• A packet of seeds and a sheet of music called "Romances d'Estelle": part of the prize included in a Dutch ship captured by the British in 1803.
• Anne of Green Gables goes to war.
• A hundred-year-old handmade American flag flies home...to Scotland.
• Analyzing the fashion details in an 1830s portrait of a Susan Brown Moody.
• The trashy, expensive, contradictory reputation of leopard print.
• Image: A 1789 cyanometer that measured the blueness of the sky.
• How to suppress the writing of women like the Brontes: "She only wrote one good book."
• Wojtek, the bear who went to war, and linked together the heritage of Scotland and Poland.
• The Household Book of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, can tell you who came to dinner on Sunday, May 13, 1431.
• Image: A Hayden concert ticket from 1792, signed by the composer.
• Elizabeth Arden thoughtfully (!) provided these hints in 1943 for how women in the military could adapt their hairstyles to their uniform caps.
• Shakespeare and marriage, in his plays and in his own life.
• Repurposed stone first shaped by Roman builders discovered in a medieval Saxon vault.
• Traces of a famously lost ninth-century Bible turn up in a 1474 printed book.
• The torrid love letters of famous authors.
• Image: Rediscovered in a London church, an original Waterloo Fund collection box for aid to the wounded and families of the fallen at Waterloo.
• Discovering the history of the Ram Jam Inn, and its links to notorious 18thc highwayman Dick Turpin.
• An interactive map with merpeople sightings, 1610-1784.
• Eveline, Elsie, Agnes, and Joan: May Queens through time.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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I loved Anne of Green Gables as a child, but I was never aware of her later novel dealing with the horrors of WW1. Nor was I aware that it was not until WW1, 50 years after the nation Confederated, that Canadians "bonded together as a nation". While this view of history replicates the Australian experience of loyalty to the British Empire and the creation of Australian nationalism, it will require more reading on my behalf.
I regret to inform you that your link to the Elizabeth Arden article was blocked by an aggressive attempt by Blogger to sign up new blog writers - on Blogger, of course.
I love Breakfast Links. They are the highlight of my Sunday mornings and always keenly anticipated. Pity about Blogger's intrusion, though. How they think that such tactics will succeed in recruiting, I can't imagine.
In any case, more power to your historical elbows!
Ken
Dear Anonymous -
Grrrrr........! I have no idea why that link went to Blogger. That has happened before, and I suspect that it must have something to do with this blog being hosted there. Maybe after every thousand links I post, Blogger believes they should get a freebie.
Anyway, I found the Elizabeth Arden one again through other channels, and corrected the link. Here it is as well: http://hagleyvault.org/post/173452252340/on-national-hairstylist-appreciation-day-were
Thank you for your kind words for the Breakfast Links! I enjoy putting them together - not only do I get to share all this cool information with our readers, but I also love being able to shine the Breakfast Links spotlight on some wonderful but lesser-known blogs and sites so they get the extra traffic.
(We won't talk about how the Breakfast Links are the terrible proof of how much time I spend/squander on Twitter, but hey....)
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