Reference & Research Collection Links

General

The Victorian Web: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/

History in Focus: The Victorian Era (Introduction)
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/index.html

Channel 4 - History - 1800-1900
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/browse/1800-1900.html

Museum of the History of Science
University of Oxford
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/

Victorian Photographs by Year_from the collections of Roger Vaughan
http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/dec/dated.htm

The City
19 Century City
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~city19c/viccity/home.html

London, city of cities
[use these to mount an exhibit on London?]
London's Past Online - a bibliography of London history
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/london.asp

Dictionary of Victorian London - Victorian History - 19th Century London - Social History
http://www.victorianlondon.org/

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london//Archive/index.html

Crystal Palace Online Publications
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london//Archive/On-line-pubs/publications.html

Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Victorian London
http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/

Maps

Map of John Snow's London in 1859
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html

Nineteenth-Century London
http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/19thclondon.html

Literature

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21

Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival.
http://www.bartleby.com/222/index.html

Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One.
http://www.bartleby.com/223/index.html

Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two.
http://www.bartleby.com/224/index.html

Jane Austen: Overview
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/austen/index.html#web

Dress & Fashion (courtesy of Ms. Abbey Underall of Caledon)

Historical Pattern Company
http://www.pastpatterns.com/

Antique Fashion
http://www.antique-fashion.com/

Bustles
http://www.costumes.org/classes/fashiondress/BustlePeriods.htm

Images of Victorian fashion
http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/victorian/

Link collections

Very useful Victorian sites
http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/victorian.html

Nineteenth Century Websites
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/websites.html