Breakfast Links: Week of March 17, 2014

We hope that Spring is here at last, and not just another day on the calendar, either. Here's our first Breakfast Links of the new season: our weekly round-up of fav links to other blogs, web sites, articles, and images, gathered fresh via Twitter.

• Ready for summer! Beauty & the beach, a guide to 1920s-30s pyjama dressing.

• Walk through 19th c. London with the Museum of London's Victorian street view.

• Artistic cross-pollination: Mughal flower studies and their 17th c. European inspiration.

• A 9th c. bell and its shrine believed to have belonged to St. Patrick.

• Image: We're sure that a typo like this, on the first page of your book, was just as painful in 1830 as it is now.

• Fantastic set of photos of working class Philadelphians, 1910-1940, by John Frank Keith.

• True crime: a Manchester detective and an 1871 London murder case. 

• Eighteenth century recipe for Irish Sack, a treat for mice & men.

• A vintage NYC subway ride (complete with vintage-dressed passengers and ads.)

• Image: Stupid medieval behavior: sawing through the border decoration.

• Not what you think (unless you're from Philadelphia): the humble Irish potato, a St. Patrick's Day ambassador of good will.

• What William Shakespeare's classroom looked like.

• A medieval meal for real.

• Image: Gladys Zielian had The Look in 1919.

• Companions in battle: animals of the American Civil War.

• Happy ending for an old Vermont bookstore.

• A sad tale of 18th c. illegitimacy, and a young mother hanged within weeks of the birth.

• Fascinating history of NYC's 75th Street Riding Academy, built in 1887 - now home to cars, not horses.

• Image: Lantern Walkway, Chester, England.

• Sixty years ago, young women programmed the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer.

• A persistent history myth: the colonial "courting candle."

• A cockatoo perched in a Renaissance painting forces rethink of history & early trading routes.

• All your questions answered about medieval charms.

• A Brooklyn, NY woman's colorful quilt, 1867, reflects her experience of the Civil War.

• Fifteen exquisite historical fashion accessories.

• Harlequins at Princeton.

• A NSFW ebook-download via Guttenberg guaranteed to liven up your reader: The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window & Bog-House Miscellany, a compilation of 18th c. bathroom wall graffitti.

• Image: Pultney Bridge, Bath.

• Greek fire: nine facts about the Byzantines' secret weapon.

• The dark history of Jack Sheppard, an infamous 18th c. criminal.

• A bumpy bike ride to equal rights.

• Five 17th c. women printers and booksellers.

• One writer's rankings of Jane Austen's leading men (and no, we don't necessarily agree.)

• Image: Gorgeous Georgians at the Fashion Museum, Bath, England.

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