Breakfast Links: Week of May 7, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• A packet of seeds and a sheet of music called "Romances d'Estelle": part of the  prize  included in a Dutch ship captured by the British in 1803.
•  Anne of Green Gables  goes to war.
• A hundred-year-old handmade American flag flies home...to Scotland.
• Analyzing the fashion details in an 1830s portrait of a Susan Brown Moody .
• The trashy, expensive, contradictory reputation of leopard print .
• Image: A 1789 cyanometer that measured the blueness of the sky.
• How to suppress the writing of women like the Brontes : "She only wrote one good book."
• Wojtek , the bear who went to war, and linked together the heritage of Scotland and Poland.
• The Household Book of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, can tell you who came to dinner on Sunday, May 13, 1431.
• Image: A Hayden concert ticket from 1792, signed by the composer.
• Elizabeth Arden thoughtfully (!) provided these hints in 1943 for how women in the military could adapt their  hairstyles  to their uniform caps.
• Shakespeare and marriage , in his plays and in his own life.
• Repurposed stone first shaped by Roman builders discovered in a medieval Saxon vault .
• Traces of a famously lost ninth-century Bible turn up in a 1474 printed book.
• The torrid love letters of famous authors.
• Image: Rediscovered in a London church, an original Waterloo Fund collection box for aid to the wounded and families of the fallen at Waterloo.
• Discovering the history of the  Ram Jam Inn , and its links to notorious 18thc highwayman Dick Turpin.
• An interactive map with  merpeople  sightings, 1610-1784.
• Eveline, Elsie, Agnes, and Joan: May Queens through time.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.