• Dick Turpin, 18thc butcher and highwayman.
• America's bloody history: five famous dueling grounds.
• Why these anatomical models of women are not disgusting.
• The heraldry windows of Chawton House Library, here and here.
• How a chemical engineer returned home from World War Two and created a company that led to the...Tunnel of Fudge.
• Photographs that remind us what polio – now nearly wiped out world-wide – once looked like.
• Image: A c1900 bodice with built-in bust enhancers.
• "The Newsboy is a trifle profligate": sketches of New Yorkers from 1840s.
• A gold "safety pin" from the 7thc BC.
• Louisa Catherine Adams, the first and only foreign-born First Lady.
• Will the last person to leave Regency England in 1816 please turn off the light?
• Image: From an 1880 census, Ellen Adams' occupation is "taking it easy."
• Fascinating obituary for Jane Fawcett, who went from being a London debutante to a decoder at Bletchley Park who helped doom the Bismark.
• For Outlander fans: ten things you (probably) didn't know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites.
• A soldier of the Massachusetts line, 1777.
• Star-shaped Sunday school badge honoring Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.
• Image: Grand Central Terminal, NYC, by John Collier, 1941.
• What would Britain be like today if Charles II had been captured and executed in the 17thc?
• The murder confession of Mary Voce, 1802, which inspired George Sand.
• Discover the hair industry of the past through a 19thc hairwork buckle.
• Gabrielle d'Estrees, mistress of the French Henri IV.
• Stuck on 1962: the ghost advertisements in London's abandoned underground stations.
• Image: Some days, exactly, c1800.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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2 comments:
In schools in the early 1950s, there was always at least one child who had suffered polio and was trying to live a normal life amongst their peers.
The art of hair jewelry is alive and well, although not terribly widespread.
Here's a link to a wonderful hair artist: http://www.lucyshairwork.com/
She has made a modern pendant for me and will also be making the interior weave to fill an antique brooch. Having lost my hair to chemo, it's a good way to grieve my former self.
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