Clothing Research Resources
Guide Questions:
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What were the clothes like?
How is clothing different for people of various classes?
Were the clothes comfortable?
How many clothes/ outfits did most people have?
What kinds of accessories were used?
How is the clothing different/ similar for children?
Victorian clothing
http://trulyvictorian.netfirms.com/history.html
Victorian Fashion
http://www.victoriana.com/Victorian-Fashion/
Fashion History
http://www.fashion-era.com/the_victorian_era.htm
Various Links for Victorian info
http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/victorian.html
Victorian Fashion
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/victlinks.htm
Victorian men’s wear
http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/index.php?from=topnav
Victorian Life
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Victorian_index.htm
Crinolines and bustles
http://www.victorianbazaar.com/crinoline.html
19th century fashion
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ecity19c/viccity/fashion.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Occupations/ Apprenticeships
Resources for Research
Guide Questions
1. For what kinds of jobs would people have training?
2. How long would an apprenticeship last?
3. What kinds of jobs did women have?
4. Who/ what class of people worked during this time?
5. When would people begin to work?
6. How did technology change work in England?
Apprenticeships
http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/history/victorian-apprentice.htm
Excellent site!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/earning_a_living/working_life_census_
01.shtml
Masters and Men
http://victorianweb.org/authors/gaskell/61n_s10.html
Change in Victorian England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/speed_01.shtml
Technology in Victorian England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/victorian_technology_01.shtml
Work in Victorian England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/standard/work/learning/index.shtml
Work
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ecity19c/viccity/work.html
Working women
http://www.manshead.beds.sch.uk/History/AS%20and%20A%20Level/Votes%20for%20
Women/Women%20and%20work/middle_class_women_and_employment.htm
Bankruptcy in Victorian England
http://victorianweb.org/economics/bankrupt.html
Victorian England
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm
Social Classes
http://www.shelbycs.org/ms/media%20center/victorian%20england/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Labor Issues
Resources for Research
Guide Questions:
1. What are factories like?
2. What kind of labor exist for the working class?
3. What kind of life do workers have?
4. What are the working conditions like for factory workers?
5. How are working conditions different for children?
6. How are workers paid?
Labor Conditions and Child Labor
http://web.archive.org/web/20021003002605/http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/in
dusrevolt/ppframe.htm
Working Conditions
http://web.archive.org/web/20020203182609/http://www.hopwood.ac.uk/heritage/loc
al/html/milltown.htm
Physical Effects of Workers
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205153200/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/workers2.html
Child Labor (I)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
Child Labor (II)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019043751/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/hist8.html
A Summary of Child Labor in Victorian England
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019043751/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/hist8.html
Victorian Money
http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/wilkie/coins.htm
The Life of a Servant
http://web.archive.org/web/20001214224500/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/work/burnett3.html
Victorian Working Women
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017065917/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/work/burnett2.html
Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission in 1842
http://web.archive.org/web/20001209042000/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/ashley.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
The Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Textiles.htm
Timeline of laws
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/industrial/timeline2.htm
The Trade Union Movement
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm
Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee (Michael Sadler secured a
parliamentary investigation of conditions in the textile factories)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001109204400/http://applebutter.freeservers.com/wor
ker/
The 1833 Factory Act
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot13/snapshot13.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Education Issues Resources
for Research
Guide Questions:
1. How is schooling different for children of various classes?
2. What did they learn about?
3. What are boarding schools?
4. What was life like in a boarding school?
5. How were 19th century schools different from schools today?
6. What was an apprentice in 1840?
Child Labor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
State Involvement in Public Education before the 1870 Education Act describes how
many children went to school
http://web.archive.org/web/20001205100700/http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/
history/rosen.html
Dickens' education
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london_map.html#top
British Education History and Types of Schools
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/education.htm
"Public" Schools
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/pubschl.html
Victorian Social History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/sochistov.html
Daily Life
http://www.victorians.org.uk/
British Education
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/education.htm
How Were we Taught? (Scroll down to BACKGROUND)
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot15/snapshot15.htm
Victorian Schools
http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/llanidloes/edmenu.shtml
Charles Dickens and Victorian Education
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/litvack.html
The History of State Schools (Notice the links on Ragged Schools, Workhouse,
Victorian Schools and Dame School)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001001190004/http://panizzi.shef.ac.uk/med/cathy/intr
o.html
A Report from a Class in England On Victorian Schools. (They investigated a school
30 years after A Christmas Carol was written. It is a glimpse of life in an elementary
school.)
http://www.st-thomas.angus.sch.uk/victorian_school.htm
Education in Victorian times
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ecity19c/viccity/education.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Social Issues
Resources for research
Guide Questions:
1. What classes of people live in London?
2. What is the quality of life for different classes?
3. What is daily life like for people living in London?
4. How much is poverty a factor in London?
5. What is it like to be a child in London?
6. Is the quality of life getting better or worse?
Poverty and Socialism
http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/ppframe.htm/
Wages and Quality of Life
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health9.html
Women and Children and Health
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health6.html
Social Issues
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickens1.html
Dickens's London: The East End
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/dickens.html
Child Labor
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
Dickens on Social Issues
http://yn.la.ca.us/victorian/hypermail/0134.html
Interactive Map of London
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/dickens_london_map.html#top
Religion and Society
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/religion.htm
Social Class
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/Class.html
Victorian London
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITlondon.htm
Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London During the Nineteenth
Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/huysman-london.html
Victorian Political History: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/histov.html
A Brief History of London
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist4.html
Bawnboy Workhouse (A place the poor were sent to)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001117123600/http://www.cavannet.ie/history/archeo/
sites/work-hse.htm
A Tour of Victorian London
http://www.cityofshadows.net/
Victorian Health Trends
http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine/healthtrends.html
A Caring Nation?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/caring/default.htm
The Workhouse
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019054735/http://history.powys.org.uk/school1/poo
r/workmenu.html
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/
Timeline of Poor Laws and Workhouses
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/victorianbritain/caring/timeline2.htm
What did people think of the Poor Law? (Scroll down to BACKGROUND)
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot08/snapshot8.htm
Who could vote?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/politics/chartists/default.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Transportation Resources for research
Guide Questions
1. What were common forms of transportation in this time?
2. How did different classes travel?
3. Was the transportation reliable or comfortable?
4. Was there public transportation?
5. What problems occurred?
6. How did advancements in transportation change life in England?
Virtual Victorian Transportation
http://www.victorians.org.uk/
http://www.cityofshadows.net/content/view/17/31/
Transportation in the 19th century
http://www.literary-liaisons.com/article033.html
Victorian Railways
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/rrov.html
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/railways.htm
http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/railroad.html
British Waterways and Canals
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/canals_and_waterways.htm
Travel
http://www.victoriana.com/Travel/
Bicycling
http://www.victoriana.com/directory/bikes.html
Carriages
http://www.victoriana.com/Carriages/
Transportation
http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/victorian.html#transport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Entertainment & Victorian recreations
Resources for Research
Guide Questions
1. What were some common games/ activities among adults?
2. What games/ activities did children play?
3. In what ways was entertainment different among the classes?
4. What did games/ activities reveal about Victorian life?
5. What games of the Victorian times are similar to those of today?
6. How were activities changing in relationship to the changing times?
Recreations
http://www.fashion-era.com/victorian_recreations.htm
Useful sites for Victorian entertainment
http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/victorian.html
Victorian England
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Victorian_index.htm
Sports, hobbies, and past-times
http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vsport.html
A Happy Nation
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/happy/default.htm
Victorian Child Games
http://www.judgeslodging.org.uk/education/Pages/victorian_games.html
Music, Theatre, etc.
http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/mtov.html
Victorian Games and Toys
http://www.aboutbritain.com/Articles/victorian-games-and-toys.asp
http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/funandgames.htm
http://www.ushist.com/victorian_toys-and-games.htm
http://www.victoriana.com/directory/entertainment.html
http://www.victoriana.com/directory/dolls.html
http://www.victoriana.com/directory/music.html
http://www.victoriaspast.com/ParlorGames/parlor_games.htm
http://www.victorianbazaar.com/hobbies.html
http://www.oldfashionedliving.com/parlour-games.html
Virtual Victorian Leisure
http://www.victorians.org.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
Food Research Resources
Guide Questions:
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What were meals like for Victorians?
Which meal was their main meal?
What was the purpose of tea time?
How was eating/ meal time different among the classes?
How were meals prepared? (appliances/ technology)
What was a common Christmas meal like?
The workhouse diet
http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/post-medieval/workhouses/workhouse%20life.htm#diet
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?life/life.shtml
Fish and Chips
http://www.niagara.co.uk/fish_and_chips.htm
Brunch
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq7.html#brunch
Victorian Christmas foods
http://www.foodtimeline.org/christmasfood.html
Victorian Cooking
http://www.housemouse.net/cookbook2.htm
Victorian Kitchen
http://www.housemouse.net/hkitch6.htm
http://kawhq.com/victorian-era/food%20and%20fashion.htm
Victorian Christmas
http://www.victoriana.com/christmas/entertaining1.html
High and Low Tea
http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/lowtea.html
Virtual Victorians
http://www.victorians.org.uk/
Food of Industrial England
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005446/text_version/English/industrial.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/