Breakfast Links: Week of February 28, 2011

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

• An Interview with Louise West, Curator of the Jane Austen House Museum.: http://t.co/02C

• The impressive shell of Felix Hall, Essex, burnt out in 1940: http://bit.ly/g80pN5 - seems so temptingly restorable...

• Stunningly beautiful photos of the medieval York Minster: http://fotofacade.com/?p=2677

• Just in time for Oscar night! How Colin Firth are you? http://is.gd/LkBbvz

• Here's some bedtime reading. Two late 17C wide-boy property developers: Nick Barbon and Tom Neale. http://tiny.cc/9y4kf

• Cincinnati Art Museum - American circus poster exhibition http://bit.ly/e9yR9F

• Woodcut: Girls Night Out 17th Century style: http://twitpic.com/44q8h1

• Pleased to announce Tyntesfield in Somerset is finally free of scaffolding, Watch the fantastic time-lapse footage here http://bit.ly/eACwZw

• International Women's Week Commemoration for Suffragettes in Bath: http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/about/news/default.asp?article=890

• Unlikely facts: Brixton has a Georgian windmill, the only one to survive in inner London - and it's being restored. http://bit.ly/gbbxnP

• Brief history of tailor heaven: the history of Savile Row http://bit.ly/hPk7nK

• Today in 1692, Salem witch trials began. Here are New England minister Cotton Mather's opinions on witches. http://bit.ly/cn4rXw

• Sarah Scaturro, Cooper Hewitt’s textile conservator, discusses eco-merits of...wait for it...polyester. http://bit.ly/gG2xIJ

• Mad for this! Helena Bonham Carter's fabulous fan purse from the Oscars, by Lulu Guiness: http://on.fb.me/i66qn0

• 'Who is it That Does Dictate the Fashions?' Where is a lady to shop? http://bit.ly/hy5iei

• Check out this guest post on Craftzine about the history of women and sewing! http://bit.ly/gwdyK6

• Calendar Girls from 1785: http://ow.ly/472qe Before there was Vargas there was Dighton

• How the Bell Flowers on Princess Charlotte's Court Dress Were Made: Jane Austen's World http://t.co/Mj4

• Feast your terrified eyes. Colour photos of Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage http://bit.ly/gX9Qi5

• What would a businesswoman in 1700's New York sell? Look like? See here: http://bit.ly/fCko7p

Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898