Sites of interest for Victorian Studies
Gateways | Discussion groups | Organisations | Other sites of interest
These listings are selected and in no way comprehensive or exhaustive. Click on a heading above to move to that section.
Gateways
Quality-controlled subject gateways to English studies resources - go to the subject indexes, and select eg Victorian or 19th century literature, drama, poetry, theatre resources
- Academic Info Humanities Gateway
- Backstage a performing arts gateway for the UK - funded as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme
- BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries): Literature and rhetoric
- Intute: Humanities
- Victoria Research Web Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research from the History Department, Indiana University
- The Victorian Web the WWW translation of Brown University's Context 61, which serves as a resource for courses in Victorian literature
- Victorian Web Sites Many links from a site maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, an Associate Professor at Nagoya University, Japan
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English
Discussion groups
- JISCmail - national academic mailing list service facilitating discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community and beyond
- Victoria: 19th century British culture and society
- Yahoo! Groups Sign up to join discussion groups. Search on Victorian
Organisations
- Alliance of Literary Societies umbrella organisation for literary societies in the UK, formed in 1973 with c125 members
- Arts and Humanities Research Council - supporting research into the arts and humanities
- British Academy - the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences
- British Association for Victorian Studies
- Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship
- English Subject Centre - part of the Higher Education Academy - supports the teaching of English literature, language and creative writing in UK Higher Education
- The Gaskell Society To promote and encourage the study and appreciation of the work and life of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865).
- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies an international group of scholars dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion and research
- The Tennyson Society to promote the study and understanding of the life and work of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Victorian Society the national society responsible for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts.
- The William Morris Society aims to make the life and work of Morris and his associates better known
Other sites of interest
- 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century from Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
- 1901 Census for England and Wales
- A2A: Access to archives contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
- Aspects of the Victorian Book from the British Library
- Bolles Collection on the history of London: London atlas a digital archive on the topography of London.
- BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) Unlocking government publications: a web-based finding tool for over 23,000 British Official Publications from 1688 to 1995
- British History Online from the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
- Charles Booth Online Archive a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the British Library of Political and Economic Science [BLPES] (the Library of the London School of Economics) and the University of London Library. The archives of the BLPES contain the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in London, dating from 1886-1903.
- Charles Darwin the complete works online
- Charles Dickens Page from David Purdue, links to online texts of many of Charles Dickens's works, together with biographical information and information about the context of his works
- Corvey Women Writers on the Web CW3 An electronic guide to literature 1796–1834 from Sheffield Hallam University - a database containing material on 417 women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries and literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library
- Crace Collection of maps of London from the British Library
- Darwin Correspondence Project with the complete, searchable, texts of around 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin up to the year 1865.
- Evanion Collection of Victorian printed ephemera at the British Library
- Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 catalogue records from the annual exhibitions
- Gaslight discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919
- The Gissing Newsletter the full text from 1965-2000
- Historical directories digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919
- Internet Library of Early Journals a digital library of 18C and 19C journals
- Literary Resources - Victorian British part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch, English Department, Rutgers University, Newark.
- The Mark Rutherford Resource The aim of this site is to make Mark Rutherford (pseudonym of William Hale White)‘s work more widely known (particularly his journalism), and to act as a forum for discussions about him.
- Monuments and dust: the culture of Victorian London - the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London. Based at UCL and the University of Virginia.
- Nineteenth century serials edition (NSCE) free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection From the Internet Public Library (IPL), can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey - London's Central Criminal Court 1674-1913
- Rossetti Archive the complete writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - a hypermedia archive
- Science in the nineteenth century periodical searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals
- Stanford's library map of London 1862-1871
- Victorian illustrated newspapers and journals: select list from the British Library
- Victorian Sensationalism Online focuses on several aspects of Victorian sensationalism, especially the sensation novel -- its authors, texts, and sensational popularity
- Victorian Women Writers Project from the University of Indiana
- Who's Who in Victorian Cinema a biographical guide to the world of Victorian film.
- William Hone: the Bio-text a web project by Kyle Grimes at the University of Alabama, Birmingham
- William Morris Gallery housed in the 18th Century Water House, Morris' family home, 1848 to 1856, and set in Lloyd Park in Walthamstow
