Breakfast Links: Week of October 23, 2017

• The ghost of Kit Carson: women's history along the Santa Fe trail.
• Medieval graffiti : demon traps, spiritual landmines, and the writing on the wall.
• Emily Dickinson , poet and baker.
• "The Hatpin Peril " terrorized men who couldn't handle 20thc women.
• Inside London's sumptuous Drapers' Hall .
• Image: This 1770s porcelain macaroni's wig bag is bigger than the archway (though not perhaps his fashion sense.)
• What does the painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis have to do with author Edith Wharton ?
• Final telegraph transmissions from on board the Titanic .
• Explore the diaries of Miss Fanny Chapman , a 30-something single woman living with her aunt in Regency England.
• George Washington's mausoleum : Congressional debates over the work of monuments.
• Video: "I remember the interior of that cabin": how the curators at Monticello used a diary to furnish a reconstructed slave cabin .
• The "petting parties" of 1920s flappers that scandalized many Americans.
• Death takes wing: birds and the folklore of death.
• The poet Shelley's spyglass , found in the wreck of his boat.
• Eradicating smallpox : history in objects.
• Image: A daunting to-do list from Thomas Edison's 1888 journal.
• Lord Nelson's lasting legacy in London.
• Eliza Ross, the forgotten female "burker," who, with her partner, had murdered her 84-year-old lodger to sell her body to anatomists, 1831.
• Skull cup associated with Lord Byron heads to auction.
• Image: Princess goals: Prince Margaret's morning routine, 1955 (from the book Ma'am Darling by Craig Brown.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection
Published on October 28, 2017 14:00
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