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BBC - History
"On this site you'll find in-depth articles, multimedia (like games, virtual tours and animations) as well as bite-size material like timelines and short biographies of historic figures. All is designed for you to get more out of your interest in History...The site is divided into a broad range of topics from Ancient History to Wars and Conflict. Within each topic you'll find sub-topics devoted to key areas such as Ancient Egypt or World War One. Much of the content is about British History, though we're now expanding into other areas."

• History Trail
  "Articles, games, activities and quizzes that help you make sense of the past and the sources that made history. Pick a trail and start your journey."
  Sections include: Church and State ; Victorian Britain ; Family History ; Local History : Wars and Conflict ; Conquest ; How To Do History ; Archaeology.

Casebook: Jack the Ripper
Sections include: Victims ; Suspects ; Witness ; Ripper Letters ; Police Officials ; Press Reports ; Victorian London ; Message Boards ; Authors ; Dissertations ; Timeline.
Edited by Stephen P. Ryder

Coal Mining History Resource Centre
This UK focused site includes: Mining Prints ; Texts ; Books on Mining History ; Catalogue of Abandoned Mines 1928 ; Glossary of Mining Terms ; Database of Mining Deaths in Great Britain ; Poetry Corner ; Children in the Mines ; Lists of UK Mines, 1880, 1945.
By Ian Winstanley

English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
Originally published in 1854 by Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
From the Victorian Women Writers Project Library

FamilySearch - Census Records
"You can choose the 1880 United States, 1881 British Isles, or the 1881 Canadian Census."
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Free Historic Maps
"Around 85,000 images are available for viewing using a standard Internet browser...The maps are dated between 1846 and 1899."
From Landmark Information Group

History in Focus: The Victorian Era
Spring 2001 issue.
Sections include: Men and Women ; Ireland ; Asylums ; Law and Order ; Politics ; Great Exhibition ; Diaries ; Ancestors ; Books ; Events ; Web Sites ; Reviews ; Research.

History of the Workhouse
A well organized and extensive collection of resources.
By Peter Higginbotham

Internet Library of Early Journals
"...is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18^th and 19^th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. 18th-century journals: Gentleman's Magazine ; The Annual Register ; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries ; The Builder ; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Letters from a Victorian Governes/Companion to Royal families written during the period 1883-1894 from India/Prussia/Greece

Litir Database on Victorian Studies
"An indispensable source of current information on every important publication from 1970 to 1997 on every field of nineteenth-century British studies."

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

• The Subjection of Women
  From Modern History Sourcebook

Nineteenth Century Children's Literature
A bibliographic database of the the British Library's Children's Collection. The collection holds 2,369 titles on 5,527 fiches.
Edited by J. Barr

Religion and Society
"Entries for all the major churches and religious organisations in the 19th century. Sections on: Religious Leaders, Unitarians and Parliamentary Reform, the Evangelical Movement, Quakers and Social Reform, the Christian Socialists, Religion and Politics."
From The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia, British History 1700-1920

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

• Exhibitions
  • The Romance of Orchid Discovery: John Day Scrapbooks
    "A man with a passion, John Day painted hundreds of exquisite watercolours of the newly discovered orchids that were entrancing Victorian society. These flowers, ranging from the elegant to the curious, were given added appeal by tales of exotic lands, eventful plant hunting missions and resourceful collectors."

Tower Hamlets History On Line
"...you will find articles on the history of Bethnal Green, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, the Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, Poplar, Ratcliff, St. George's in the East, Shadwell, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wapping, Whitechapel - or any of the other hamlets that make up the London Borough of Tower Hamlets."

Victoria Research Web

Victorian Dictionary
A Guide to the Social History of Victorian London
By Lee Jackson

Victorian Times Project
"Victorian Times is a NOF-Funded Digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901)."

Victorian Web
"...is the WWW translation of Brown University's Context 61, which serves as a resource for courses in Victorian literature."
An extensive collection of resources for aspects of Victorianism

Victoriana Online
The Library includes "Hundreds of pages of transcribed original Victorian-era reference material, including sections from Cassell's Household Guide, Victorian etiquette books, scientific and social articles, magazines and more."

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