Victorian Era Masterpost

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B O O K S

• Flanders, Judith – The Victorian City
• Hughes, Kristina – Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England
• Jackson, Lee – Daily Life in Victorian London
• Mayhew, Henry et al – The London Underworld in the Victorian Period
• Mitchell, Sally – Daily Life In Victorian England
• Pool, Daniel – What Jane Austin Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
• Stevens, Mark – Life in the Victorian Assylum

E V E R Y D A Y   L I F E

• Popular Names in the Victorian Era

• Cassel’s Household Guide (1869) – basically an instruction manual from 1869 telling you how to do everything from making tea to picking a job.
• Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management: A Guide to Cookery In All Branches (1907) –  Lots of period recipes, plus information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and under house-maids, Lady’s-maid, Maid-of-all-work, Laundry-maid, Nurse and nurse-maid, Monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc.

• The Victorian Era-Society

• Appendix D: English Society in the 1840s

• Class Structure of Victorian England

• Victorian England Social Hierarchy

• Social Restrictions in the Victorian Era

• (Excerpts From) Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England (Regarding Broken Engagements and Premarital Sex)

• Five Filthy Things About Victorian England

• 1841: A window on Victorian Britain

• The Demography of Victorian England and Wales

• What was life like for children in Victorian London?

• Historical Essays: The Victorian Child

• The Life of Infants and Children in Victorian London

• The Inequality Between Genders During the Victorian Era in England

• Women as “the Sex” During the Victorian Era

• Writers Dreamtools – Decades – 1840

• Victorianisms – Adventures in Victorian Slang

• 56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using

• A Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words (1859)
• Victorian slang – a guide to sexual Victorian terms
• A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England: To which is Now First Incorporated the Supplement, by Samuel Pegge (1839)
• Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and Its Environs (1844)
  

• British Slang – Lower Class and Underworld

• Lee Jackson – Dictionary of Victorian London 

• Domestic Violence in Victorian England

• The Victorian wife-beating epidemic
  

• How to Survive and Thrive in the Victorian Era

• 19th-century Radiators and Heating Systems

• The Picture of Dorian Gray; a mirror of the Victorian Era, era of Hypocrisy

• The Victorian Supernatural

• Politics of Victorian England

• Dualism & Dualities – The Victorian Age

• Black Victorians: History we’ve been taught claims we’ve only ever been slaves

• Video: Mini-lecture – London’s Black history

• Flowers – Victorian Bazaar (The Language Of Flowers)

• Victorian Funeral Customs and Superstitions

• 
  Racism and Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England
  
  

M E D I C I N E  &  I L L N E S S 

• Victorian Health

• Medical Developments In Britain During The Nineteenth Century

• Hospitals

• The Entire Case Records from a Victorian Asylum Are Now Online

• Victorian psychiatric patients’ grim fate in hellish 1800s hospitals

• Locating Convalescence in Victorian England

• Sanitation and Disease in Rich and Poor

• 19th Century Diseases

• Death & Childhood in Victorian England

• Health and hygiene in the 19th century

• Disease in the Victorian city: extended version
  

• Musing on Illness in the Victorian Era

• Female hysteria / Vapours

• Sent to the asylum: The Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety

• The History of Women’s Mental Illness

• Anorexia: It’s Not A New Disease

• Rebel Girls: How Victorian Girls Used Anorexia to Conform and Revolt
  

• Warburg’s tincture

• Apothecaries and Medicine in the Victorian Era

• The Creepy Factor in Victorian Medicine

• Medical Advancements: Victorian Era Prosthetics

• The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Movement

• food poisoning in the Victorian era

• Typhus (Gaol Fever)
  

L A W ,  G O V E R N M E N T  &  C R I M E

• Crime in Victorian England

• The 222 Victorian crimes that would get a man hanged

• Juvenile crime in the 19th century

• Victorian women criminals’ records show harsh justice of 19th century

• Organised Crime in “The Mysteries of London” (1844)

• Dickens and the ‘Criminal Class’

• Victorian prisons and punishments

• Victorian Prison Conditions

• The Development of a Police Force

• Life in Nineteenth-Century Prisons as a Context for Great Expectations
  

• Gaols

• Sentences and Punishments

• Courtroom Experience in Victorian England at the time of Great Expectations

• Courts of Justice – Victorian Crime and Punishment

• Victorian Criminal Laws: Barbarism and Progress
  

• Child prisoners in Victorian times and the heroes of change

• Victorian Legislation: a Timeline

• Women and the Law in Victorian England

• The Corn Laws

• The Corn Laws in Victorian England

• The Anti-Corn-Law League

• The Corn Laws and their Repeal 1815-1846

• The Poor Laws During the Victorian Era

• Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England

• Bastardy and Baby Farming in Victorian England

• Baby Farmers and Angelmakers: Childcare in 19th Century

C L I M A T E ,  W E A T H E R   &   E N V I R O N M E N T

• The Climate of London (Luke Howard, 1810-1820 – PDF)
• The Illustrated London Almanack 1847

• Victorian London – Weather – Fog

F A S H I O N

• Victorian Fashion Terms A-M
• Victorian Fashion Terms N-Z

• Early Victorian Undergarments; an introduction, and about silk

• Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 1

• Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 2

• Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 3

• 1830s-1840s Underpinnings

• A Look at an Original 1840s Corded Petticoat

• Lingerie Guide : Crinoline – Petticoat

• 1840s Stays

• Exploring the Myths of Corsets I

• Exploring the Myths of Corsets II

• How to Dress a Victorian Lady

• Pre-Hoop Era 1840-1855

• 1840s Fashion (Pinterest Board)

• 1840-1848 – Early Victorian

  (Pinterest Board)

• 1840’s fashion

  (Pinterest Board)

• 1840’s fashion: men

  (Pinterest Board)

• 1840s Fashion

  (Pinterest Board)

• 1840s Fashion (Nineteenth Century)

  (Pinterest Board)

• 1840’s fashion (Pinterest Board)

• Mourning Dress During the Early Victorian Era
• Victoriana Magazine’s Victorian Fashion

• Early Victorian Women’s Hats; Part 1, concerning bonnets

• Early Victorian Women’s Hats; Part 2, for sun & riding

• Early Victorian Women’s Hats; Part 3, wear whatever you like

• Empire of Shadows – Clothing (Includes very basic information about upper & lower class fashion, military uniforms & undergarments)

• Women’s Costume – Dickens Fair

• Victorian Prudes and their Bizarre Beachside Bathing

• Victorian Feminine Ideal; about the perfect silhouette, hygiene, grooming, & body sculpting

• Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment

• 1840’s Men’s Fashion

• Gentlemen | 

  Early & Mid Victorian Era: A Universal Uniform

T R A N S P O R T A T I O N

• Public transport in Victorian London: Part One: Overground

• Victorian Public Transport: The Omnibus

• Omnibus

• THE HANSOM CAB – A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England

• “Growler” and the Handsome Hansom

• Regency Travel (Earlier than the Victorian era, but still relevant for the earlier years)
  

• A Regency Era Carriage Primer

• The Victorian Thames – River Thames Society [PDF]

• Nineteenth-Century Ships, Boats, and Naval Architecture (dozens of links to relevant articles)

• Early Victorian Rail Travel

• Catching a Train in the Early 1840s

• HORSES: Matching a Team — Color is Only the Beginning

M O N E Y   A N D   F I N A N C E S

• British Currency During The Victorian Era

• Victorian Economics: An Overview

• Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money

• Victorian Economics: a Sitemap

• The Cost of Living in 1888

• Pride and Prejudice Economics: Or Why a Single Man with a Fortune of £4,000 Per Year is a Desirable Husband
• The Price of Bread: Poverty, Purchasing Power, and The Victorian Laborer’s Standard of Living

• How a weekly grocery shop would have cost £1,254 in 1862

• Costs of dying in Victorian and Edwardian England

• 18th Century Wages (Earlier than the Victorian era, but good reference)
• Cost of Items 18th Century 

  (Also earlier than the Victorian era, but good reference)

F O O D  (A N D   L A C K   T H E R E OF)

• Victorian Dining

• The Victorian Pantry, Authentic Vintage Recipies

• Victorian cooking: upperclass dinner

• For Rich or Poor: Creepy Victorian Food

• Victorian History: A Fast Food Generation

• 10 Weird Foods Sold By Victorian Street Vendors

• Victorian Food For The Rich & Poor Children

• Dictionary of Victorian London – Food

• The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse

• Victorian England: a nation of coffee drinkers
  

• London Life: Victorian Coffee Sellers
  

• Victorian street food imagined

• What the Poor Ate
  

• Adulteration and Contamination of Food in Victorian England

• Workhouse Food

• An Overview of food in 19th Century Gaols

• Food and Famine in Victorian Literature

• Milk teeth of Irish famine’s youngest victims reveal secrets of malnutrition
  

D R U G S   &   D R I N K

• The Temperance Movement and Class Struggle in Victorian England

• Gin Palaces – The Victorian Dictionary

• Alcohol and Alcoholism in Victorian England

• Drugs in Victorian Britain

• Cannabis Britannica: The rise and demise of a Victorian wonder-drug

• Laudanum Use in the 19th Century

• Victorian Women on Drugs, Part 1: Queen Victoria

• Victorian Women on Drugs, Part 2: Female Writers

• Substance Abuse in the Victorian Era

• Opium Dens and Opium Usage in Victorian England

• Chinese Opium Trade; as it was in the mid 1800s

• Poetry, Pain, and Opium in Victorian England

L E I S U R E   &   E N T E R T A I N M E N T

• Victorian Entertainments: We Are Amused

• Entertainment in Victorian London

• Leisure, An Extensive study of the Victorian Era

• Vauxhall Gardens | Jane Austen’s World

• Theatre – Victorian Era 1837-1901

• Almack’s Assembly Rooms

• The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
  

• Restaurants – The Victorian Dictionary

• The Story of Music Hall

• Sex, Drugs and Music Hall

• Victorian and Edwardian Public Houses (List, links to relevant articles about each listed pub)
  

• Victorian London Taverns, Inns and Public Houses

• Gambling in Historic England

• Gambling in London’s Most Ruinous Gentlemen’s Clubs

• Victorian Sport: Playing by the Rules

• Seven singular sports from the Victorian era

• Penny Dreadfuls; the Victorian era adventures for the masses

• Romantic Era Songs

H O L I D A Y S & C E L E B R A T I O N S

• A Victorian New Year

• Fortune Telling for the Victorian New Year

• Hogmanay: New Year’s Eve, the Scottish Way

• Victorian Valentine

• Valentines Day – The Complete Victorian

• Easter Traditions During the Victorian Era

• halloween – The Complete Victorian

• the traditions of halloween

• Victorian Christmas – History of Christmas

• Christmas in the Victorian Era

W E A P O N R Y  &  V I O L E N C E

• The Victorian Gentleman’s Self-Defense Toolkit

• Early Victorian attitudes towards violent crime

• Victorian Violence: Repelling Ruffians (Part One)

• Victorian Violence: Repelling Ruffians (Part Two)

• Victorian Violence: Repelling Ruffians (Part Three)

• Victorian Violence, Part Four ~ Elegant Brutality for Ladies and Gentlemen of Discernment

• 10 Deadly Street Gangs Of The Victorian Era

• Early Victorian Handguns; Part 1

• Early Victorian Handguns; Part 2

• Early Victorian Handguns; Part 3

• Pistol Duelling during the Early Victorian Era

• Cane Guns: Victorian Concealed Firearms of Gentlemen & Cads

M A N N E R S   &   E T T I Q U E T T E

• Manners & Tone of Good Society (This is a Victorian book on manners, written by an unnamed ‘Member Of The Aristocracy,’ and is available in full to read and covers a ton of ground, everything from leaving cards and morning calls to introductions and titles, and etiquette for many different types of parties and events).
• The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society (1875)
  
• Manners for the Victorian Gentleman
  
• Victorian Dancing Etiquette

• A Checklist of 19th Century Etiquette

• Social Rituals During The Victorian Era

• An Online Dating Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era

• Calling Cards and the Etiquette of Paying Calls

• Morning Calls and Formal Visits

• A Time Traveller’s Guide to Victorian Era Tea Etiquette

• Traveling Etiquette and Tips for Victorian Women

• Equestrian Etiquette and Attire in the Victorian Era

• Etiquette Faux Pas and Other Misconceptions About Afternoon Tea
  

• Victorian Table Etiquette

• Victorian London – Publications – Etiquette and Household Advice Manuals
  

• Etiquette Rules for Dinner Parties from a Victorian Magazine

• The Etiquette of Proper Introductions in Victorian Times

• Forms Of Introductions And Salutations. Etiquette Of Introductions
  

• Etiquette for the Victorian Child

• Victorian and Edwardian Mourning Etiquette

• Etiquette Of Carriage-Riding

• Victorian Etiquette – Shopping

U P P E R C L A S S   &   N O B I L I T Y

• Royalty, Nobility, Gentry, & Titles; A Matter of Victorian Ranks & Precedence

• Order of Precedence in England and Wales
  

• The Victorian Era – The Debutante Tradition

• The Gentleman – The Victorian Web 

• “Coming Out” During the Early Victorian Era; about debutantes

• The London Season

• The London Season – The History Box

T H E  M I D D L E C L A S S

• The middle classes: etiquette and upward mobility

• The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class

• The Victorian Man and the Middle Class Household – Domesticity as an Ideal

• Middle Class Life in the Late 19th Century

• A Woman
  ’s World: How Afternoon Tea Defined
  and Hindered Victorian Middle Class Women

• Working Women in the Victorian Middle-Class

• The ASBO teens of Victorian Britain: How middle-class children terrorized parks by shouting at old ladies, chasing sheep and vandalizing trees
  

• “A Dangerous Kind:” Domestic Violence and The Victorian Middle Class [PDF]

• Eligible Bachelors: Suitors and Courtship in the Lower Middle Class

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T H E   W O R K I N G C L A S S

• The working classes and the poor

• Poverty and the working classes (links to relevant articles)

• Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era …

• The Working-Class Peace Movement
  in Victorian England

• Victorian Child Labor and the Conditions They Worked In

• History of Working Class Mothers in Victorian England

• Income vs Expenditure in Working-Class Victorian England

• What about the Workers? – 1830s – 1840s

T H E   S E R V A N T   C L A S S

• Household management and Servants of the Victorian Era

• Victorian Domestic Servant Hierarchy and Wages

• Domestic Servants

• Serving the house: The cost of Victorian domestic servants

• Domestic Servants and their Duties

• Precedence in the Servants Hall
• The Servant’s Quarters in 19th Century Country Houses Like Downton Abbey

• The REAL story of Britain’s servant class

• Servants: A life below stairs

• The Green Baize Door: Dividing Line Between Servant and Master
• The Victorian Domestic Servant by Trevor May: A Review

T H E   U N D E R C L A S S  (T H E  P O O R) 

• The Underclass (or the Submerged Class)

• Poverty in Victorian England: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

• Down and Out in Victorian London

• Poverty and the Poor | Dickens & the Victorian City

• The Victorian Poorhouse

• Poorhouses

• Victorian Workhouses

• Entering and Leaving the Workhouse

• The Poor Law

• The Poor Law Amendment Act

• The New Poor Law – Victorian Crime and Punishment

• London’s Ragamuffins

I N T E R S E C T I O N A L I T Y (Of Class, Gender, Race, and Ability)

• Class, Gender, and the Asylum

• The Impact of Social Class Divisions on the Women of Victorian England

• The Daily Life of Disabled People in Victorian England

W O R K &

• Early and Mid-Victorian Attitudes towards Victorian
  Working-Class Prostitution, with a Special Focus on
  London

• Prostitution and the Nineteenth Century: In Search of the ‘Great Social Evil’

• Attitudes toward sexuality and sexual identity

• Victorian slang – a guide to sexual Victorian terms

O T H E R   M A S T E R P O S T S

• Writing Research – Victorian Era by ghostflowerdreams

• How to Roleplay in the Victorian Era by keir-reviews
  

• Legit’s Historical Fashion Masterpost by legit-writing-tips
  

• Susanna Ives – Many Research Links (covers Regency Era – Victorian Era)