I find so many interesting links, I decided to reboot my one-time round-up (and am taking a page from the Two Nerdy History Girls’ Breakfast Links)!
- The Royal Society of Chemistry revives a cheap working man’s lunch devised by Mrs. Beeton, the Toast sandwich.
- The blog run by the Museum of the City of New York reaches into their archive of Byron Company photographs to discuss Fitness Crazes of Yesteryear.
- New York Social Diary tackles the fascinating and capricious life of Mamie Fish, one of Gilded Age New York society’s famous hostesses.
- M-Bike, the blog devoted to promoting “safe and convenient bicycling in Metro Detroit” takes us back to 1895, where women were given a bizarre list of cycling don’ts.
- Queen Elizabeth II is throwing open Windsor Castle for visitors to ooh and ahh over the recreation of a Victorian Christmas.
- The Montreal Gazette uncovers the neglected story of the city’s own “Coney Island.”
- Thanks to a journalism professor, the “vanished history of black people in Boston is visible again to anybody with a smartphone“.
- Bringing us back to Mrs. Beeton, British Food History blog talks about her recipe for traditional mincemeat and compares it with one from the sixteenth century.
- Visitors and villagers alike will want to take part in The Great Pudding Stir in Wimborne, East Dorset.
- Hopefully this traveling WWI exhibit, currently in the Houston, TX area, will reach your neck of the woods.
- Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha, which focuses on the Reconstruction era, Gets New Recording by Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
- An exciting 1911-themed birthday party for a one-hundred year old woman!
- The Wall Street Journal looks at the opulent Vanderbilt castle, Biltmore.
Love the new look!
Thanks! I was feeling a bit antsy, and decided to spruce it up a bit.
I’m visiting from your fabulous YouTube channel and I’m looking forward to nosing around your archive a bit! Thanks for the great links. Hope you’re having a great weekend.
Thank you for visiting Lauren! I appreciate it. Have fun poking around the website. 😉
Holy cow, that list for bicycling is downright discouraging. It reads like a pet peeve list. But I love the first item: “Don’t be a fright.”
What in the world does that even mean?
Great list of links, though. Thanks!
I know right? It was basically just one long diatribe against why women shouldn’t be allowed to ride bicycles. We have come a long way, lol.
Beautiful and interesting blog! Keep it up.
Thank you Rosa!