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The Victorians: Resources for Schools - Resources for school projects on the Victorian era. Music, images of the Queen, the phonograph, Florence Nightingale and Education.
The Peterloo Massacre - A detailed analysis of the events of St Peter's Field, Manchester on the 16th August, 1819. The website includes eyewitness accounts and biographical details of 25 people who saw what happened that day.
The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 - Thirty-five biographies of women who played a prominent role in the struggle for equality. Includes written primary sources produced by, or about, them.
Victorian Station - Dedicated to Victorian enthusiasts: a brief history and photos of the Victorian Era including Queen Victoria, Cameos and Victorian Architecture
Victorian Census Project - Aims to computerise a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.
Aspects of the Victorian book - Detail-rich site that provides insight into the production and publishing of books in Britain during the nineteenth century.
Penny Magazine Online - Text from selected issues of The Penny Magazine, which was published every Saturday for a working class readership
Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals - Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.
Victoria Research Web - Provides research resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain.
Smugglers' Britain - 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.
Dr. William Palmer - 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.
Virtual Victorians - Victorian artefacts, objects, news, photographs, presented in an innovative way for schools, parents and those interested in the Victorian era.
Victorian Times Project - 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 - 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.
Soldiers of the Queen - An online museum of Victorian-era British military photographs from the far corners of the empire.
The Peel Web - Sir Robert Peel dominated parliament throughout the period 1830-50. Marjie Bloy covers many social, political and economic issues of the period.
John Leech Archive - Archive of Punch cartoons by John Leech 1841-1860, indexed by keywords, title and year.
The British Way: Imperialism - 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.
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