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Detail-rich site that provides insight into the production and publishing of books in Britain during the nineteenth century.

Categories include: Factory Reformers, Supporters of Child Labour, Life in the Factory, The Factory Workers, Tactics and Issues, and The Factory Acts

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.

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.

Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.

Text from selected issues of The Penny Magazine, which was published every Saturday for a working class readership

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.

An online museum of Victorian-era British military photographs from the far corners of the empire.

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.

Thirty-five biographies of women who played a prominent role in the struggle for equality. Includes written primary sources produced by, or about, them.

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.

Resources for school projects on the Victorian era. Music, images of the Queen, the phonograph, Florence Nightingale and Education.

Provides research resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain.

Aims to computerise a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dedicated to Victorian enthusiasts: a brief history and photos of the Victorian Era including Queen Victoria, Cameos and Victorian Architecture

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.

Take a virtual tour of an imaginery Victorian era home, and learn all about lifestyles of the era, customs and interests. (Factual information set within a fictional tour. Includes many pictures)

Victorian artefacts, objects, news, photographs, presented in an innovative way for schools, parents and those interested in the Victorian era.