Breakfast Links: Week of February 19, 2018

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Considering a single, surviving  silk shoe , made in London c1760.
• Adventures in  19thc knitting  (as told by a 21stc knitter following an  1875 pattern .)
• Remembering when  London's pubs  were full at 7:00 am.
• The remarkable story of  James Hamilton , born at Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution, and killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
• The  Fisk Jubilee Singers : preserving African American spirituals.
• How  Victorian governesses  were in danger from their employers.
• Image: In case you thought  Georgian gentlemen  were all nobility and good manners....
• Amazing story of the revival of  Pawnee Eagle corn,  thought to be extinct.
• Rare  Roman boxing gloves  found near Hadrian's Wall.
•  Student discipline  at Amherst College 200 years ago for offenses that included "an opprobrious inscription upon glass" and drinking cherry rum.
•  Robert "Romeo" Coates : a very bad Regency actor.
• One of the oldest trees in Manhattan: the " Hangman's Elm"  in Greenwich Village.
•  Founding Father firepower : metal intended for statues of George Washington was used to arm the Confederacy.
• Image: Delightful  "puzzle purse"  Valentine, c1810.
•  Cornelia Sorabji , the first woman to practice law in both India and Britain.
•  Edward Dando,  the celebrated gormandizing oyster-eater.
• The man who lived and died in his wife's  Brooklyn tomb .
• Recreating  Georgian tent follies  from c1760.
•  Francis Scott Key : A young man and his portrait.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection