Breakfast Links: Week of February 7, 2011

Happy Sunday! Here's this week's serving of the freshest Breakfast Links, a selection of noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and other curiosities that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse:

• We've gone all hearts-and-flowers looking at the beautiful vintage Valentine’s Day cards from the  collection of the Beamish Museum: http://bit.ly/h9zQtc

 • What's inside an 1885 bustle (and we never would have guessed it looked like this!) http://bit.ly/fsOHgO

 • Royal marriage rules: The laws that bind William and Kate’s romance date to the 1772 Royal Marriages Act:  http://bit.ly/gXrq9F

 • How to Farce a Cabbage, 18th c style. You do have one in the cellar, yes? http://bit.ly/h7uyN9

 • Take a virtual tour of No. 10 Downing Street: http://bit.ly/Xoztt

 • Young Charles Dickens, in honor of his 199th birthday this week: http://bit.ly/dRHqVD

 • Art world agog as private hoard of an unlikely collector comes to light: http://ind.pn/i0LNKw

 • Revamped website for Viscount Fairfax's 18th c Georgian townhouse in York. Great photos show daily life as well as interiors : http://bit.ly/eKcVTB

 • Irish Traditional Music Archive, complete with 78 rpm crackle: http://bit.ly/hQVLcV

 • Tour Handel's House via a slideshow – and yes, Jimi Hendrix's there too: http://bit.ly/e2ITVp (click on 'Show Info' for a commentary)

 • Wonderful stylish sketch of Marie Antoinette c1785 (& an excellent fashion/art blog): http://bit.ly/fR4f9X

 • Amazing ladies in amazing hats, 1859-1927: RT@Visual_History From French Artist Paul Cesar Helleu: http://bit.ly/erJPqg

• Astonishing transformation of 17th c Spitalfields, London, worker's house: http://bit.ly/hyNxaI

• This year's Oscar-worthy film costumes on display in LA, from The King’s Speech to Alice in Wonderland: http://bit.ly/gCNPrf

• Talk about Anglo-American history! This week in 1964,The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan show: http://t.co/zJ5VnpA via @youtube

• A niche subject I admit, but for anyone interested: “A world of sallats:17th Century salads”: http://bit.ly/hgRxAH

• Hugh Thomson, the 19^th c. illustrator of Jane Austen's six novels: http://t.co/q1Q

• London Lives 1690-1800, Searchable database of Londoners: http://www.londonlives.org/index.jsp

• For Gilded Age Millionaires, c. 1900: a nice "little" summer place in Maine w/ 35 rooms & battling footmen: http://bit.ly/epVRxr

• The favorite color for Georgian gardens: “invisible green”: http://bit.ly/dmvhcU