Victorian Culture

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	A French cartoon satirising the supposed duplicity of British interests in Africa, from 1898. (my photo)	Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, Scramble for Africa	view
A Snapshot of London Life	Extracts from Mayhew's classic studies of Victorian streetlife	Nineteenth century, victorian history, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, Henry Mayhew	view
Alive, yet dead: Mourning in the Victorian period, Sandra Franz	This article explores the attitude towards death through two different sources – a photograph of parents posing with their deceased infant as an...	Tennyson, mourning, 19th century, Victorian Culture, Photography, Death	view
Are Diamonds a Girl’s Best Friend? ‘Commodity Fetishism’ and Ownership in the Social Economy of Victorian Britain by Deborah Olds	f India was perceived as the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of the British Empire by the imperialists then the acquisition by Britain of the Koh-i-Noor...	diamonds, Koh-i-Noor, Victorian Culture, Anthony Trollope	view
Becoming Queen	Victoria's diary extracs on being told she was now queen	19th century, Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history	view
British Library Romantics and Victorians site	Explore the British Library’s greatest literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods	Romantic, romanticism, Victorian Culture, Victorian	view
British Library Victorian Britain site	Discover historical sources and articles written by experts that reveal the everyday reality of living in Victorian Britain. The Victorian period...	Victorian, Victorian Culture, victorian history	view
Christ in the everyday nineteenth-century experience: examining a collection of daily prayers and a painting of Jesus by Celia Jarvis	John Keble and William Holman Hunt produced work at the bookends of a century renowned for its scientific and industrial progress. Both men,...	William Holman Hunt, Pre-raphaelite, Victorian Culture, Christianity, Faith	view
Coursework Handbook	Includes questions, documents and a bibliography.	19th century, Victorian, Victorian England, Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture	view
Covetousness and commodification: the eroticised female body and cultural representations of death by Natasha Shirman	The Victorian cult of mourning meant that the ritual of death became a visual affair, which placed women firmly at its centre. These gendered...	mourning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Victorian Culture	view

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