Victorian Links
On this page you will find links to a wide range of other websites relating to life in Victorian Britain. Please note that these are external resources, and Victorian Times is not responsible for their content.
Title: 19th century British art
Description: Much of the site dedicated to illustrators and schools of art
Creator: Bob Speel
Subject: Illustrators
Title: A Victorian Christmas
Description: Links to commercial sites and to Victorian periodicals and books
Subject: Christmas
Title: A Victorian Christmas
Description: Colourful site on Christmas traditions
Subject: Christmas
Title: A Victorian Christmas
Description: Christmas postcards
Subject: Christmas
Title: A Victorian Christmas
Description: Carols
Subject: Carols
Title: A Victorian market place
Description: Teaching package
Creator: Oxfordshire County Council
Subject: Marketplaces
Title: A Victorian soccer story
Description: Fiction, but based on the facts of Victorian society
Creator: Staffordshire University
Subject: Leisure, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: A Victorian timeline
Description: Tabular list of significant dates in the following categories:- technology and science, arts and literature, military, events
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: A Victorian timeline
Description: Significant dates in the world, in Britain and in Powys (Wales)
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: A discordant view
Description: The cotton industry in Lancashire
Subject: Cotton manufacture, Riots, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: A lively look at the history of death
Description: Architecture and rituals of 19th century mourning
Subject: Mourning customs, Architecture, Victorian
Title: Ancestral Past
Description: A collection of Victorian and Edwardian photographs, with few or no clues to the identities of those featured. The site aims to restore the original photographs to the descendants of the subjects.
Title: Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 - questions and controversy
Description: Images and information from the Anglo - Boer War study of Australia
Subject: South African War, 1899-1902
Title: Aspects of the Victorian book - illustration
Description: Informative site on the history of illustration
Creator: Helen Peden
Subject: Illustrators
Title: Biography of Queen Victoria
Description: Presents a biography of Queen Victoria written by James Parton in 1868.
Creator: James Parton
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Care and feeding of infants and children in Dickens' London
Description: Article and bibliography
Creator: Cathleen L. Edgar
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century, Children
Title: Charles Booth Online Archive
Description: Searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science) and the University of London Library.
Creator: London School of Economics and Political Science
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Charles Dicken's page
Description: Lots of information about this popular author
Creator: David Perdue
Subject: Authors
Title: Children in Victorian Britain
Description: How children lived in the reign of Victoria. Designed for age group, 9 - 11 years of age
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Children in the Victorian Age
Description: Basic site with accompanying dictionary
Subject: Children, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Children in the Victorian Age
Description: Brief information with accompanying dictionary terms
Subject: Children
Title: Children's literature - chiefly from the 19th century
Description: Teaching collection at Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina
Creator: Patrick Scott, Jason A. Pierce
Subject: Children's literature
Title: Christmas in the British Isles
Description: Christmas traditions.
Subject: Christmas
Title: Collect Britain
Description: Includes annotated images of various aspects of Victorian Britain
Creator: British Library
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Crimean texts
Description: Documents pertaining to the Crimean War
Creator: David Kelsey
Subject: Crimean War, 1853 -1856
Title: Cultural and social history of the victorian age
Creator: Mitsuharu Matsuoka
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Curious Castle classroom
Description: Biographies of Victorian authors
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: Emancipation of women
Description: Biographies of women from all walks of life who were interested in better conditions for their sex.
Creator: John Simkin
Subject: Women -- Suffrage
Title: Epidemics in the United States
Description: Although the subject of epidemics is touched upon, the gist of this site is concerned with funerals and mourning etiquette in Victorian times in America. There is an artical on funerals etc, reproduced from "Harper's Bazar" April 17th, 1886. There are links to other sites on the subject.
Creator: Margie Daniels
Subject: Mourning customs
Title: Frances Brundage
Description: Known for designing postcards. However, this talented lady illustrated books by, among others, Louisa M. Alcott, Daniel Defoe, John Ruskin, Johanna Spyri and Robert Louis Stevenson
Creator: Denise Ortakales
Subject: Children's literature, Illustrators, Postcards
Title: Gender and history
Description: Articles and images on women's issues
Subject: Sex discrimination, Women legal status, laws etc
Title: Gladstone Pottery Museum
Description: Information sheet on health risks in a Victorian pottery factory
Creator: City of Stoke - on - Trent
Subject: Hazardous occupations, Factories
Title: Great Britain Victorian Stamps
Description: Lots of information - a great site for philatelists
Creator: Ross Taylor
Subject: Stamp collecting
Title: Great Expectations and Victorian England
Description: Links to information about Charles Dickens. Other links to the Victorian era
Creator: V. Kulkarni
Subject: Authors, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: GridClub:time tunnel - Victorian parlour
Description: Cartoon - like interactive site for younger primary school children
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Health and hygiene in the 19th century
Description: Excerpt from "The healthy body and Victorian culture" by Bruce Haley
Creator: Laurelyn Douglas
Subject: Health, Hygiene
Title: History of Darwinism
Description: Various articles about Charles Darwin
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Scientists
Title: History of Darwinism
Description: Article on evolutionism
Creator: Peter J. Bowler
Subject: Scientists
Title: History of the Monarchy - The Hanoverians - Queen Victoria
Description: Biography of Queen Victoria from the official website of the British Monarchy.
Creator: Royal Household
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: History trail
Description: Games, articles and quizzes in Victorian Britain - mainly for primary school children
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Ideals of womanhood in Victorian Britain
Description: The realities of life varied greatly, depending on the social class
Creator: Dr Lynn Abrams
Subject: Social role, Women legal status, laws etc
Title: Images of London
Description: Commercial site with photographs and watercolours of London
Creator: London Northwest.com Ltd
Subject: Historic sites
Title: Images of Victorian authors
Description: Images and information about 5 authors
Creator: Peter Logan
Subject: Authors
Title: Jack the Ripper - anonymous murderer
Description: Article on this famous individual with a list of suspects. There is a "Cluedo" type of game for you to play to determine the alter -ego of Jack!
Subject: Crime, Murderers
Title: Kate Greenaway
Description: An appealing site on this renowned book illustrator/author. Kate's name still lives on in the form of a medal named for her. The Kate Greenaway Medal was established by The Library Association in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular nineteenth century artist known for her fine children's illustrations and designs. It was first awarded to Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone. The medal is now awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, which is a new organisation formed by the unification of the Institute of Information Scientists and The Library Association on 1 April 2002. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice. Since 2000, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal has also been awarded the £5000 Colin Mears Award. Colin Mears, a Worthing based accountant and children's book collector, left a bequest to The Library Association providing every Greenaway winner with a cash award as well as the coveted Medal.
Subject: Illustrators
Title: Lady Geraldine's courtship: women in the Victorian Age
Description: Article on married women
Subject: Women legal status, laws etc
Title: Life for children in Victorian Britain
Description: Childhood in the Victorian era. Comparisons between modern and Victorian schooling
Subject: Children
Title: Life in the Victorian Age
Description: All aspects of Victoria's reign - images, articles, links
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Links related to Victorian Britain
Description: Websites with information about the Victorians
Creator: Morag Watson
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Literary periods: Romantic and Victorian
Description: Websites
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: Lithography in the Victorian Age
Description: Examples of this printing process
Subject: Lithography
Title: Mesmerism and the introduction of surgical anesthesia to Victorian England
Description: Article on the demise of hypnotism as an anesthetic technique
Creator: Alison Winter
Subject: Anesthetics, Medicine, Hypnotism
Title: Monuments and dust: the culture of Victorian London
Description: Scholarly work with many illustrations
Creator: Michael Levenson, David Trotter, Anthony Wohl
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Motions and means:mapping opposition to railways in Victorian Britain
Description: Co-relation between railways and movement of the population
Creator: Leigh Denault, Jennifer Landis
Subject: Railways -- Great Britain
Title: Mourning in the nineteenth century: an overview
Description: Article on mourning etiquette
Creator: Virginia Mescher
Subject: Mourning etiquette
Title: Pathways to the past
Description: Biographies of certain types of people, for example - soldier, typist, refugee, actress. Examples of Public Record Office for this period given
Creator: Public Record Office
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured
Description: Dedicated to the history and art of toy theatres.
Creator: Trish Lewis
Title: Picturing childhood - the evolution of the illustrated children's book
Description: Text, interesting images, links
Creator: Cynthia Burlingham
Subject: Children's literature, Illustrators
Title: Primary education - Victorian links for children
Description: List of websites suitable for project work
Creator: Crewe Institute of Education
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Queen Victoria's Empire
Description: Educational resources
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Quilt history
Description: An article on Victorian mourning customs taken from Collier's Cyclopedia, published in 1901.
Creator: Colliers Cyclopedia
Subject: Mourning customs
Title: Resources in Victorian studies
Description: Content of the E.J.Pratt Library
Creator: Victoria University - University of Toronto
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Sherlockian.Net: England and the Victorian Era
Description: Various sources of information about Victoria's reign. Includes commercial sites which have nothing to do with the Victorians
Creator: Chris Redmond
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Description: Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Title: Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Description: Article on this famous astronomer and scientist
Subject: Scientists
Title: Social trends and fashions: Victorian England
Creator: Christopher Wagner
Subject: Children, Clothing and dress, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: The Jewish Victorian genealogical information
Description: Births, marriages and deaths from Jewish newspapers 1871 -1880
Creator: Doreen Berger
Subject: Jewish families
Title: The Napoleon of crime
Description: Review of a book on a master criminal by the name of Adam Worth. Conan Doyle used him as the model for his literary character, Professor Moriarity
Subject: Crime
Title: The Victorian Age: web resources
Description: Links and resources, including 19th century America
Creator: Mount Miguel Library
Subject: Americans, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorian Age: web resources
Description: Links and articles on the Victorian era in America
Creator: Albany Institute of History and Art
Subject: Americans, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorian information society
Description: Public librarianship in 19th century Britain
Creator: Alistair Black, Leeds Metropolitan University
Subject: Bureaucracy, Library science
Title: The Victorian literature website
Description: Links, biographies, quotes
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: The Victorian period.
Description: Daily life in Victorian England.
Creator: Britain Express
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: The Victorian web
Description: Articles on all aspects of Victoria's reign. Contains a useful network of myriad links
Creator: George P. Landow
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorians
Description: Aids to project work
Creator: Snaith Primary School
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorians
Description: Websites for primary school projects. A very interesting one - has photographs and paintings of Victoria and her family
Creator: Highland Council - Education, Culture and Sport Service
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorians homework resources
Description: Help with homework about the Victorians. Aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils
Creator: Woodlands Junior School
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorians uncovered
Description: Bibliography and websites on the Victorians
Creator: Patricia Feinberg
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Victorians web guide
Description: Resources for children and teachers
Creator: North Ayrshire Council
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The Women's Library
Description: Guide to the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK
Creator: London Metropolitan University
Subject: Women legal status, laws etc, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: The Workhouse
Description: Dedicated to the workhouse - its buildings, inmates, staff and administrators, and even its poets.
Creator: Peter Higginbotham
Subject: Workhouses -- Great Britain
Title: The black Victorians
Description: Images of black people in Britain
Creator: Mckenzie Heritage Picture Archive
Subject: Blacks History
Title: The complications of Victorian religion
Description: Article on religion as a means of control
Creator: Don Dickson
Subject: Belief and doubt, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: The early seaside
Description: The Victorians at play
Creator: Pauline Weston Thomas
Subject: Leisure
Title: The fallen woman in fiction and legislation
Description: This work investigates the subject of prostitution in fact and fiction. Topics covered include the "double standard" and legislation such as the Contagious Diseases Act.
Creator: Megara Bell
Subject: Women legal status, laws etc
Title: The mourning after....
Description: Mourning etiquette more stringent for women than men
Subject: Mourning customs
Title: The old operating theatre museum and herb garret
Description: Surgical procedures in some London hospitals. This site includes an interactive virtual tour
Creator: Kevin Flude
Subject: Hospitals, Surgery
Title: The story of Victorian medicine
Description: Victorian era saw an incredible advance in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases
Creator: Deborah Birkett
Subject: Medicine
Title: Three good Scottish hangings
Description: Brief biographies of three men who had been hanged, including the infamous Burke
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Crime
Title: Topics - Victorians
Description: Links to wesites about the Victorians
Creator: East Dunbartonshire Council
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: True worth of Victorian values
Description: Life in Bolton
Creator: Simon Topliss
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Turning new ideas into useful things
Description: Article on invention and technology
Creator: Professor David Newland
Subject: Inventions, Technology, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Urbanization, internal migration and occupational mobility in Victorian Britain
Description: Article on population shifts
Creator: Jason Long
Subject: Population Statistics
Title: Victoria research web
Description: Scholarly resources for Victorian research
Creator: Patrick Leary
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Victorian Age
Description: Search by timeline, age group, topic and links
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Age
Description: Information on videos about Victorian literature
Creator: Guidance Associates
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: Victorian Age
Description: Information which can be searched by topic, timeline, age groups and links
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Age - links
Description: Resources and links including some for America
Subject: Americans
Title: Victorian Age - overview
Description: Resources for students
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Age; web resources
Description: Links for the Victorian era in America
Creator: Albany Institute of History and Art
Subject: Americans, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Britain
Description: Public Record Office materials
Creator: Malcolm Chandler
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Britain
Description: Site for use by children and teachers. Requires user id and password
Creator: London Grid for Learning
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Britain
Description: Images and descriptions of Victorian life in the local area. Much of the information has been written by the pupils
Creator: Wensleydale Middle School
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Britain
Description: Information on sources for project work on Barrow - in - Furness
Creator: The Dock Museum - Barrow -in - Furness
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Victorian Britain - a lawless nation?
Description: Data, timeline and activities on the subject of crime
Subject: Crime
Title: Victorian Britain - an overview
Description: Lives of men, women and children based on the 1891census for a particular street in London
Creator: , The IT Learning Exchange
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century, Census
Title: Victorian Britain: important dates
Description: Famous events of Queen Victoria's reign
Creator: , Quality Teaching Resources
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian Christmas
Description: Colourful site on traditions and Christmas linked subjects
Subject: Christmas
Title: Victorian Christmas dinner
Description: Menu for a Victorian Christmas dinner from Godey's Lady's Book, December 1890
Subject: Christmas, Menus, Recipes
Title: Victorian Era
Description: Victorian fashions
Subject: Clothing and dress
Title: Victorian Glasgow
Description: Social conditions and examples of architecture
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Architecture, Scottish, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Victorian London
Description: Short article on London
Creator: Professor Gerhard Rempel
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian London in depth
Description: Subjects include gentlemen's clubs, fashion and the police
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Victorian Manchester - life in the 19th century
Description: Social conditions
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Victorian architecture
Description: Varying kinds of buildings - house, factories, farm buildings
Creator: Jean Manco
Subject: Architecture, Victorian
Title: Victorian art
Description: Links to individual artists
Subject: Art, Victorian
Title: Victorian authors
Description: Crossword
Subject: Authors
Title: Victorian cemeteries
Description: London graveyards running out of space
Creator: Kim Chevalier
Subject: Death
Title: Victorian census project
Description: 19th century statistics, including the census
Creator: Staffordshire University
Subject: Census, Statistics
Title: Victorian children
Description: Interactive site on the varying lifestyles of Victorian children
Creator: Jan Hamilton
Subject: Children, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century, Schools
Title: Victorian children
Description: Interactive sight on the lifestyles of Victorian children
Creator: Jan Hamilton
Subject: Schools, Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century, Children
Title: Victorian children
Description: Interactive site on lifestyle of Victorian children
Creator: Jan Hamilton
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century, Children
Title: Victorian inventions
Description: Brief information. Links to other historical pages in general and more on Victorian history,in particular
Creator: Wilberforce St. John Cruickshank
Subject: Inventions
Title: Victorian jet works
Description: Use of jet in Victorian society
Creator: Alec MacKenzie, Hal Redvers - Jones
Subject: Jet (Precious stone)
Title: Victorian literature
Description: Links to websites
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: Victorian literature research guide
Description: Internet resources including books and websites
Creator: Carol Maksian, Assumption College
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: Victorian Medical Practices
Description: Very useful site with links to a variety of aspects of medicine
Subject: Medicine
Title: Victorian medicine - from fluke to theory
Description: Measures taken to lower deaths by, for example, cholera and tuberculosis.
Creator: Bruce Robinson
Subject: Medicine, preventitive - Law and legislation
Title: Victorian medicine resources
Description: Photographs and documents on significant medical events
Creator: Henry Hattemer
Subject: Medicine
Title: Victorian motherhood
Description: Short article with bibliography
Creator: Kimmy Milne
Subject: Motherhood
Title: Victorian mourning customs
Description: Stages of mourning
Creator: Anne Douglas
Subject: Mourning customs
Title: Victorian poetry (1837 - 1901)
Description: Study questions
Creator: Professor Florence Boos
Subject: Poetry, Modern 19th century
Title: Victorian station
Description: The reign of Queen Victoria
Subject: Railway stations -- England
Title: Victorian studies
Description: Websites for research on the Victorians
Creator: University of Wales, Lampeter
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian values at 100
Description: Short article on the 100th anniversary of Queen Victoria's death
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian web sites
Description: Basically, a list of resources
Creator: Mitsuharu Matsuoka
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorian websites
Description: Includes images of Victorian authors with accompaning biographical details
Creator: Peter Logan
Subject: English literature 19th century
Title: Victorian women's rights
Description: Includes an interactive quiz
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Women legal status, laws etc
Title: Victorian-paintings.com
Description: Victorian art gallery
Creator: David Wettreich
Subject: Art, Victorian
Title: VictorianLinks.com
Description: Links to websites on the Victorian era. Also gives details of firms dealing in Victoriana
Creator: Miss Mary
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victoriana links
Description: An American site about Americans in the Victorian era
Creator: Washington Junior High School
Subject: Americans, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Victorians
Description: Artefacts and teaching resources highlighting Victorian life in Enfield.
Creator: Enfield Council Museum
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Victorians - primary project
Description: Information and ideas for children to help them carry out a project on Victorians
Creator: Learning Connections
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Virtual Victorians
Description: Entertaining, informative and educational interactive site for schools
Creator: Tiverton Museum, The Telematics Centre, University of Exeter
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Virtual library of useful URLs
Description: Websites which include Victorian Britain - arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. A research guide for students
Creator: I. Lee
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Welcome to my home
Description: "Tour" of a middle - class Victorian home
Creator: B. Malheiro
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Title: Were men and women equal in Victorian Britain?
Description: Interactive site on the subject of women's status
Subject: Women legal status, laws etc
Title: What the Victorians did for us
Description: The impact of the Victorians on science and society
Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation
Subject: Great Britain -- Social Conditions -- 19th Century
Title: Why did women not have the vote in 1831?
Description: Aimed at pupils aged 7 - 9 years of age
Creator: Department for Education and Skills
Subject: Women -- Suffrage, Women legal status, laws etc
Title: William Morris - art and idealism
Description: Article from "History Today"
Creator: Charles Harvey, Jon Press
Subject: Art, Victorian
Title: Women murderers in Victorian Britain
Description: Article from "History Today"
Creator: Judith Knelman
Subject: Crime, Murderers
Title: Women's studies
Description: Microform collections on life for Victorian women. List does go beyond this period
Creator: University of British Columbia
Subject: English literature 19th century, Feminism, Women legal status, laws etc
