Nineteenth Century History Society and Culture United Kingdom
Nineteenth Century History Society and Culture United Kingdom
Nineteenth Century
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- 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.
- Dedicated to Victorian enthusiasts: a brief history and photos of the Victorian Era including Queen Victoria, Cameos and Victorian Architecture
- Thirty-five biographies of women who played a prominent role in the struggle for equality. Includes written primary sources produced by, or about, them.
- Text from selected issues of The Penny Magazine, which was published every Saturday for a working class readership
- 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)
- Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.
- 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 at the heigth of the Georgian Era; 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 o
- Victorian artefacts, objects, news, photographs, presented in an innovative way for schools, parents and those interested in the Victorian era.
- 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.
- Provides research resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain.
- 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.
- Resources for school projects on the Victorian era. Music, images of the Queen, the phonograph, Florence Nightingale and Education.
- Aims to computerise a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.
- Categories include: Factory Reformers, Supporters of Child Labour, Life in the Factory, The Factory Workers, Tactics and Issues, and The Factory Acts
- Detail-rich site that provides insight into the production and publishing of books in Britain during the nineteenth century.
- 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.
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