During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, life for women in Britain was much different in many regards than in the present day. Women could not join the professions, and married women had no rights to property. By the time of Queen Victoria, women's lives had become even more transformed, and this change produced new feminine roles and also produced a clutch of great poets,...

Designed and maintained by Lee Jackson, an author and librarian, the Victorian Dictionary is a useful resource on Victorian London history during the 19th century. This site contains over 40 categories that range from architecture, to clothing and fashions, to dates and events, to entertainment and recreation, to words and expressions. The site also contains a bibliography containing most of the...

Part social history, part public documentary, Peter Higginbotham has created a Web site devoted to the workhouse, a feature of the English landscape for over two hundred years that provided employment for the destitute in return for board and lodging. Through a series of primary documents, including the Poor Laws of the 19th century, Mr. Higginbotham offers a descriptive and nuanced perspective on...

What was life in Victorian England like? The British Library shares posters, pamphlets, diaries, political reports, and illustrations that tell about this seven-decade stretch of the 19th century. This illustrative tour through a fascinating stretch of British history is told via a wonderful set of essays by Liza Picard that explore topics like "The Working Classes and the Poor" and "The Rise of...

Formally known as the Central Criminal Court of London, the Old Bailey is arguably the world's most well-known criminal court. Serving the Commonwealth since the 17th century, the Old Bailey has seen hundreds of thousands of trials for every offense imaginable, along with serving as the setting for many important trials of the famous and infamous. Designed as a collaboration between the University...

The Yellow Nineties Online is an open-access digital archive dedicated to Great Britain's avante-garde periodicals and influential movers and shakers of the 1890s. Edited by Ryerson University scholars Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, The Yellow Nineties contains complete editions of The Yellow Book, dated from April 1894 through April 1897 (FlipBook, HTML, XML, PDF). It also houses a...