegetarianism, c 1741.
• Tudor graffiti from the Tower of London.
• Drawing the Civil War - forgotten battlefield artist Edwin Forbes (1839-1895.)
• Photo of proud woman college graduate in Belfast in the 1880s - blog of old Irish photos.
• On the road in Shakespeare's England: travelling players, mistrelsy, and spies.
• So you know: where the word "snark" originated, via Lewis Carroll.
• This week in 1812: the Morning Post publishes an article calling Prince Regent "Prortector of the Arts" & Maecenas of the Age."
• Cover of first English Vogue, September 1916.
• True status bags! Purses of office, those splendid & strange symbols of power.
• Photo may be key finally to what happened to lost aviator Amelia Earhart
• "It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder": Napoleon had duc d"Enghien shot 3/21/1804.
• A 200 year old corner grocery store in Greenwich Village, NYC.
• Early 19th c Boston camellia craze.
• More about women wearing handkerchiefs in the 18th c.
ª Titanic in the movies: from Nazi propaganda film to blockbuster.
• The Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth, plus dogs, 1938 & 1985.
• This week in 1812: Bess Foster advises her son, Byron scandalizes, & another war looms - and they're all connected.
• Lovers, sympathetic & otherwise, by Woodward & Rowlandson, 1797-98.
• Serious beds! The upward thrust of the baroque, as seen in the state beds at Beningbrough Hall.
• Inadvertently hilarious news clip warning against perils of 70s platform shoes.
• Hoard of 30,000 silver Roman coins discovered in Bath.
• For a special Edwardian evening: wear this 1912 tunic dress & this 1910 coat.
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5 comments:
I wish I wrote the same way that receipt is written. What a beautiful hand. It's a shame they 'simplified' cursive.
I found the graffiti really interesting! It must have been graffiti left by the wealthy because it's almost all in Latin and I doubt many of the poor would have been able to do that. Then again, most of the prisoners were political so...
Thanks for another great bunch of links :o)
I know who Edward Forbes is! Last summer I cataloged a collection of Civil War ephemera. I found a large folder of some of his plates that had been removed from one of his books. He was quite famous in his day.
That 1912 tunic dress is so beautiful.
Simple yet stunning.
I would have never known of the existence of such handbags as those if it weren't for your links!
I agree with nightmusic, I wish I had the handwriting of that receipt.
look again at the receipt, it's even more interesting than for teas and spices, it's haberdashery
Sarah, you're right - zooming it, I see the receipt includes silk, cotton, and needles! (congratulations, you're the newest curator at the Walpole Library *g*)
I wonder if Vale's was a classic 18th c millinery shop - selling all sorts of small goods & not just hats. Anyone out there know?
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