Breakfast Links: Week of June 23, 2014

Hot off the griddle (even on the hottest summer day) - our weekly round-up of fav links to other blogs, web sites, articles, and images, all gathered from around the Twitterverse.
• Fashion victims: ten of the deadliest shoes and accessories of the 19th c.
• A dream of toasted cheese: 19th c. author Beatrix Potter's early scientific interests.
• Charles Dickens's signature and seal on his 1837 contract with Chapman & Hall to publish The Pickwick Papers - high resolution and zoomable.
• Pocahontas, fantasy and reality: why so many people still need the Indian princess.
• Fascinating new site debunks the many things supposedly said by the Founding Fathers.
• Image: A good old-fashioned 18th c. slagging match...whoever said people were more polite in the past were wrong.
• The anatomizer's ground: uncovering the dark history of St. Olave's,  Silver Street, London.
• Fabulous 18th c.  fans from the collection at Snowshill Manor.
• Diary of a 1930s housemaid in an English country house.
• Anna Maria van Schurman, 17th c. painter, engraver, poet, & scholar, had to hide behind a screen to lecture at university.
• A heroic bride in Brooklyn, 1906.
• Lady Hester Stanhope's melancholy, 1815.
• Road workers in eastern China found a mysterious box underground - and this was what was inside.
• Image: A close-up of an 1897 photograph showing a smiling Queen Victoria with a white parasol.
• A brief history of why we take oaths on books - and whether e-books count.
• The forgotten theatres of Victorian London.
• Rev. William Dodd, the 'Macaroni Parson', who ended his life on the gallows.
• Provocative reports of the death of Lt-Col. James Abercrombie, highest-ranking British soldier to die at Bunker Hill.
• Image: William Bligh bullet rations weight after 1789 Bounty mutiny.
• It girl, oops, and sexpert: twenty words that originated in the 1920s.
• To butcher a hog, 18th c. style.
• The hunt is on for Battle of Waterloo descendants for 200th anniversary in 2015 - are you one?
• You've got to wonder who was advising Grace Dalrymple Elliott when she created the Bellona Cap in 1786.
• Image: Waistcoat of a Honourable East India Company captain, sewn from one of his wife's petticoats and featuring silk embroidery from India.
• In which J.Edgar Hoover warns all the kids to get off his lawn.
• Carrie Nation, a 175-pound, six-foot-tall self-described "bulldog" of a woman who smashed bars.
• Conserving & digitizing nine tiny volumes made by Charlotte Bronte and brother Branwell as children.
• Women stockbrokers are still in the minority on Wall Street; imagine how unusual they were in the late 19th c.
• Uncle Arthur Wellesley? He's not all that..."Wicked" William Long-Wellesley goes to war, 1808.
• Our favorite image of the week: a colorized photograph of Broadway in Saratoga Springs, NY, c.1915.
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