Saturday, October 1, 2016

Breakfast Links: Week of September 26, 2016

Saturday, October 1, 2016
Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The amazing 19thc butter sculptures of Caroline S. Brooks.
• A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history.
• The mystery of the phantom page-turner.
Native American captive Elizabeth Hanson,  a Quaker mother in 1724 New England.
Explore all the treasures of the Red Drawing Room at Blenheim Palace in 360 degrees.
Skeleton of a teenaged girl confirms cannibalism at Jamestown.
Image: Gold leaf on Coptic shoes, making a fashion statement while strutting the streets of ancient Egypt.
Fingerspitzenformer, otherwise known as a late 19thc fingertip shaper. Really.
• Danger and the amorous woman: prostitution in 19thc Britain.
• An inspired pot.
• Many questions from the title alone of this 1892 advice book to read online: "How to Get Married Although a Woman, or, The Art of Pleasing Men" by a Young Widow.
Image: Enchanting c1915 autochrome portrait of a lady happily surrounded by her books.
• Inside the old-fashioned world of New York's vintage girls.
• Benjamin Franklin's silver court sword is coming up for auction.
• Why John Hancock's signature was so big and other hands FAQs about the Declaration of Independence.
Image: Bonnie Prince Charlie's stunning silver-hilted broadsword, found on the battlefield after the defeat at Culloden.
• Domestic and imported woolen cloth in a medieval town.
• The Wolf's Water, coming from a historic London pump.
Queen's House, Tower of London: the most complete high-status, timber-framed building in London that predates the Great Fire of 1666.
The Countess Greffulhe, Proust's fashion queen, reigns again in a new exhibition.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a lovely article about paper-knives! Thank you for linking it. I love reading about an object's actual purpose being found out, and truth winning out over myth! It just totally makes my day that the Bodleian not only still has books with uncut pages, but lends out paper-knives so people can actually read them! Even the title tickled me; I want to read one of my old Nancy Drew books now. :-)

Dee

 
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