Breakfast Links: Week of September 28, 2015

Fresh for your reading pleasure - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The Hackney whipping post.
• Selling corsets door to door, 1890.
• Second-hand wedding shoes from a time of post-WWII austerity.
• Lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies: American slavery myths debunked.
• Image: Carrying the Papal Umbrella, 1464.
• Coveting clothing: six women and one theft in 18thc. London.
• From patrons to chefs: a history of women in restaurants.
• A rare 1921 "vestal virgin" costume from a ceremony dedicating a WWI memorial.
• Come see, come sew: vintage books on handicrafts.
• "I fell down the stairs": marital violence, material culture, and space in the long 18thc.
• Image: Teacups on the ceiling at Cassandra's Cup in Chawton, opposite Jane Austen's house.
• Very necessary in 19thc. America: Mahlon Day's Originary Counterfeit Detector, 1828.
• When Rudyard Kipling's son went missing at the Battle of Loos, 1915.
• Finding "buried treasure" in a rare book library.
• Yale launches new archive of over 170,000 photographs documenting the Great Depression.
• Why Jane Austen never goes out of style.
• Image: Humorously staged stereograph photo of a seance interrupted by a ghost, 1894.
• The remarkable story of Britain's first woman doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. And more here.
• This is amusing: an interactive Georgian celebrity map.
• Beautiful photographs: twelve places where the Blood Moon looked better than from your house.
• The Strasburgh exorcism hoax, 1807.
• Image: The 14thc. Octagon of Ely Cathedral, which would be impossible to duplicate today because there are no trees tall enough.
• Finding a place to reconcile a painful past: three historical "sites of conscience."
• Quiz: Which of these outlandish 19thc. newspaper titles are real, and which are fake? Here are the answers.
• Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), early American author and feminist.
• The handwriting of a future queen: Elizabeth I, age 19, wrote this letter to her half-brother EdwardVI shortly before his death in 1553.
• The 12thc Lewis Chessmen are probably the best-known archeological find from Scotland.
• Image: Silver-winged red rubber 1920s bathing shoes.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.