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A Virtual Tour of Victorian England
A visit to a Victorian Family where they "Will show you how a middle-class Victorian family lives."
Victorian Web
Victorian Web: Dickens "The Man Who Invented Christmas"
This interesting essay highlights ways in which Charles Dickens's "Christmas books" re-introduced Christmas traditions to Victorian England. The essay explains changes in Victorian society as well as the importance that Christmas...
BBC
Bbc: History Trails: Victorian Britain
Victorian Britain experienced dramatic economic growth but at great social cost. Read about the times, and play online learning games as well.
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Channel 4: Victorian Children
The question of "what was it like for children living in Victorian England" is answered in this website teacher resources are included.
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University of Wisconsin: Victorian England: An Introduction
One page article summarizes many important characteristics of the Victorian Age such as religion, ideology, social responsibility, imperialism, and education.
Britain Express
Britain Express: History: The Victorian Age: Chartism
A history of the Chartist Movement in England from its origins in 1838 with the "People's Charter," to its demise in 1848.
Project Britain
Project Britain: The Victorians
Discover just who the Victorians were by searching through the links provided in this guide to Victorian life. Biographies, pictures, clothing, and more are featured here.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Victorian Era
The material objects, buildings, and texts arranged in this primary source set illustrate the variety of Victorian design while revealing some of the unique cultural characteristics of the period.
Britain Express
Britain Express: Queen Victoria and Victorian England the Young Queen
This describes Victoria's achievements in the early years of her reign. It discusses reforms, the first "World's Fair", the Crimean War, and the Indian Mutiny.
BBC
Bbc History: British History: Victorians: Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers
Learn about Victoria's approach to working with the prime ministers who served during her long reign. Archived.
BBC
Bbc: Victorian Britain
An interactive, diverse site that provides the student with lots of great information about Britain during the Victorian era. Discover the Victorian way of life through narrative, pictures, and games.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
National Archives (UK)
National Archives: Victorian Britain: Industrial Nation
Mining in England early in the Industrial Revolution was very dangerous. Source 4 presents clippings from Lord Ashley's report illustrating the conditions of working in mines and factories in the early-mid nineteenth century England....
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Lewis Carroll
The Victorian Web provides extensive information on author Lewis Carroll. A biography, bibliography with online text to some of his works, analysis of his writings, and much more. Links are also provided for additional information.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Religion in Victorian Britain
The links provided show the different aspects of religion in 18th and 19th century England. The site also offers a timeline of religion and philosophy.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
This site from the Victorian Web provides a summary of Edwin Chadwick's report on the sanitary conditions of the working class in 19th century England. Links are also provided for additional information on this subject.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
This Gothic-Romantic novel, set in Victorian England, chronicles the life of Jane Eyre: a plain governess who falls in love with her employer and discovers a terrible secret within Thornfield. Selected (11) reading passages (grades 8-12)...
PBS
Pbs: Queen Victoria's Empire (Lesson Plans)
Four lesson plans for exploring the reign of Queen Victoria, with instructions for introducing learners to the positive and negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution, to the leaders of Victorian England, to the role...
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: The Victorians
A look into life during the Victorian Era! Learn about the clothing, inventions, plants, and much more about life during this time period in England.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Child Labor
Looks at child labor in industrialized England during Victorian times. Links are provided throughout the article for additional information on related subjects.
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th Century
The Victorian Web provides a report to British Parliament submitted in 1833 by a medical observer on how work in textile factories affected the physical health of the laborers. Also includes essays from a factory owner's point of view...
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Internet Archive: The Art of England: [Ruskin] Lectures Given in Oxford
Access various digital copies of a published version of four lectures delivered by Victorian critic John Ruskin on the art of England. The lectures, originally published in 1883, comment on the work of a number of English artists of...
Curated OER
Victorian Maid Walking Into a Room With a Steaming Kettle on a Tray
A good examination on how many women in Victorian England supported their families with jobs outside the home and how this helped the British economy.
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Victorian Context: The Rise of England's Middle Class
This site from Victorian Context is an article that talks about the politics of reform in England. It gives information about how these politics effected the influence on the Victorian Literature. It is an informative article that goes...
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