Breakfast Links: Week of September 5, 2016
� Did Regency ladies ever get sunburned?
� The surgeon's porcupine, c1830.
� The teen-aged midshipman was also His Royal Highness Prince William, and the first British royal to visit North America, 1781.
� So cool: see the reading habits of Aaron Burr, others, by searching the books they borrowed from the New York Society Library.
� Transferring designs for embroidery in the 18thc.
� The Book of Sir Thomas More: Shakespeare's only surviving literary manuscript.
� When ancient Romans had their clothes stolen, they responded with curse tablets.
� Image: Sarah Bankes boldly wrote her name in the front of her book, 1649.
� Inside the 300 year old model of St. Paul's.
� Scrapbooking Waterloo: Thomas Pickstock's travel journal, 1843.
� Caleb Brewster crosses the Devil's Belt: secrets of the Culper Ring, a Revolutionary War spy ring.
� Women in 1066: the power behind the throne.
� "Under cross-examination, she fainted": sexual crime and swooning in the Victorian courtroom.
� Image: Patchwork quilt featuring a stunning collection of printed dress cottons, 1820-1840
� The case of the "Ghost Sculptor", 1883.
� How Alexander Hamilton (and other 18thc Americans) did breakfast.
� Elected in 1887, Susanna Salter was the first female mayor in the US.
� Dogs in the 19thc press.
� Video: Check out these bicorn hats from the Museum of London.
� The history behind eleven exotic words from the world of fashion.
� Mud, blood, and vegetables: the soldier "farmers" of World War One.
� Plain work and stolen finery, 1837.
� Vive la comfort! For corseted 18thc courtiers, this dress was a French revolution.
� Image: What was on the menu for a BBQ in Portsmouth, RI in 1766?
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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