Some great links to get you through the weekend coffees…

• Marla Day travels around the USA collecting and archiving textile objects from African-American history.
• Watch the parade of clothes in this awesome silent movie from Edwardian London in 1912/3.
• The latest edition of Irish Archaeological Research is out – read it now!
• As is the list of events for the Dublin Lectures 2012 in the Little Museum of Dublin – see here.
• I just discovered this truly fabulous blog – Amazing Women in History – you won’t be able to put this one down.
• Check out the pageboy outfits in this run down of Edwardian fashion in Dublin a century ago!
• The National Library of Ireland is looking for anything you may have from WW1 – read more here.
• Visit the temporary (quick! go!) exhibition of 21st Century Irish Craft at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin; see more here.
• And finally! This day 100 years ago was the Lawrence Textile Strike. Read all about it here.