Victorian Social History: Sitemap (original) (raw)
Public Health
Conditions of Life and Labor
- Victorian Occupations — Life and Labor in the Victorian Period (sitemap)
- Victorian Women's Occupations (sitemap)
- Philanthropy in Victorian England (sitemap)
- Crime in Victorian England (sitemap)
- What was the life of a typical Englishman just before Victoria ascended the throne?
- Wages, the Cost of Living, and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money
- Housing for Rich and Poor (sitemap)
- The Victorian Building Boom
- The Art and Culture of Victorian Mourning
- The Lack of Social Security in Victorian England
- The Life of the Industrial Worker in Early Ninteenth-Century England
- Slums and Slumming in Late-Victorian London
- Gypsies, Roma or Travellers
- Child Labor
- Stained Glass and Gaslight — Darkness, Smog, and a Little Light in Victorian Cities
- "Nothing Will Beat the Old Times": A Victorian Dialogue
- Billingsgate (London Fishmarket) at 5 am
- Clara Collett, Charles Booth, and Urban Poverty
- Needlewomen: Dressmakers, Milliners, and Slop-workers
- The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers
- Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission
- Life in London (an account from 1871)
- [Review of] Thomas R. C. Gibson-Brydon's The Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London: Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable
- The Evangelicals' Positive Influence on English Society
- Related Site: The Workhouse
- Related Site: Quintin Bradley's Labour History Research "for researchers into British labour history and early socialist movements."
- Related Site: The Journal of John Daniel Thompson (1812-93), sometime manager of the Northumberland Arms, a London pub.
- Letters from the Past: a collection of primary sources
- Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
Race, Class, and Gender Issues
- Race and Class (sitemap)
- Social Class
- The Gentleman
- Social Commentary and Victorian Illustration: The Representation of Working Class Life, 1837–1880
- Housing for Rich and Poor and those in between
- The Sutton Dwellings and the struggle to create housing for the poor
- Then and Now: Posh, Toff, and the Victorians
- Prominent Victorian Members of The Athenaeum Club
- Cotton versus Silk: Social Class and Mechanization
- Etiquette
- Sabbatarianism, Sabbath Observance, and Social Class
- "Weeping Willow" stands for "Pillow": Victorian Rhyming Slang
- "Earth Yenneps": Victorian Back Slang
- Prostitution in Victorian England
- To taste of Bacchus' blessings now and then: a sampling of Victorian Toasts and Sentiments
- Anti-Irish Prejudice
- Contraception in Victorian Britain: A Bibliography of Secondary Materials
- [Review of] Neil McKenna's Fanny and Stella: The Young Men who Shocked Victorian England
- Sex, Scandal, and the Novel
- Women's History
- Review of Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Stories of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Education and the Lives of Children
- Victorian Education (sitemap)
- British Public Schools — An Introduction
- Victorian Universities (sitemap)
- Ragged Schools
- State Involvement in Public Education before the 1870 Education Act
- Science and Mathematics in Victorian Education: A Bibliography
- The Anti-Technological Bias of Victorian Education and Britain's Economic Decline
- Death of Children and the Victorian Novel
- Victorian orphanages
- Kipling's as Children's Author — Duty and Heritage
Leisure and Amusements
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- Punch, the Illustrated London News, and other Victorian Periodicals on Leisure and Amusements
- The Development of Leisure in Britain, 1700-1850
- The Development of Leisure in Britain after 1850
- Technology and Leisure in Britain after 1850
- Seaside Resorts and Spas (sitemap)
- From London Coffee Houses to London Clubs
- The Music Hall (sitemap)
- Pantomime
- London theaters
- Sports and Recreation (sitemap)
- Nineteenth Century Fortune-Telling: From the Drawing Room to the Court Room
- Review of Lee Jackson's Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Hall to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Victorian Cities, Towns, and Countryside
- London: an Introduction
- London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life (1871)
- London Buildings and Monuments illustrated in the Victorian Web
- Other cities
- Environment and landscape
Miscellaneous
- Staying in touch — how people sent letters
- England as "the European center of suicide"
- The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851
- Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities
- Victorian Culture Shock
- The Metropolitan Police
- Victorian Political History: An Overview
- Occupations 1851, 1861, 1871 from the Census returns
Economic History
- Economics: An Overview
- Capitalism
- Corn Laws
- Abandonment and Restoration of the Gold Standard
- What aspects of Victorian culture have been lost with decimalisation?