Breakfast Links: Week of June 25, 2017

• Stalking Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1838...or maybe it wasn't a fan?
• Revealing the face of Tudor Dublin .
• Oh, patch . That time when the French aristocracy was obsessed with fancy face stickers.
• Finding Elizabeth Hooten , an itinerant prophet in 17thc New England.
• The Wynyard Ghost story.
• Image: Spectacular 1750s court mantua .
• The wine-fueled destruction of Charles II's fantastic sundial .
• Joseph Crouch, "a Body Snatcher since a child."
• A feline Scottish war veteran was one of the "famous cats of New England", 1921.
• Indomitable women: American trailblazers, Mexican revolutionaries, and death .
• Blackballed in Regency England.
• Daniel Boone's homestead : a Kentucky frontiersman's Pennsylvania roots.
• Stitching history: ashion sketches made decades ago by a Holocaust victim finally brought to life.
• Marie Antoinette and her Hameau de la Reine.
• Image: Patchwork dressing gown made for a recuperating World War One soldier by his mother.
• Ten reasons why Gouverneur Morris was the oddest of the Founding Fathers.
• A brief history of the Napoleonic Wars told in ten hand-held fans.
• Aphra Behn , the 17thc spy who became the first successful female professional writer.
• How did the Elizabethans spend their summers?
• How Regency clothing was cleaned and repaired.
• How an electrician's visit led to the discovery of Toronto's oldest home .
• Image: Gorgeous! Angel Oak tree in South Carolina is 1,500 years old.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection
Published on July 01, 2017 14:00
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