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 Aspects of the Victorian book - http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/intro.html Detail-rich site that provides insight into the production and publishing of books in Britain during the nineteenth century. |
 Victorian Census Project - http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/vichome.htm Aims to computerise a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. |
 Victorian Station - http://www.victorianstation.com/ Dedicated to Victorian enthusiasts: a brief history and photos of the Victorian Era including Queen Victoria, Cameos and Victorian Architecture |
 Smugglers' Britain - http://www.smuggling.co.uk/ British smuggling in the 18th and 19th centuries. Directions to smugglers' pubs, coves, caves and tunnels, together with the full, indexed text of a book on smuggling. |
 Child Labour in the 19th Century - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm Categories include: Factory Reformers, Supporters of Child Labour, Life in the Factory, The Factory Workers, Tactics and Issues, and The Factory Acts |
 The Peterloo Massacre - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/peterloo.html A detailed analysis of the events of St Peter's Field, Manchester on the 16th August, 1819. Eyewitness accounts and biographical details of 25 people who saw what happened that day. |
 The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/resource.htm Thirty-five biographies of women who played a prominent role in the struggle for equality. Includes written primary sources produced by, or about, them. |
 Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals - http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm Based on a survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums. |
 The Peel Web - http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/peelhome.htm Sir Robert Peel dominated parliament throughout the period 1830-50. Marjie Bloy covers many social, political and economic issues of the period. |
 Victorian Times Project - http://victoria.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXSESSION_=&_IXFILE_=index.html&_IXACTION_=file Digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901). Sections on health, transport, education, housing, work and industry. Biographies of prominent Victorians. |
 Georgian Index - http://www.georgianindex.net/fd/ A survey of British and European culture in the early 19th century including: George IV, Princess Charlotte, The Crown Jewels of France and England, Napoleon's Carriage, the evolution of boxing, the tea table, period card games, the evolution of the thoroughbred, period fly-fishing, a growing selection of London addresses. |
 The Victorians: Resources for Schools - http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/victoria.htm Resources for school projects on the Victorian era. Music, images of the Queen, the phonograph, Florence Nightingale and Education. |
 Victoria Research Web - http://victorianresearch.org/ Provides research resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain. |
 True Tales of War, Adventure and Exploration - http://uk.geocities.com/ticketyboo13/ Stories of British adventurers and explorers. |
 The British Way: Imperialism - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kenanderson/britway Explores how the British nation acquired and governed an empire greater in size than any in history and how the Victorians adapted to the idea of imperialism. |
 Dr. William Palmer - http://www.vsupermarket.co.uk/~davelewis/williampalmer.co.uk/ Information about Dr.William Palmer, the "Rugeley Poisoner", the "Prince of Poisoners", a nineteenth century Staffordshire character, his life, his crimes, his trial and public hanging. |
 Soldiers of the Queen - http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/ An online museum of Victorian-era British military photographs from the far corners of the empire. |
 John Leech Archive - http://john-leech-archive.org.uk Archive of Punch cartoons by John Leech 1841-1860, indexed by keywords, title and year. |