Victorian Social History: An Overview

Public Health

• Nineteen-Century Public Health Overview
• Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions

Conditions of Life and Labor

• Wages, the Cost of Living, and Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money
• Victorian Occupations -- Life and Labor in the Victorian Period: An Overview
• Victorian Women's Occupations: An Overview
• Child Labor
• The Life of the Industrial Worker in Early Ninteenth-Century England
• Billingsgate (London Fishmarket) at 5 am
• The Lack of Social Security in Victorian England
• Clara Collett, Charles Booth, and Urban Poverty
• Needlewomen: Dressmakers, Milliners, and Slop-workers
• The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers
• Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission
• Life in London (an account from 1871)
• From London Coffee Houses to London Clubs
• The Development of Leisure in Britain, 1700-1850
• The Development of Leisure in Britain after 1850
• Technology and Leisure in Britain after 1850
• Related Site: The Workhouse
• Related Site: Quintin Bradley's Labour History Research "for researchers into British labour history and early socialist movements."
• Related Site: The Journal of John Daniel Thompson (1812-93), sometime manager of the Northumberland Arms, a London pub..

Race, Class, and Gender Issues

• Race and Class Overview
• Social Class
• The Gentleman
• Cotton versus Silk: Social Class and Mechanization
• Newman on the Gentleman
• Etiquette
• To taste of Bacchus' blessings now and then: a sampling of Victorian Toasts and Sentiments
• Anti-Irish Prejudice
• Sex, Scandal, and the Novel
• Women's History

Education

• Public Schools
• A Critical View of British Public Schools
• Ragged Schools
• State Involvement in Public Education before the 1870 Education Act
• Science and Mathematics in Victorian Education: A Bibliography
• The Anti-Technological Bias of Victorian Education and Britain's Economic Decline

London

• London: an Introduction
• London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life (1871)
• London Buildings and Monuments illustrated in the Victorian Web

Miscellaneous

• England as "the European center of suicide"
• The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851
• Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities
• Victorian Culture Shock
• The Metropolitan Police
• Victorian Political History: An Overview

• Economics: An Overview
• Capitalism
• Corn Laws
• Abandonment and Restoration of the Gold Standard

Last updated April 2001