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• An Indian chintz gown: fashion, status, and slavery in 18thc America.
• Image: An exquisite hairnet of gold, a superb example of a Hellenistic goldsmith's talent and skill, c200-150 BC.
• Coffee houses, taverns, tea, and chocolate in Restoration London.
• An extended family of stay-makers (corset-makers) living and working in 18thc London.
• Real estate history: when Trinity Church ruled lower Manhattan.
• Image: Silk damask gauze shoes from Chinese royalty that look surprisingly modern - yet are 800 years old.
• Imposters in history: sixteen famous con-artists and pretenders.
• Culture in the early American classroom: a failed attempt at assimilation.
• Fashion + competitive masculinity = the codpiece.
• Elizabeth Keckley: businesswoman, philanthropist, and dressmaker to a president's wife.
• Image: From these drawings, it's clear that 19thc artist Gericault had a very bite-y cat.
• The dipping and drinking wells of Hyde Park.
• Film star: a classic Baltimore movie palace shines again.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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2 comments:
The post "Coffee houses, taverns, tea and chocolate in Restoration London" is fascinating, particularly for historians who love the era and love the drinking theme. This is a topic I come back to often.
Alas I could not find the date, author's name or comment section.
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Hels
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I love it that you provided the link to the discussion to Little Women. It is one of the half dozen favorite books of my childhood, and I read it several time as I was growing up. I knew that not many boys read it, but I was not aware that schools were turning their noses up at it as well. Yes, I think schools ought to try to appeal to the reading tastes of boys, but not at the expense of girls.
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