Breakfast Links: Week of January 2, 2012

Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links!  Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse.

• It’s 2012, the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - read about Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebration: http://bit.ly/vatUMq

• The incredibly elegant costumes of Francisco de Zurbarán's 1598–1664 female saints - http://bit.ly/kEqYjR

• 19th century daugerreotype portraits of dogs: http://bit.ly/tKAURP

• Ever considered becoming an 18th tailor? Colonial Williamsburg is looking for a new apprentice: http://bit.ly/vMog06

• Lord Byron was one of the first diet icons, says historian Louise Foxcroft http://tinyurl.com/86hus2t

• If you're hooked on DowntonAbbey, you'll love these 1910s dresses http://bit.ly/rMlAqf

• George VI Coronation portrait early example of 'photo-shopping' http://tgr.ph/yn6XGA

• Fascinating - scientists ID head of French King Henri IV http://on.msnbc.com/AwenwG

• Roman brothel token discovered in Thames: http://dlvr.it/13T5zT and http://twitpic.com/83fpit

• The handwritten prayer book love notes sent by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn before they married http://bit.ly/wFtgWO

• Favorite vintage photo of the week:Top hats & a big gun on the beach c1856: http://bit.ly/wrflM1

• Locavore aristocrats prefer calves heads to beef-stakes for Sunday dinners, 1750 http://bit.ly/x50XCN

• Isaac Newton's sins, 1662: note #2, #8, and #25 http://bit.ly/yWjkPo

• 17th Century Arctic exploration, murder, and polar bears on Bankside http://bit.ly/wO5Wae

• Maria Cosway (née Hadfield) 1759 - 1838, painter, socialite, and a real looker! http://bit.ly/Azf65e

• Spongata - An Italian Minced Pie in Georgian London, 1820: http://bit.ly/A7zN7P

• Jane Austen's History of England as an ebook: http://bit.ly/AEdeOf

• Lincoln and angels/ages: the impossibility of getting at truth in accounts of the past http://bit.ly/zYB1IW

• The baroque interiors at Tredegar House, Newport, are astonishing: http://bit.ly/wCtIFX

Royal loos through time

Loretta reports:

My recent blog about King William III's close stool came to the notice of the Historic Royal Palaces Twitter account, who sent along a link to their YouTube video,  Toilets through time (Or, a royal flush).

 

Wait until you hear the description of King Henry VIII's special throne.  Lots of interesting information in this one, and amusement for all who enjoy scatological humor.

Thank you, Historic Royal Palaces!

Breakfast Links: Week of January 24, 2011

Now that we've joined Twitter, we're discovering dozens of interesting blogs and sites, news stories and announcements, that delight us as Nerdy History Girls. We're sure you'd enjoy them as well – here's a selection of our favorites from the past week.

• Mr. Darcy: How Colin Firth's triumph has fuelled Jane Austen fever http://t.co/uy7XHD8

• Death attacks! The Nightingale monument at Westminster Abbey: http://bit.ly/hbCskq

• Rare books with beautiful fore-edge paintings. Esp. like all the ice skaters. http://bit.ly/fApHtK

• Some we like, some...not so much. Royal wedding dresses from Queen Victoria to 2010. http://tinyurl.com/6a67k5q

• Pretty little ring: Souvenir from the wedding of Queen Victoria in 1840 http://twitpic.com/3t1j3n

• A heart-breaking letter from a condemned father to his son: Charles I to the future Charles II: http://bit.ly/bsVmqM

• Excellent online exhibition from British Library: Ephemera: adverts & posters from Victorian Life. http://ow.ly/3HKZk

• Society and Scandal in Edwardian England http://bit.ly/hpeext

• A day for doomed lovers. Rare love letter from John Keats to Fanny Brawne up for sale: http://bit.ly/hJR54j

• Exciting rediscovery: locket commemorating affair between Lady Hamilton & Lord Nelson: http://bit.ly/hvQp6A

• An 1844 photograph of Waterloo hero the Duke of Wellington http://twitpic.com/3t96gr

• Francis Wheatley's lovely "Cries of London" pictures show street vendors of 1785: http://bit.ly/eAgSfp

• Wonder if these will ever come back in fashion? Spectacular ruffs, 16-17th c.: http://bit.ly/hUlYy6

• Crimson silk, gold lamé, silver leather & diamanté.Great bespoke shoes from the 1920s:http://ow.ly/3Ha85

• Napoleon congratulates Josephine on her (perhaps imaginary?) pregnancy http://on.fb.me/gWDxcW

• Useful for bewildered Americans: How to address a duke: http://bit.ly/idY3pd

• More about Victorian-Edwardian gas lighting, so new-fangled in the PBS show “Downton Abbey”: http://bit.ly/fl7mAQ

• A glimpse inside this private club - and it's gorgeous: the Athenaeum, London - http://bit.ly/fARC3j
• Accents and Dialects of the UK at the British Library. Hear the differences!   http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/

Breakfast Links: Week of January 17, 2011

Now that we've joined Twitter, we're discovering dozens of interesting blogs and sites, news stories and announcements, that delight us as Nerdy History Girls. We're sure you'd enjoy them as well – here's a selection of our favorites from the past week.

• Great news for us in the US: Amanda_Vickery: At Home with the Georgians on DVD to be released 3/11: http://tinyurl.com/66

 • What's YOUR Regency name?: Regency Name Generator: http://bit.ly/cObgDB

 • And now for The King's Overcoat: Interview with costume designer for 'The King's Speech': http://bit.ly/dDZNKj

 • In Philadelphia tour guides believe it's their right to tell wrong 18th c history to visitors, & wow, do they ever: http://bit.ly/ejwmyo

 • Children's clothing in the 18th century: http://bit.ly/gxL5RQ

 • One for the Twitter historians: Seven Dials, London, circa 1780, by William Hodges http://twitpic.com/3r6a6n

 • Download Jane Austen's will from National Archives, part of their searchable collection of wills http://ht.ly/3DfJU

 • Oh, for a closet like this one at Ham House, complete with the paintings & north light: http://bit.ly/hx8ppk

 • Another test: Can you properly dress the Victorian lady? http://bit.ly/eWitLa

 • More costumes - Read about Europe's largest costumier for films like Downton Abbey. http://bit.ly/eFeMOK

 • Happy birthday to Cézanne, born on this date in 1839! More on him and his paintings here- enjoy: http://bit.ly/gqmBZ1

 • Accidents do happen: The Bishop and the Crossbow: http://post.ly/1UmRL

 • Can't resist 'serious' art scholarship: Who is more "ecstatic": St. Robert Plant or St. Theresa? http://bit.ly/e4Atss

 • Start stitching - this is worth it. Make the quilt that Jane Austen made! http://bit.ly/fx8gBY

 • Bustle away! Beautiful 1872 day dress, black w/pink roses, at FIDM: http://bit.ly/gb3TAT

• Costume alert for 18th c Regency & beyond: searchable collection of 1780-1880 pix from British & Am. fashion magazines: http://bit.ly/dXePNg

 • A new mobile app uses The National Archives' records to convert old money to present day values: http://ht.ly/3HNLo

 • Costume Designers Guild nominations: Would you choose these as the best clothes on film last year? http://bit.ly/hqzaLz

Breakfast Links: Week of January 10, 2011

Now that we've joined Twitter, we're discovering dozens of interesting blogs and sites, news stories and announcements, that delight us as Nerdy History Girls. We're sure you'd enjoy them as well – here's a selection of our favorites from the past week.

• Whoa! Thomas Jefferson reports a UFO to American Philosophical Society in 1800: http://bit.ly/g76ZtP

 • Creator of beehive hairdo honored & good thing, too: http://fb.me/PguRDNhl

 • Remember Hatch the #Tudor Terrier? http://bit.ly/emAqs8 Now she's fundraising for a new kennel: http://bit.ly/e3wp6C

 • From author Sara Linsey: more pix from LACMA “Fashioning Fashion”: http://twurl.nl/e2f21y

 • Snow to shovel, again. Here's a far more attractive version from 19th c painter George Innes: http://bit.ly/eIVMAp

 • Amazing dresses that once belonged to the Empresses of Russia. http://fb.me/xhQRfbwR

 • Join Lady Russell in her Winter Pleasures in Bath, Part One http://wp.me/pGJsu-1lW

 • Eating Like an Edwardian: http://tinyurl.com/24hwoyf

 • Great news from Chatsworth! http://www.chatsworthblog.org/2010/12/print-on-demand.html

 • Visit Bath instead of the snowy Northeast: Lady Russell's Winter Pleasure:The Ball-Room of the UpperRooms http://wp.me/pGJsu-1mk

 • Paintings of Opulent European Interiors by American Walter Gay 1856-1937 http://bit.ly/hEhc1j

 • Who wouldn't feel like a goddess in this 1925 Fortuny dress? http://bit.ly/hhV5dU #fashion

 • Hair from Marie Antoinette, G. Washington, Byron, Poe, & Keats: RT @MchlRbnsnBlogs Hair today| Locks of ages ... http://bit.ly/fnFJq1

 • Beautiful greens, beautiful room: Headfort House, Ireland restoration of Adam scheme http://bit.ly/dQlIIL

 • Just come across this great collection of c18th trade cards: http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/searchthecollection/trade_cards_index.html

 • How we nearly lost Charles Dickens Early: the Staplehurst Rail Crash of 1865 http://bit.ly/g5C23E

 • Writing novels offered Victorian women 'advancement'. Lessons from 1895 on how to write fiction book are still relevant. http://slate.me/f1gXTB

• Etiquette quiz: see how you'd do in Downton Abbey society in 1912: http://bit.ly/ePlBco

 • Beautiful way to start the day: A slideshow of an Elizabethan Manor house in Sussex - http://bit.ly/i7YoFf

Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898

Breakfast Links: Week of January 3, 2011

Now that we've joined Twitter, we're discovering dozens of other interesting blogs and sites, news stories and announcements, that delight us as Nerdy History Girls. We're sure you'd enjoy them as well, and thus we're beginning this weekly selection of the best links gathered in our Twitter-ramblings.


• The internet's endless fascination with stays (it's a "magic word" for searches on our blog, too): http://bit.ly/h7lyAQRT
• Ready to elope with that charming rake? A New Years' Trip To Gretna Green http://wp.me/pGJsu-1kg
• Happy 450th anniv. yr. to The Broderers' Company - long live fine#needlework & hand embroidery! http://bit.ly/erYMZl
• Can't we get past the snarky "heaving bosoms"? Women read more than men & buy more books: this is news? http://bit.ly/eXcaQu
• Rock 'n' roll history: efforts to save Ringo Starr's childhood home in Liverpool: http://bbc.in/e2wAzR
• Shocked, we are by thist: Woman claims to have been fired because of historical fiction blogging? Good grief.http://bit.ly/ibk8E2
• Frocks & bikini, ooh-la-la! 1957: Clip: 'COMMONWEALTH FASHIONS MADE IN LANCASHIRE' : http://bit.ly/hFklP
• Now that's frugal: 19th c activist Lydia Child's "American Frugal Housewife" as free download: http://amzn.to/hbUia9
• @ Royal_Armouries: Check out our newly updated image library - including some 19th c. pictures of the Tower of London http://bit.ly/fbYoPO

• Hurray! NPG Thomas Lawrence portrait exhibition coming stateside next month to Yale! http://bit.ly/hnwjbf

• Attn. Dandies, Reenactors, & Seamstresses: 18th c menswear patterns to download at #LACMA: http://bit.ly/fDVGIK Oh that green silk banyan!

• In the footsteps of Will Kempe: morris-dancing from London to Norwich to raise cash for garden http://bit.ly/eFtFfi
• Gold sandals from King Tutankhamun's tomb: http://fb.me/PsdjdC9z

• Brooks's staircase today: http://bit.ly/fHl4P2 The gaming rooms used to be one of the main attractions of this St James's Club


Above: Princess Sophia by Sir Thomas Lawrence