Breakfast Links: Week of March 15, 2015

Fresh for your weekend browsing - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images, all collected for you via Twitter.
• Seven-year-itch: evidence suggests Henry VIII was considering taking a seventh wife.
• This British temperance bar doesn't serve beer, but you can try blood tonic.
• Anne Mee, 18th c. portrait artist.
• Math, knitting, and feminism: how knitting is being reclaimed in the modern age.
• Image: An entire garden, complete with butterflies, embroidered in silk on this 18thc. gentleman's waistcoat.
• From the 18thc. garden: broccoli and cardoon uncovered.
• George Washington jumping rope and sharing his bed with a black soldier? Maybe not.
• Growing up Duke.
• Fishwives and firestarters: a guide to old Billingsgate.
• An introduction to hairwork.
• Image: A view of Chiswick House gardens with bagnio and domed building alleys, by Pieter Rysbrack, 1729.
• An alternative Japanese Cinderella: the girl with the kneading bowl (not the pearl earring.)
• Gallery of exceptional marbelized papers.
• Twenty-one dresses: a treasure trove of early 20thc. Callot Soeurs dresses. More here.
• Hidden on a downtown Manhattan Street, a small Federal-style house has survived since 1826.
• St. Patrick's Day and green street names in London.
• Image: The Channonier Cordiforme, a French heart-shaped manuscript of music and songs, c. 1470.
• Learn about the over 200 Irish manuscripts in the British Library.
ª "Everyone is badminton mad here!" A sporting craze sweeps 1870s British India.
• The Masonic Female Orphan School of Dublin, Ireland, 1792-1892.
• Seven things you might not know about the Duke of Wellington.
• A real-life Tudor mystery: why did the cook try to poison Bishop John Fisher?
• This 1915 postcard emphasized the femininity of the suffragists.
• Image: A little scary: there IS such a thing as a Samuel Johnson gif.
• View a slideshow of the work of artist Mary Cassatt.
• For the next time you watch Outlander - here's a recipe for 18th c. shortbread.
• Founded in 1889, the Thirteen Club aimed to end superstition.
• "Ranked among the incurables": a late 19th c. brotherly warning.
• Image: Awesome faces: Scottish beards in the Crimea.
• "Bring beauty into your bathroom": a stylish 1930s vanity.
• Gervase Thompson: a most unfortunate death, 1781.
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