Websites: James II to Victoria
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History World
www.historyworld.net
Good history site with specialist articles, tours through time and lots more.
History on the Net
www.historyonthenet.com
Aimed at pupils and teachers but of interest to anyone fascinated by history. The site has an history dictionary, various timelines, history games and lots of resources. There's a separate section on monarchy.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Good selection of essays and primary sources on the Stuarts, the Enlightenment, 19th-century Britain and much more.
English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk
Protects and promotes England's historic environment. Website contains details of the restoration and upkeep of heritage sites, over 400 of which can be visited. Type any century into the search box to get a listing of properties from those periods.
Early 18th-Century Newspaper Reports
www.infopt.demon.co.uk/grub/vagrants.htm
Newspaper articles from the early 1700s on vagrants, beggars and apprentice boys who frequently died at the gallows in 18th-century Britain. Offers a real insight into the lives of the common people.
Class and Poverty 1790-1885
www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/History/ESH/staff/freeman.html
Go the 'Resources' section and read extracts from Seebohm Rowntree's Poverty: A study of town life (1902), James Greenwood's A Night in the Workhouse (1866), originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette, and Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England
www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture17a.html
Accessible lecture on modern history written by a big history buff and PhD student.
Women's Legal Position in Regency Times
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/regency/legalwomen.html
Gives an account of laws and how they affected women's rights through the 19th century plus a calendar of milestones from 1832 to 1886.
Time Traveller's Guide to Victorian Britain
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide19/index.html
Everything the curious traveller needs to know about the time of Victoria, Dickens and the lady with the lamp.
Victorian Times
www.victoriantimes.org
Comprehensive information on life in Victorian Britain with extracts from contemporary newspapers, Punch magazine cartoons plus much more.
The Victorian Web
www.victorianweb.org
A vast number of links to all things Victorian, including political and social history, gender matters, religion, art, design and literature, written by leading scholars in the field.
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