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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Becoming Queen |
Victoria's diary extracs on being told she was now queen |
19th century, Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history | view |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Coursework Handbook |
Includes questions, documents and a bibliography. |
19th century, Victorian, Victorian England, Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture | view |
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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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'The Shadow of a Great City', cartoon from People magazine, 1902, reflecting popular fear of urban crime, in the immediate aftermath of the... |
Victorian England, Victorian Culture, victorian history, satire, cartoons, Crime | view |