David Peal, Tutor and Coach
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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)
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  • About
  • Resources
    • Study skills
    • The news & media literacy
    • History resources
    • Geography resources
    • Podcasts on history and the news
  • ushistory