We’re thick in the middle of summer’s heat now, but we’re still dishing up a fresh serving of Breakfast Links for you. For your enjoyment, here’s our latest collection of links to blogs, web sites, pictures, and news stories gathered this week from the Twitterverse.
• First-person account with details of travel, inns, & meals: A Journey to Bath, 1784. http://post.ly/2NMeP
• Photographic 'proof' of fairies in 19th c garden: The Cottingley Fairies - http://tinyurl.com/62724ee
• Story you probably don't know c 1859 about John Brown’s Body, Douglass, Emerson, & Thoreau via Am. Antiquarian Soc. : http://bit.ly/rmbfcv
• Even if you can't read the text, the pix are great! Badminton in Art: http://bit.ly/oPCdpA
• No “nice girl” wore these 19th c boots: http://bit.ly/pmFsJu
• A palatial mansion built for the ages that didn't last 50 years: Riverside House, 1906, NYC: http://bit.ly/rrVkWl
• Seeing inside antiques: Showing more strange & wonderful x-rays of objects at Knole: http://bit.ly/o6vkuM
• Pirate William Fly, much-admired by his peers, hanged in Massachusetts on 12 July 1726 http://ow.ly/5AUMf
• This extraordinary French Art Deco mural http://met.org/rhbkgK was executed for the ocean liner Normandie c 1934
• "The Man Monster": A seductive cross-dressing thief causes a furor in 19th c NYC: http://bit.ly/nqQpAn
• The Panorama: Georgian iMax http://bit.ly/b8QzYT
• "Married in fun & tied together in earnest", 1890: http://bit.ly/nnfGzP
• Navigate around London in 1827 by way of Greenwood's Map- http://ow.ly/5DSNT
• Only one wall, but likely enough to haunt Charles Dickens: Marshalsea debtors' prison remains http://tinyurl.com/65yqqy8
• To cure the plague drink marigolds and treacle - the Plague in Shakespeare's England http://bit.ly/rfLXR1
• Elegant black & cream: Historic Dress of the Day: Emile Pingat, Ball Gown, c.1860, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC http://bit.ly/qcvXIm
• The reverse of an C18th Australian convict love token shows a chained bird, symbolising a jail bird: http://bit.ly/n2GNru
• 18th-Century American Women - Fashion - Classic & Turquerie Costumes - http://tinyurl.com/6b9xxgv
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