This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Strange Company Riding Club!
What the hell was the Sword in the Stone?
Watch out for those second-hand mourning clothes!
The byways of Old London.
The life of Matilda of Flanders, aka "Mrs. William the Conqueror."
Jane Austen was not a fan of dentists.
That time Britain came out in droves to see a decomposed whale. And keep your Royal Family jokes to yourself.
The life of the "Dandy King."
The NASA scientist who believes we've already found life on Mars.
Why Jim Buchanan begged to be hanged. Fast.
In search of Chateaubriand. The person, not the cut of meat.
Wager of law and the Elizabethan Star Chamber.
Scotland's "Falkirk Triangle."
This really might be more than you ever wanted to know about George Washington.
Thomas Edison's spirit phone.
The memoirs of the first English ambassador to India.
The Preston Poisoner.
Yes, they're still looking for Amelia Earhart.
Why we don't have the 1890 census.
The night Britain's Parliament burned down.
A look at pre-Peninsular War Spain.
An unsolved occult murder.
A brief history of dance halls.
A brief history of gnomes.
A brief history of menopause.
The execution of a Conventioner.
The first plays, and other theatrical links.
A 3,000 year old toolkit.
A barber is taken to court.
The hitchhiker killer of Santa Rosa.
The maps of Alexander von Humboldt.
The collapse of the Knickerbocker Theater.
The famed tragedian Edmund Keen.
A ghost in the archives.
Melanie had a little lamb...
The actor who was too sexy.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at pig warfare. In the meantime, here's another autumn musical interlude:
Those 'byways of old London' are so interesting. I love the idea that cities were once unique to their countries, or even districts, and not just copies of each other.
ReplyDeleteAnd I've read about Thomas Roe before. What an adventure that must have been; what a world into which he stepped.