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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
19th Century Britain
See Main Page for a guide
to all contents of all sections.
Contents
Britain
- WEB British History Online
British History Online is a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. BHO also provides access to 40,000 images and 10,000 tiles of historic maps of the British Isles.
- WEB The
Victorian Web [Internet Archive backup here]
Texts and information about mid and late 19th century England.
- Radicalism
- Liberal Reformism
- The State
- The Professions
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Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Bad Lawyers or Good
, excerpt. 1876 [At
Warwick] [Internet Archive version here]
A consideration of the need for the reform of legal education and the legal profession in
England and Wales.
- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): A New Standard of Value, The Economist, November 20, 1875 [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive]
- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877): Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive]
A classic analysis of the British banking system which was the basis for reform for many
other European banking systems.
- The Poor
- Men, Women, and Sex
- Social Class
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Ireland
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Victorian Sensibility
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Victorian Literature
- WEB The Victorians [At BritLitWki] [Internet Archive version here]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- WEB 19th Century British and Irish Authors [At Victorian Studies][Internet Archive version here]
Splendid online guide to texts and sites on 19th century authors
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WEB Victorian Women Writers Project Library [Internet Archive back up here]
The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) began in 1995 at Indiana University and is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare.
- WEB The Gaskell Page [At Victorian Studies][Internet Archive version here]
A Comprehensive web page dedicated to the works of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65). It
includes ALL of Mrs. Gaskell's writings as etexts, as well as a lot of ancillary material
about 19th-century England.
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NOTES:
The Internet Modern Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was
9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. The Internet
Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at
the Fordham University Center
for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the
Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in
providing web space and server support for the project. The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University. Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not
the institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action.
© Site Concept and Design: Paul Halsall created 26 Jan 1996: latest revision 5 June 2023 [CV]
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