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Victorian England

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Link Women's Work, By Professor Pat Hudson

A further key aspect of Victorian life explored here

Queen Victoria, Victorian, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, 19th century view
Link Crime and the Victorians, By Professor Clive Emsley

A very useful study of this key area of Victorian England

Queen Victoria, Victorian, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, 19th century view
Link The Victorian Web

A general and very wide ranging guide to all things Victorian with multiple additional links and contributing authors.

Victorian, Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, 19th century view
Link The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class, By Dr Donna Loftus

Another key theme of the Victorian period

19th century, Queen Victoria, Victorian, Victorian Culture, Victorian England view
Image collection satire on middle classes

‘Sketch of a bench on the (Parisian) boulevards, occupied by only four English people who only know each other by sight’, Punch, 1870

A...

Queen Victoria, Victorian Culture, Victorian England, 19th century view
Image collection victorian sweatshops

A punch cartoon from 1849 illustrating the hidden realities of contemporary sweat shops.

(Author's Photo)

Victorian Culture, Victorian England, Queen Victoria, 19th century, victorian history view
Image collection fear of urban crime

'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
Image collection french cartoon on victorian imperialisn

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
Document George Elliot on Victorian Women's Fiction

Some key extracts from Eliot's work

Victorian England, victorian history, Victorian Culture, George Eliot, Women's writing view
Document Key Themes: Image & Art

Some key themes from this unit

Victorian Culture, Victorian England, victorian history, 19th century, Painting view
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