Resources
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Web Resources
Australian Newspapers, Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/
The British Empire Gateway
http://www.ualberta.ca/~janes/EMPIRE.html
Chartist Ancestors
http://www.chartists.net/
See Malcolm Chase, ‘Digital Chartists: Online Resources for the Study of Chartism’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2 2009 , pages 294 – 301
Mike Sanders, ‘The Chartist Text in an Age of Digital Reproduction’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2 2009 , pages 301 – 307
Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration (DMVI)
http://www.dmvi.cf.ac.uk/
Reviewed by Brian Maidment, ‘REVIEWS OF DIGITISED SCHOLARLY RESOURCES’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 13: (2008), pp. 108 — 124
The Dictionary of Victorian London
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online (darwin-online)
http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Reviewed by Jonathan Smith, ‘REVIEWS OF DIGITISED SCHOLARLY RESOURCES’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 13: (2008), pp. 108 — 124
Contemporary and Historical Census Collections (CHCC)
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/data/chcc.asp
See by Richard Deswarte, ‘Growing the “Faith in Numbers”: Quantitative Digital Resources and Historical Research in the Twenty-First Century’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Convict Records Online (relating to 75,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land)
http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/generic/convict-records-online
The Forget Me Not Archive
http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/
Gladcat is an online catalogue of Gladstone’s reading and library, housed at St Deiniols
http://www.st-deiniols.com/the-library/gladcat.htm
Great Britain Historical Database Online
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbh.asp
See by Richard Deswarte, ‘Growing the “Faith in Numbers”: Quantitative Digital Resources and Historical Research in the Twenty-First Century’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS)
http://www.gbhgis.org/
See Alexis Weedon, ‘Digital Resources and Quantitative Research’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Greenwood’s Map of London, 1827
http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/
Historical GIS Research Network
http://www.hgis.org.uk/
See Alexis Weedon, ‘Digital Resources and Quantitative Research’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website
www.histpop.org
See by Richard Deswarte, ‘Growing the “Faith in Numbers”: Quantitative Digital Resources and Historical Research in the Twenty-First Century’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
John Leech Sketch Archives from Punch
http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/
Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mapmoment/
See Alexis Weedon, ‘Digital Resources and Quantitative Research’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Nines (Nineteenth-Century Scholarship on Line)
http://www.nines.org/
See Dana Wheeles, ‘Redesigning NINES’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1 April 2010 , pages 145 – 149
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html
See Malcolm Chase, ‘Digital Chartists: Online Resources for the Study of Chartism’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2 2009 , pages 294 – 301
Mike Sanders, ‘The Chartist Text in an Age of Digital Reproduction’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 2 2009 , pages 301 – 307
Nineteenth-Century Poor Law Union and Workhouse Record
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/workhouse.asp
The Old Bailey Online: Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
See Rosalind Crone, ‘Crime – and its Fabrication: A Review of New Digital Resources in the History of Crime’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 14, Issue 1 2009 , pages 125 – 134
Olive Schreiner Letters Online
www.oliveschreiner.org
The Poetess Archive
http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/index.html
The Reading Experience Database (RED), 1450–1945
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/
See Matthew Bradley, The Reading Experience Database, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1 April 2010 , pages 151 – 153
Shafquat Towheed, ‘Reading in the Digital Archive’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1 April 2010 , pages 139 – 143
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/sciper/
Trade Union Ancestors
http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/
The Victorian Plays Project
http://victorian.worc.ac.uk/modx/
The Victorian Turkish Baths
http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Voluntary Action History Society
www.vahs.org.uk
The Workhouse
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
General Nineteenth Century Web Resources
British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
Victoria Research Web (an indispensable research guide)
http://victorianresearch.org/
The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
General Literary Web Resources
The Literary Gothic
http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html
Minor Victorian Poets and Authors
http://gerald-massey.org.uk/
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Periodical Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1846-1900
http://www.engl.duq.edu/servus/PR_Critic/index.html
Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Victorian Literary Studies Archive
http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concordance/
Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
The Oscholars (a group of journals and webpages devoted to exploring the literature and arts of the fin-de-siècle)
http://www.oscholars.com/
Authors
Most Author Societies (below) provide links to specialist websites.
Mitsu Matsuoka’s Victorian Literary Studies Archive provides an excellent starting point for many writers.
http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/concordance/
Grant Allen Website
https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfj62zqb_20cfsvg4
Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society
http://www.bronte.org.uk/
The Browning Society
http://www.browningsociety.org/
Wilkie Collins Society
http://www.wilkie-collins.info/wilkie_collins_society.htm
The Diary of a Nobody Website
https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfj62zqb_9283×4j2
The Dickens Project
http://www2.ucsc.edu/dickens/
The Disraeli Project
http://www.queensu.ca/disraeli/index.html
George Eliot
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html
The Gaskell Society
http://www.gaskellsociety.co.uk/
The Gaskell Web
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Gaskell.html
George Gissing Website
https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfj62zqb_169gx4gvwdk
The Thomas Hardy Association
http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/ttha/
William Morris Society
http://www.morrissociety.org/
The Ruskin Society
http://www.midwarks.info/ruskinsoc/
Robert Louis Stevenson Website
http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/
The Rossetti Archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/
The Tennyson Society
http://community.lincolnshire.gov.uk/thetennysonsociety/index.asp?catId=15855
The Trollope Society
http://www.trollopesociety.org/
The Oscar Wilde Society
http://www.oscarwildesociety.co.uk/
The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website
http://www.mrshenrywood.co.uk/
The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship
http://www.cmyf.org.uk/
Associations
AVSA, Australian Victorian Studies Association
http://www.avsa.unimelb.edu.au/
BAVS, British Association for Victorian Studies
http://www.bavsuk.org/index.htm
BWWA, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Association
http://www.ipfw.edu/bwwa/
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/
NAVSA, North American Victorian Studies Association
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/navsa/
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
http://www.rs4vp.org/vpr.html
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
http://web.uvic.ca/vsawc/