duPont Library: English 374: The Victorian Novel: About 19th Century Britain

Explore Great Britain

An Introduction to Social Policy
An overview of social policy in Great Britain from 1601 to 1948.
'Bleak House': The Novel as Source Material
From the BBC, by Professor Martin Daunton
History Trails: Victorian Britain
An overview of the time period from the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).
The Victorian Dictionary
Explore the world of the Victorians through entries from a variety of topics from Advertising to Disease to Markets to Weather and more.
The Victorian Web
A view of the 'web' of connections between all things Victorian.

Dickens and his World
Small online exhibit of Dickens-related images from the Oxford Bodleian Library.
Images of the Nineteenth Century
Image galleries of 19th Century ephemera. "The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera offers a fresh view of British history through primary, uninterpreted printed documents which, produced for short-term use, have survived by chance."