An Internet search will call up many hits on the Great Exhibition. However, a great number of the sites are only indirectly relevant to the Exhibition. They address the Exhibition as an example of early marketing conferences, or in the context of interesting examples of particular genres of artistic work. These sites are some of the more useful to the historian.

http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/other/grtexhib.htm

This is a very detailed site with lots of attractive visuals, many of which can be enlarged. The site has the advantage over most of the others of being specifically about the Exhibition itself. Many other sites are about pottery, art, architecture, etc. and simply feature the Exhibition.

http://www.cyberstation.net/hf/cp/crystal.html

A wonderful but detailed site, inviting students to explore the thinking behind the Exhibition and the individuals who worked so hard to make it a success.

http://piranesi.anu.edu.au/midjpg2/greatexhib.midjpg/bytype/index.html

This is the sort of resource that the Internet does best. Students can sample the delights of the exhibition at a glance by looking at thumbnail sketches of some of the objects there. If they like the look of anything, they click the thumbnail and it enlarges full screen.

http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/projects/1851.html

This is a very detailed site, but is pitched at a reasonable level. Motivated Y9 students could tackle this in the context of an investigation into the Great Exhibition. Strong focus on visual imagery, but not as many visuals to download as one might hope for.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/1851/1851ov.html

This site is still under construction, but is part of the highly respected Victorian Web network of resources. It is organised into handy sections on different aspects of the Exhibition, namely: Responses; Literary Relations; Pictorial Representations; Science and Technology; Political Contexts; Religious Contexts and Reactions.