This site includes some pre-Victorian nineteenth century material

General sites

• BBC History Trails. Victorian Britain
• British Association for Victorian Studies
• 1876 Victorian England Revisited
• Historical Directories: a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919
• Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website: online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937 [unavailable at last check]
• Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals: an eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) Project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
• Learning Curve. Victorian Britain
• Nineteenth Century American Culture: Kingwood College Library
• Mostly-Victorian.com: articles and illustrations from Victorian books and magazimes
• 19th Century British Pamphlets Online
• Queen Victoria's Journals
• Victoria and Albert Museum: 19th century resources
• Victorian and Edwardian Photographs: the Roger Vaughan Picture Library
• Victorian Photographs: Written, owned & maintained by Jennifer Carnell
• Victoria Research Web: Indiana University
• Victorian Database Online
• Victorian Era: Victorian Britain in Pictures: a commercial site with links to external Victorian sites and resources
• The Victorian Period in England: from Britain Express
• Victorian Studies on the Web
• Victorian Times: a NOF funded digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901).
• Victorian Web
• The Victoriana Library: based on a commercial site, but has links to a collection of articles, archives and resources for the 19th Century enthusiast.
• The Virtual Victorian: Essie Fox's facts, fancies and fabrications

Victorian Architecture

• Crystal Palace
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852
• High Victorian Gothic
• Pugin Society
• Victorian Architecture: from Great Buildings Online
• Victorian Architecture: from the Victorian Web
• Victorian Society: campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian architecture
• Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports, by John W. Reps

Victorian Art

• Arts & Crafts Movement: 1880-1920 in Europe and America  
• The Pre-Raphaelite Critic
• Rossetti Archive: The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Victorian Art and Artists: Bob Speel
• Victorian Britain: Early photographically illustrated books: in the British Library
• The William Morris Gallery
• The William Morris Society Website

Victorian History

• BBC Victorian History
• Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era: from the New York Public Library
• British History from 1800: from BUBL [unfortunately no longer updated]
• Broadside: life in Royal Navy in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century
• Bruce Rosen's Victorian History Blog
• Chartist Movement: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950
• Members of Parliament 1750-1820 : from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950
• The Peterloo Massacre: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950
• Tolpuddle Martyrs
• Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum
• The Victorians: Victorian history and the resources available to study it: from History in Focus
• Views of the Famine: the Irish Potato famine : primary sources and  contemporary images

Victorian Local History

Victorian London

Fassett Square E8

Greenwood's Map of London 1827

Henry Dixon's London: from Collage: hosted by The City of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery

John Thomson's Street Life in London

Mayhew, Henry. London Labour  and London Poor, vol 1:  from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London

Victorian Dictionary ... a guide to the social history of London

Victorian London Cemeteries

Victorian Cheshire

Anderton Boat Lift

E-mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire's tithe maps online

Kelsall 19th Century Social History

Lion Salt works

Social History of Cheshire: In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by Craig Thornber

 

Victorian Manchester

Victorian Powys: for schools

Victorian Wolverhampton

Victorian Census Project: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Staffordshire University

Victorian Literature

• Aspects of the Victorian Book: British Library
• British Women Romantic Poets: 1789-1832: An electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature: vol. 14: The Victorian Age
• Crime, Gender and Victorian Popular Culture: appears to be discontinued although Chris Willis's pages may still be reached via the Internet Archive WaybackMachine
• Nineteenth Century British and Irish Authors: from Victorian Web
• Domestic Goddesses, a.k.a. Scribbling Women
• Individual Authors
• Godey's Lady's Book: by Hope Greenberg:  University of Vermont: samples from a popular 19th century American women's magazine
• Godey's Lady's Book: January, February, March, April and November, 1850 issues
• The Keepsake for 1829
• Edward Lear Nonsense Books
• Literary Resources - Victorian-British:  maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers — Newark
• Nineteenth Century American Children and What they Read
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Periodicals
• Nineteenth Century Literature: Academic and critical articles on 19thcentury authors, open access research
• The Pre-Raphaelite Critic
• Queen Victoria's Journals
• Victorian Prose Archive: Victorian Texts of Scholarly Interest
• Victorian Women Writers Project: Indiana University
• The Voice of the Shuttle: links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet
• Wonderland: texts of classics at the Online Literature Library

Victorian Religion

• Religion: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950: includes information about religious leaders and movements of the Victorian period.
• Victorian Religion:  from the Victorian Web
• Charles Booth Online Archive

Victorian Science, Medicine and Technology

• The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress
• George Burgess (1829-1905): a Victorian perspective: includes works on phrenology, his scrapbook and thoughts on religion
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
• The Complete Morris's British Birds 1891
• Darwin Correspondence Project
• The Sir Henry Dryden Collection: architectural and archaeological drawings by Sir Henry Dryden presented to the town of Northampton after his death in 1899 : from VADS: the online resource for visual arts
• Emma Darwin's Diaries
• Thomas A. Edison Papers
• Historic Hospital Admissions Records Project (HHARP): 19th Century children's hospital records
• History of Medicine and Public Health: A Miscellany Concentrating on the 18th and 19th centuries with material of interest to North West England, by Craig Thornber
• The History of Phrenology, by Dr. John van Wyhe : from the Victorian Web
• The Huxley File: created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce of Clark University [unavailable at last check]
• Industrial and Transport Museums
• The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
• Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anaesthesiology
• London's "Great Stink" and Victorian Urban Planning, by Professor Martin Daunton
• Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology. Vols. 1-3. 1830
• The Complete Morris's British Birds 1891
• Museum of Victorian Science, Glaisdale
• The Old Operating Theatre: museum and herb garret
• The railway accident: trains, trauma and technological crisis in nineteenth-century Britain by Ralph Harrington 
• Steam and Speed: Industry, Transport and Communication:
from the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Victorian Farming: new technologies
• Victorian Medicine
• Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory, by Bruce Robinson
• Victorian Railways: from Sparticus Educational
• Victorian Railways: from Britain Express: this site contains other Victorian resources
• Victorian Science: from the Victorian Web
• Victorian Technology: from the Victorian Web
• William Loney RN - Victorian naval surgeon
• Workshop of the World: invention and innovation in the West Midlands

Victorian Society

• Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition: digital collection of documents from the past several centuries, including broadsides, sheet music, and government publications: compiled by Brown University (USA)
• British Newspapers 1800-1900: searches and some articles free and other articles  available on subscription
• Charles Booth Online Archive
• Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries
• Child Labour: 1750-1900: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950
• Corsets and Crinoline; from the Victoria and Albert Museum's Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories collection
• The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950
• Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950
• Evanion Collection of Ephemera: printed ephemera related to entertainment and everyday life in Victorian England
• Gentleman's Page: A Practical Guide for the 19th Century American Man
• Hidden Lives Revealed: a virtual archive, 1881 - 1918 of cases of poor and disadvantaged children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society
• The history of costume, by Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880
• History of Modern Cremation in Great Britain from 1874: The First Hundred Years
• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information (1881)
• Human Rights: from the National Archive
• Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals: based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums: a Middlesex University resource by Andrew Roberts
• Letters from the Past
• Letters of a Victorian lady, Ada E Leslie, 1883 to 1894
• The life and loves of a Victorian clerk: The diary of Nathaniel Bryceson, 1846
• Marriage History: Nineteenth Century: from About.com
• Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
• The Newgate Calendar: criminal cases up to 1842
• The 19th Century American Trade Card
• 19th Century Schoolbooks: full text scans of 140 [American] schoolbooks from the Nietz Old Textbook Collection
• Prisons and Prisoners (UK): in Black Sheep Ancestors
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1913
• Ragged School Museum
• Regency Dance Manuals
• Soldiers of the Queen: a Virtual Museum of Antique Victorian-era British Military Photographs and Associated Biographical Research:
• Southwell Union Workhouse: documents
• Studies in Scarlet: marriage and  sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914: 420 trial narratives compiled by Harvard University Library
• Victorian Advertising: by Jennifer Carnell
• Victorian Costume
• Victorian Dress Reform
• Victorian Courtship : article from a non academic site but contains some useful links
• Victorian Fashion
• The Victorian Turkish Bath
• The Workhouse: by Peter Higginbotham

Victorian Theatre and Popular Culture

• American Choral Music, 1870-1923
• Amusing America: American amusement parks, world’s fairs, arcades, seaside resorts and dance pavilions from the 1880s to World War II
• Herrmann's Book of Magic: Black Art Fully Exposed: a complete and practical guide to drawing room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs by Prof. Herrmann, 1903
• The Library of Nineteenth Century Photography
• The Magic Lantern Society has links to the history of the Magic Lantern
• Music from 1800 to 1860: from Public Domain Music: MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb based on original sheet music sources
• Music from 1866 to 1899: from Public Domain Music: MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb based on original sheet music sources
• Parlor Songs Academy: musical reminiscences of years gone by (US)
• 19th Century Resources: from Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
• Songs of the Victorians: an archive
• Theatre History Resources at the Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury: links to 17th, 18th and 19th century resources
• Theatre Royal Edinburgh: Playbills: Edinburgh's Theatre Royal at the start of the 19th century
• Victorian Popular Music: Illustrated sheet music from the heyday of the Music Hall
• Vive la difference: The English and French stereotype in satirical prints, 1720-1815
• Volcano of Delight: Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922

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