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)