Breakfast Links: Week of May 30, 2016
� Art under the microscope: a close-up look at the silver-wrapped threads of a tapestry.
� Not fiction: Elizabeth Bennett, blacksmith at Blenheim 'Castle'.
� The Emperor Nero and the history of sunglasses.
� Was this going to be Marie-Antoinette's home if she'd escaped? Versailles on the Susquehanna.
� Conserving an 18thc gentleman's coat of many colors.
� Image: Florence Nightingale's writing case.
� Brief video timeline of children's shoes from the collection of the Museum of London.
� "Limbs not yet rigid": a history of dissecting the living ::shudder::.
� The 18thc tax on gloves.
� Marital coercion and the wife who got away, 1844.
� Image: 19thc embroidered silk waistcoat with paddle steamers.
� Nineteenth century blogs for stamping embroidery patterns.
� Why the first cremation in America in 1876 was so controversial.
� World War Two through the lens of an African American soldier.
� A selection of early fashion and cloth trade-cards.
� Image: Well, this is awkward....
� Who was the King of the Beasts in New France?
� Sumptuous 16thc Florentine portfolio binding.
� Arson and rural poverty in 1830 - and the grim consequences.
� A fanciful (and terrifying - those insubstantial railings!) view of a future journey by airship from New York to Chicago in twelve hours, 1919.
� Truly retro recipe: ham banana rolls, 1947.
� Image: Good job by the Royal Mail, who managed to deliver this letter in 1898 despite its vague yet artistic address.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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