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Web Resources
Australian Newspapers, Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954
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)
Reviewed by Brian Maidment, ‘REVIEWS OF DIGITISED SCHOLARLY RESOURCES’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 13: (2008), pp. 108 — 124
The Dictionary of Victorian London
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online (darwin-online)
Reviewed by Jonathan Smith, ‘REVIEWS OF DIGITISED SCHOLARLY RESOURCES’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 13: (2008), pp. 108 — 124
Contemporary and Historical Census Collections (CHCC)
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 Life (relating to 75,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land)
Gladcat is an online catalogue of Gladstone’s reading and library, housed at St Deiniols
Great Britain Historical Database Online
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)
See Alexis Weedon, ‘Digital Resources and Quantitative Research’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Historical GIS Research Network
See Alexis Weedon, ‘Digital Resources and Quantitative Research’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website
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
Lucerna. The world’s largest dedicated database of magic lantern slide records, including over 43,000 nineteenth- and twentieth-century images, managed by an independent Community Interest Company and hosted by the University of Exeter, UK.
Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867
See Alexis Weedon, ‘Digital Resources and Quantitative Research’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (2010)
Nines (Nineteenth-Century Scholarship on Line)
See Dana Wheeles, ‘Redesigning NINES’, Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 15, Issue 1 April 2010 , pages 145 – 149
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
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
The Old Bailey Online: Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
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
Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Age of Victoria
The Reading Experience Database (RED), 1450–1945
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
Voluntary Action History Society
General Nineteenth Century Web Resources
Victoria Research Web (an indispensable research guide)
General Literary Web Resources
Minor Victorian Poets and Authors
The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Periodical Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1846-1900
Victorian Literary Studies Archive
Victorian Women Writers Project
The Oscholars (a group of journals and webpages devoted to exploring the literature and arts of the fin-de-siècle)
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.
Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society
The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Robert Louis Stevenson Website
The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website
The Charlotte Mary Yonge Fellowship
Associations
AVSA, Australian Victorian Studies Association
BAVS, British Association for Victorian Studies
BWWA, British Women Writers Association
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
NAVSA, North American Victorian Studies Association
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals