Breakfast Links: Week of February 15, 2016
� Touching love-letters from sailors at sea.
� Wonderful: The friendship book of Anne Wagner, compiled 1795-1834.
� Street life in Victorian London, captured in photographs.
� History of a chair that probably belonged to John Hancock.
� The introduction of anesthesia: imagine surgery without it.
� Curious 18thc cats.
� Image: The 1587 death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scotts, signed by Elizabeth I.
� Parcels and boxes: 19thc textile shopping.
� A 1765 complaint about a wife eloping begins an investigation into an unhappy marriage.
� Not entirely accurate, but still interesting: the Belle Epoque body-con dresses that shocked early 20thc Paris.
� In the 15th-17thc, earwax was considered both versatile and useful.
� Thackeray's own original drawings for Vanity Fair reveal points not mentioned in the text.
� Who invented the first false eyelashes?
� Image: Marie Antoinette's Green Library from Versailles.
� The problem with "always" and "never" in historical costuming (and really history in general.)
� Courting and romance in the 18thc press.
� Forget the groundhog - according to Anglo-Saxon calendars, February 6 is the last day of winter.
� Five lovely letters on the pleasures of reading and the benefits of libraries.
� Image: Word War One poster warning against spies.
� Was Charles Dickens the first celebrity medical spokesman?
� As "White Mouse", Nancy Wake was among the most decorated secret agents of the World War Two.
� The noisy Middle Ages.
� What do Thomas More, Hans Sloane, and a Moravian burial ground have in common?
� Junk mail is nothing new, as these 19thc examples show.
� Did Martha Washington really have a tomcat named after Alexander Hamilton?
� Image: Block and axe from the Tower of London that was also used as a child's chair in a Yeoman Warden's quarters!
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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