Breakfast Links: Week of September 17, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of favorite links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• " Telling the bees ": In 19thc New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one's death.
• Wynflaed and the price of fashion: a rare 11thc manuscript will describes one woman's wardrobe.
• Alexander Hamilton and the lacemaking industry of Ipswich, MA.
• Felix Nadar in the gondola of a balloon - and how this carte-de-viste was intended to help promote his costly ballooning ventures.
• Not for the shy: spectacular tartan  Lord of the Isles suit worn by the Duke of Windsor.
• Image: Rose gathered between the trenches on the Western Front, 1918, and more on the 19-year-old  soldier who sent it home to his sweetheart.
• Jane Austen's curious banking story makes her an apt face for the £10 note.
• Creole comforts and French connections: a case study in 18thc Caribbean dress .
• The 10thc teenaged English princess who defied a bishop over fashion.
• Ten vintage canes with amazing hidden features.
• Every picture tells a story - or does it? Examining two photos of romanticized train stations .
• A day in the life of a 19thc East India Company Directo r.
• The longest - and the shortest - reigns of the Middle Ages.
• Abraham Lincoln and the "sublime heroism" of British cotton workers .
• Old London landmarks: Fendall's Coffee House and Family Hotel .
• The story continues - much more about the Dido Elizabeth Belle portrait.
• The continuing power of literary relics: Shelley's ashes and Byron's hair.
• Rediscovering a missing evening dress worn by Queen Alexandra .
• Just for fun: the peekaboo cockatiel .
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.