Breakfast Links: Week of March 28, 2016
� Highlights from Jane Austen's Bath, a popular recent exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, are now online.
� Parties for plastic: how Tupperware encouraged women to participate in business.
� Blackie, the last Spitalfields Market cat.
� Born a slave, "Stagecoach" Mary Fields was the first African American woman to deliver the mail - and she did it in the Wild West.
� Cape Cod sea captain Elijah Cobb meets the French Revolution's guillotine and lives to tell about it, 1794.
� It's doll wash day for the Bowes Museum's conservation department.
� Image: Oldest surviving photograph of London - Whitehall from Trafalger Square, c1839.
� Salaries, dragons, and musk: the surprising origins of spice names.
� Swaddling: putting babies in a tight bind.
� Who's keeping an eye on those 18thc Loyalist refugees to Canada?
� From pulp to fiction: our love affair with paper.
� How good is your British English?
� Image: Pocket watch recovered from Titanic steward Sidney Sedunary, marking the time he went into the water at 1:50a.m.
� The mysteries of 18thc beds and bedding.
� A purple accident and its vibrant impact on the modern world.
� English friar Thomas Gage's chocolate recipes and regimen, 1635.
� The witch and her bucket: Mary Spencer and the Lancashire witches.
� The university library that protects the world's rarest colors.
� Image: Sampler featuring St. Paul's Cathedral, worked by Mary Wearmouth, aged 11, in 1860.
� The 19thc Cutty Sark's crew and the women on shore.
� A rare and elaborate pack of 15thc. playing cards with a hunting theme.
� A Sketch from Private Life: Lord Byron's poem about his disastrous marriage.
� In Seattle's Panama Hotel, untold stories of Japanese history remain.
� Just for fun (or not!): Dante's Inferno test predicts where exactly in his Hell you deserve to be.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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