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Jack Wolcott: Vide Occasions: Theatre History on the Web
This comprehensive site offers links to the history of British theatre including the Classics, Medieval and Renaissance, Elizabethan, 17th, 18th, 19th Century, Contemporary, and Non-Western theatre. It also provides links to theatre...
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West Chester University: Egypt & Europe in the 19th Century
A scholarly article that examines the history of Egypt during the period of imperialism. The author provides a good explanation as to why Egypt fell under the British sphere of influence by the late 19th century.
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Introduction
This is an introduction to a Restoration and Eighteenth Century, which ranges from the Restoration of King Charles II to the turn of the 19th century. The essential questions for the unit focuses on how the events of the period...
British Library
British Library: Bronte's Jane Eyre: The Figure of Bertha Mason
This activity will encourage students to explore the character of Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's first wife, through the lens of medical history. They will compare Charlotte Bronte's presentation of the character with the perspectives...
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th Century
The Victorian Web provides a report to British Parliament submitted in 1833 by a medical observer on how work in textile factories affected the physical health of the laborers. Also includes essays from a factory owner's point of view...
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: British Authors on the Web
An excellent and detailed site which lists over 750 British authors. The site provides links to more information about each author and is categorized by alphabet and time period. Some links may no longer work in the archived URL.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Eighteenth Century Chronology
Find out more about eighteenth-century literature through this comprehensive chronology. This site is set up to take you from 1660 through to 1800.
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Stephen Luscombe: British Empire: Nineteenth Century Timeline
A timeline of the British Empire during the nineteenth century. Includes events related to empire building, to Britain itself, and to the world, as well as important advances in art and in science.
Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)
Japanese Shipwrecks in British Columbia Myths & Facts
The Royal British Columbia Museum looks at the historical possibility of cultural exchanges between the Japanese and the First Nations Peoples in Canada's Northwest. The site also looks at the validity of stories of shipwrecks in the...
BBC
Bbc History: History Trails: Victorian Britain: Ideals of Womanhood
The author explores how the status and place of women in Victorian England changed over the course of the 19th century. Women became much more active in service and mission type work. In addition, early feminism has its roots in this...
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The Map as History: Europe's Colonial Expanision 1820 1939
European countries began exploring and seeking to dominate the rest of the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, thanks to their ability to control sea routes and to the discovery of the American continent. In the 19th century,...
BBC
Bbc History: History Trails: Victorian Britain: Britain as Workshop of the World
Articles about the era of industrialization, new products and new transportation are coupled with cartoons and an explanation on how to use this primary source. An activity and quiz are also available from the sidebar.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Thomas Love Peacock: The Growth of the Novel
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry explains Peacock's role in the rise of gothic fiction in the early 19th century Romantic era.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Literary Resources: Romantic Period
Search this comprehensive site for links to the authors and the writings of the Romantic Period. Don't miss out on this amazing collection of links. As Professor Jack Lynch, who created the list, has noted, these pages are outdated and...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Joseph John Thomson
Joseph John Thomson, better known as J. J. Thomson, was a British physicist who first theorized and offered experimental evidence that the atom was a divisible entity rather than the basic unit of matter, as was widely believed at the...