Breakfast Links: Week of February 29, 20016
� Fantastic collection of pictures of women at work during World War One.
� George Washington, hairdresser.
� The persistence of high heels through fashion history.
� Virginia Poe's sad acrostic valentine for husband Edgar Allen Poe.
� Love boats: the delightfully sinful history of canoes.
� Merging 18thc fashion with modern sensibilities to create the costumes for the Broadway hit Hamilton.
� Dashing World War One pilots smiled for the cockpit cameras.
� Image: Carved shell sewing kit from Paris, 1815-1820.
� George Cruikshank's 1867 illustration showed British society as a beehive.
� The art of giraffe diplomacy.
� How did Napoleon escape from Elba?
� Poignant 1,800 year old letter from a Roman soldier serving far from home.
� How cat hair brought down a pair of art forgers.
� Historical insults, thanks to the Oxford Dictionaries.
� How 43 giant, crumbling presidential heads ended up in a Virginia field.
� What did female friendships in the early 20thc. have to do with international relations?
� Image: A London bookseller's bill, 1727, for the equivalent of $25,000.
� From World War Two parachute to the world's most romantic wedding dress.
� Does sleep have a history?
� Disability in the 18thc Foundling Hospital at Ackworth.
� "And did those feet in ancient times....": cat paw prints discovered on a 17thc map of Japan.
� Ten things you probably don't know about the Queen's House in Greenwich.
� Image: A rare slashed silk doublet from 1620, one of only two that have survived.
� Playing at women's liberation, World War I, and colonialism through vintage board games.
� "Imprudent acts and great bastards": sex advice from 1861.
� Medical quackery: bloodletting.
� Mid-19thc comic manuscript illustrating verb tenses.
� A closer look at Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Fight by Johann Zoffany.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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