Breakfast Links: Week of June 6, 2016

• Dick Turpin , 18thc butcher and highwayman.
• America's bloody history: five famous dueling grounds.
• Why these anatomical models of women are not disgusting.
• The heraldry windows of Chawton House Library, here and here .
• How a chemical engineer returned home from World War Two and created a company that led to the... Tunnel of Fudge .
• Photographs that remind us what polio – now nearly wiped out world-wide – once looked like.
• Image: A c1900 bodice with built-in bust enhancers .
• "The Newsboy is a trifle profligate": sketches of New Yorkers from 1840s.
• A gold "safety pin " from the 7thc BC.
• Louisa Catherine Adams, the first and only foreign-born First Lady.
• Will the last person to leave Regency England in 1816 please turn off the light?
• Image: From an 1880 census , Ellen Adams' occupation is "taking it easy."
• Fascinating obituary for Jane Fawcett , who went from being a London debutante to a decoder at Bletchley Park who helped doom the Bismark.
• For Outlander fans: ten things you (probably) didn't know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites .
• A soldier of the Massachusetts line, 1777.
• Star-shaped Sunday school badge honoring Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.
• Image: Grand Central Terminal, NYC, by John Collier, 1941.
• What would Britain be like today if Charles II had been captured and executed in the 17thc?
• The murder confession of Mary Voce , 1802, which inspired George Sand.
• Discover the hair industry of the past through a 19thc hairwork buckle.
• Gabrielle d'Estrees , mistress of the French Henri IV.
• Stuck on 1962: the ghost advertisements in London's abandoned underground stations.
• Image: Some days, exactly, c1800.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
Published on June 11, 2016 14:00
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