Another Sunday, and another week's serving of the freshest Breakfast Links – a selection of noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, and news stories that we've discovered via the Twitterverse. Please join us if you’re on Twitter, too – we can be found at @2NerdyHistGirls.
• Fantastic new website for fashion history, full of gorgeous images. Check it out: http://bit.ly/iXnnkU
• That most rare of the rare: the Jane Austen bobble-head: http://bit.ly/lF0JSX
• The Necropolis Railway Station in Victorian London: http://tinyurl.com/64v8367
• We want to go! A trip to Brighton Pavilion (includes video): http://wp.me/pGJsu-1FJ and here: http://bit.ly/laiTXW
• Fancy being a Lord? Lordship of Bisham manor up for sale: http://t.co/YasfsVZ
• Beautiful examples of an important aspect of early American underwear: http://bit.ly/m9JVlM
• Fantastic new 'Your Paintings' website http://bbc.in/gLLdpc - 63k paintings online!
• The high price of 18th c powdered hair, and the bills to prove it: http://bit.ly/k7UEYQ
• Captain Cook's Goat - "who twice the world had traversed round": http://bit.ly/jtvSnY
• What became of the baby daughter of Henry VIII's widow Katherine Parr? Unravelling a Tudor mystery: http://bit.ly/kyuheD
• Though thou write with a goose-pen - Examples of the handwriting of Marlowe, Jonson and Donne http://bit.ly/ikd4yX
• We can't let the Longest Day go by without reference to a 'self-styled archdruid' http://bit.ly/klyImA
• How can Amazon ever compare to this bookstore? http://bit.ly/mcmY6f
• "Many men feel it as a slight upon their sex": Bachelor girls, c 1911: http://bit.ly/knB9ai
• Book Returned to Library 122 Years Late - wouldn't like to pay the fine! http://fxn.ws/khdry5
• The politics of a monkey-fur coat, 1938: http://bit.ly/lq4wSH
• For summer & sports: Ventilated corset, c1871 with openings & cotton-cased boning - http://bit.ly/muv4Dc
• Beautiful paintings & fashions: Women artists during the French Revolution: http://tinyurl.com/6fynqpy
• Luxury in the middle of the Depression:1930 Vanderbilt House, NYC: Excellent photos, fascinating article.
• "I was to be Empress": Details, history of the Hapsburg Imperial Bridal Veil http://bit.ly/k3zXVp
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