• Before she was famous: Jane Austen in the newspapers.
• Dolley Madison, Washington's first power hostess.
• "Full fathom five the poet lies": the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
• Everything has its history: a timeline of American burlesque.
• The dandies of White's in the Regency era.
• Video: Rembrandt's self-portraits from age 22 until his death at age 63 in 1669.
• The dragons are back on the Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens, London.
• A treasury of historic clothing: undressing the royal and aristocratic funeral effigies in Westminster Abbey.
• An 1804 Regency recipe for Pomade Divine.
• The odd link between Thomas Hardy, the Man with Two Heads, and Mary Shelley.
• Video: This writing table once belonged to Marie-Antoinette.
• Image: Entertaining (and we hope posed!) c1900 photo of young women fooling around with firecrackers.
• Newly discovered schoolboy sketches by John Leech, illustrator for Charles Dickens.
• Even Founding Fathers can have their hearts broken: on the road through Europe with Gouverneur Morris.
• How did Word War One recruitment posters persuade Americans to enlist?
• Image: Metal & leather convertible straight-backed steamer trunk, c1890.
• Searching for stolen Nazi gold and treasure in the mountains of Poland.
• The medical history of rhubarb around the world.
• Friends in grief: Martha Washington and Elizabeth Willing Powel.
• Image: A silk textile curtain sewn into a 13thc Bible to protect the delicate gold leaf illumination.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection
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1 comments:
Excellent! The exhibition called "World War I Beyond the Trenches" is important for Americans of course, but even more important for the Allies who were exhausted and depleted by 1917. My grandfather, his brothers and first cousins thought they would all die, if the Americans did not join the Allied effort.
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