Breakfast Links: Week of July 31, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Everything you've ever heard about chastity belts is a lie.
• Joys and sorrows: Lewis Hine at Ellis Island.
• Sketches from a journey across Europe in 1817.
• So how many miles in a month did the old wool spinners cover with a walking wheel ?
• The truth about John Quincy Adams' skinny-dipping and reporter Anne Royall .
• Did the invention of the sewing machine mean liberation or drudgery for 19thc women?
• Image: Witnesses: three chestnut trees at Hougoumont bear musket ball scars that prove they were there in 1815.
• On-line exhibition:  Victorian Valentines : Intimacy in the Industrial Age.
• Mapping Dante's Inferno , one circle of hell at a time.
• America's first woman doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.
• Image: Navigate your way around the Roman city of Londinium c AD50 with this interactive map.
• Fashion's attics : in Italy, designers maintain their own archives both for preservation and inspiration.
• " Picturing Places ", a new online resource from the British Library, helps to visualize the Georgian past with images from their collection.
• Benjamin Franklin's London.
• Image: Medieval Italian colored glass drinking horns .
• What  Shakespeare's house  looked like in 1737.
• The lost young love of John Quincy Adams .
• Did Jane Austen develop cataracts from arsenic poisoning?
• Over 120 years later, this garden of glass flowers is still blooming.
• Image: Just for fun - the cover of Enlightened Bride magazine.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection