This site includes some pre-Victorian nineteenth century material

General sites

• BBC History Trails. Victorian Britain

• British Assiciation for Victorian Studies

• British Library: The Victorians

• 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

• 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

• Mostly-Victorian.com: articles and illustrations from Victorian books and magazimes

• 19th Century British Pamphlets Online

  Prince Albert: his life and legacy

• Queen Victoria's Journals

• Spartacus Educational: has useful Victoria Resources

• 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 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.

• Victorians.co.uk

• The Virtual Victorian: Essie Fox's facts, fancies and fabrications

Victorian Architecture

• Crystal Palace

• High Victorian Gothic

• Pugin Society

• 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

• The Pre-Raphaelite Critic [unavailable at last check]

• 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 History. Victorians

• Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era: from the New York Public Library

• Bruce Rosen's Victorian History Blog

• Chartist Movement: from the Spartacus Enclyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950

• Members f Parliament 1820-1880 : from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950

• The Peterloo Massacre: from the Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History 1500-1950

• Tolpuddle Martyres

• 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

enry Dixon's London: : 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

Street Life in London, by John Thomson

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

Lion Salt works

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

 

Victorian Powys: for schools

Victorian Wolverhampton

Victorian Census Project

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

• Norton Anthology of English Literature Norton Topics Online. The Victorian Age

• The Pre-Raphaelite Critic

• Queen Victoria's Journals

• Victorian Prose Archive: Victorian Texts of Scholarly Interest [unavailable at last check]

• Victorian Women Writers Project: Indiana University

• The Voice of the Shuttle: links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet

Victorian Religion

• 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

• 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

• Corsets and Crinoline; from the Victoria and Albert Museum's Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories collection

• Enquire Within aboiut Everything: the great Victorian era domestic standby

• Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders

• 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

• Marriage History: Nineteenth Century: from About.com

• Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

• The Newgate Calendar: criminal cases up to 1842

• 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 Crime and Punishment

• Victorian Rational Dress Reform: by Pauline Weston Thomas : for Fashion Era

• Victorian Fashion

• The Victorian Turkish Bath

• Women's Suffrage

• 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

• 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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Updated 10/10/2019

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