This page has links to various sites that deal with the times in which Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle lived. The Victorian Age still fascinates and makes us wish it really still was 1895.

Royalty, Leaders & People of Note

• The British Monarchy - THE Offical Web Site
• The British Monarchy #2 - Queen Victoria Bio
• Queen Victoria - MS Encarta
• Queen Victoria - brief bio at 'The Victorian Web'
• Queen Victoria Resources - number of pictures
• Queen Victoria's Car - 1869 railroad car
• The Disraeli Project, Queen's University - the correspondence of Benjamin Disraeli
• Victorian Links - people and movements with a connection to William Morris
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852 - architect & designer

  Victorian Studies - General

• Victorian Studies - devoted to the study of English culture of the Victorian period
• Victoria Research Web - offshoot of the VICTORIA discussion list from Indiana University
• Victorian Web Overview - Brown U. great resource
• Information on Victorian England - from 221b Baker Street
• English Victorian Society - by Kelsey Freeman
• Archives of the Victoria discussion list - browse or search old threads

  Victorian Studies - Art

• Victorian Art - Gallery listing, links, pics by Bob Speel
• Victoria and Albert Museum - Largest museum of the decorative arts in the world
• Vintage Art & Photography - on-line catalog of art & vintage stock photography
• Victorian Reflections - The art of painting porcelain
• Arts and Crafts Movement in America - 1895-1920 info & current reproductions
• The National Art Library (UK) - a research and reference library at the Victoria and Albert Museum

  Victorian Studies - Technology & Science

• UK Heritage Railways - a guide to all UK heritage railways
• Coins of Victorian Engand - good article from Studium magazine
• Victorian coinage - Pounds, shillings, and pence oh my!
• Victorian Census Project - source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-19th century
• Great Britain Historical GIS Project - mapping tool to historians & historical geographers
• Database of Irish Historical Statistics - a large corpus of statistical material
• Canadian Street Railways - extensive data
• Historical Construction Equipment Association - construction, surface mining & dredging equipment
• National Bicycle History Archive of America - identification, cataloging and restoration advice

  Victorian Studies - Fashion

• PEERS Home Page - The Period Events & Entertainments Re-Creation Society, Inc.
• 1897: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - London, UK, the weekend of Nov. 21-23, 1997
• Victoria Cross Awards Prior to WW I - history of the VC up to the start of the WW I
• In Royal Fashion - wedding dresses, coronation robes, informal dresses & more
• The Victorian Fashion Pages - 19th century clothes
• Historic Costume Research - from ancient Greece to the 1900's
• A Victorian Elegance - dedicated to vintage costume jewelry, clothing and accessories
• Fall Creek Suttlery - one of the largest Civil War Reenacting Suppliers
• The Costume Page - library of 2000+ costume and costuming-related links
• The Costume Site - Sources for Historical, Science Fiction & Fantasy Costumers

  Victorian Studies - Daily Life

• The Old House Attic Victorian Registry - Victorian links
• Victoriana: Resources for Victorian Living - Shops, info, graphics
• A 19th C. Woman's Place - life 100yrs ago
• American Victorian - Victorian designs
• The Cariboo Sentinel Online - paper published in Barkerville between 1865-1875
• Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England - 'Readings in European History Since 1814'
• Godey's Lady's Book - one of the most popular lady's books of the 19th century
• Godey's Lady's Book - another version
• John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks - help maintaining historic and older buildings
• KINDLING Adventures in Old House Restoration - practical restoration advice
• Memoirs of the California Gold Rush - by Eugene Ring (1827-1912)
• Local History- Toledo - photographs and documents which date back to 1860
• My Scrap Album - Victorian greeting cards,valentines and scraps

  Victorian Studies - Literature & Culture

• Victorian Books of Romance, Mystery and Adventure - Written or set-in Victorian era
• Literary Resources -- Victorian British - by Jack Lynch
• VoS English Literature: Victorian - by Alan Liu, UC
• Victorian Women Writers Project - British women writers of the 19th century
• The Dickens Project - conferences and publications, as well as resource lists
• The Victorian Villa Production Company - Union City, MI
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - all you ever wanted to know about G&S
• University of Washington Theatre History - 19th Century London Stage
• Beautiful Jo Records - from Celtic airs to English country dances to Victorian parlour songs
• British Poetry 1780-1910: Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions - etext at Univ. Virginia
• The 19th Century London Stage: An Exploration - from Univ. Washington
• VicWEB - University of Windsor's Period Pages Project

  Victorian Studies - Misc Sites

• The Victorian Society in America - A certain gracious lady (Philadelphia, PA)
• Victorian Events Calendar - A listing of events, lectures, entertainments and exhibits
• Nancy's Victorian Web Site - Victorian links by Nancy & Larry Marron
• Victorianism - Victorian links
• Duttie's, Just Victorian - wonderful site to visit and follow some great links too
• The Library: Virtual Victoria - lotsa varied links
• Victorian Web Sites - Vast lists! (sporadic, slow response but worth wait)
• Victorian Web Sites - Vast lists! (Alternate. sporadic, slow response)
• Laurie's ~Victoriana~ Place - many links
• ?Victorian Initial Caps - decorative letter blocks (letter H not included) (DNS 9911)
• Making of America - American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

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