Breakfast Links: Week of May 14, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The art and mystery of 18thc mantua-makers .
• The poet John Keats , and cats.
• Whitewashing ancient statues .
• The fast and the feminine: women, cars, and advertising.
• Eighteenth century ships unearthed in Alexandria, VA offer glimpse of colonial era.
• Image: A rare and possibly unique 17thc document stating that a Dorset woman, Joan Guppy, is not a witch .
• Isaac Henry Robert Mott , piano-forte maker in Victorian London.
• When literary classics are packaged as pulp fiction.
• The Bohemian heiress who shattered 19thc taboos.
• A trove of " letter locking ," or vintage strategies to deter snoops.
• The curious history of mommy-and-me fashion.
• "The scourge of evil": the persecution of witches at Edinburgh Castle.
• The rare, surviving sento, or bathhouse inside Seattle's Panama Hotel, an important relic of Japanese-American history.
• Ann Roberts , foster mother to a king - at a terrible sacrifice, 1910.
• National Geographic's digital archive has every map ever published in the magazine since 1888.
• The legend of Pope Joan , who reputedly gave birth during a papal procession.
• When King George VI broke the lock to the New Bodleian library.
• This trunk filled with unread letters from the 17thc is an historian's dream.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.