Victorian Life

• Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations (19th century Britain)
• Victorians, 1850-1901 (National Archives, UK)
• Victorians (British Library)
• British Prime Ministers: Interactive Timelines
• The Victorians (interactive BBC site for school use)
• British Empire: Overview (audio)
• Sceptered Isle (extensive BBC series with information about 90 episodes in history of British Empire)
• Irish Potato Famine
  • Related information about potato famine
• The Origin of Plant Pathology and the Potato Famine (and Other Stories of Plant Diseases)
• Views of the Famine
• John Snow (UCLA site on the man who discovered the cause of cholera)
  
  Irish peasants during the potato famine, 1846-7
• Cholera Online (National Library of Medicine)
• History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraphy
• The Great Transatlantic Cable (PBS Web site devoted to TV special about the cable)
  • Transatlantic Cable (for kids - BBC)
• Victorian Web
• Victorian Britain: An industrial nation? A happy nation? A healthy nation?
• Britain, 1906-1918 (National Archive, UK)
• Prisoner 4099 (a boy imprisoned for stealing rabbits)
• Charles Darwin
  • Origin of Species
  • Darwin and art
• Pine Tree Web (primary sources on early history of scouting around the world)
• Provisioning a Transatlantic Liner (Scientific American article, 1901)
• Transatlantic Crossing (9-part series about the ships that brought immigrants to the US, especially from Norway)