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British
& Commonwealth History - Collections
19th Century
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Resources |
Databases
& Websites
A Vision of Britain
Through Time, 1801-1901 (Great Britain Historical GIS
Project). Includes maps, statistical trends, and historical
descriptions.
Act of Union Virtual
Library: A Digital Resource for the Act of Union of 1800.
A unique collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary
papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800
Act of Union between Ireland and Britain.
An
Gorta Mór: The Great Hunger Archive (Quinnipiac
University).
Bentham
Texts Online (UCL)
British
Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UC Davis). Full-text
database.
The
Carlyle Letters Online. The online version of the Collected
Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, featuring over
10,000 letters to over 600 recipients and providing a unique
perspective on the nineteenth century.
Charles Booth Online Archive. Searchable
resource giving access to archive material from the Booth
collections of the British Library of Political
and Economic Science (London School of Economics and Political
Science) and the University of London Library, which contain
the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour
in London, dating from 1886-1903 and the Booth family papers
from 1799 to 1967.
The Clergy
of the Church of England Database (CCEd). A collaborative
project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
and bringing together scholars from King's College London,
the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of
Reading, whose objective is to create a relational database
documenting the careers of all Church of England clergymen
between 1540 and 1835. The website also provides a range
of supporting materials about the Church and its clergy.
The
Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
Documents
in Law, History and Diplomacy (The Avalon Project, Yale University)
Enhanced British Parliamentary
Papers on Ireland:1801-1922. EPPI involves the electronic
cataloguing and full-text digitisation of some 13,700 British
Parliamentary papers (containing around 600,000 pages) from
the University of Southampton's unique Ford Collection of
Official Publications.
Historical
Directories (University of Leicester). A digital library
of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from
1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively
rare books.
House
of Commons Parliamentary Papers Full-text searchable
sessional papers from 1801-2004.
The
Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library
of Economic Literature, 1450-1850. This full-text, fully
searchable database combines the strengths of the Goldsmiths'
Library of Economic Literature at the University of London
and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard
with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection
in Columbia's Butler Library and from the libraries of Yale
University. Almost 12 million pages present more than 61,000
books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials,
offering a comprehensive witness to the theories, practices,
and consequences of economic and business activity in the
West.
Proceedings of the
Old Bailey, London 1674-1834. A fully searchable online
edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives
of
non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over
100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal
court.
The Victorian Web:
Literature, History, and Culture in the Age of Victoria.
The Workhouse. This
site is dedicated to the workhouse — its buildings,
inmates, staff and administrators, even its poets. Contains
full text of Poor Law Acts, Workhouse rules, and other
resources.
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Periodicals
& Newspapers
Internet
Library of Early Journals. A digital library of 18th and
19th century journals.
Palmer's
Index to The Times (1790-1905) 
Penny
Illustrated Paper (British Library). Search
the complete run of the Penny Illustrated Paper. Published
from
1861 to
1913,
it contains news of everday life set against the panorama
of historical events in Britain and across the Empire.
Penny
Magazine Online (1832-1835). The Penny Magazine, published
every Saturday, was aimed at the working class and was part
of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's program
for liberal reform. It was a source of information on subjects
of general, everyday interest, like tea and coffee, well-known
places in England, animals and birds of Britain, and descriptions
of present-day manufacturing.
Times
(London) Digital Archive(1785-1985)
Victorian
Studies
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Indexes
Nineteenth-Century
Masterfile
Nineteenth-Century
Short Title Catalogue (NSTC). This catalogue aims to index
all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and the
United States of America, all printed works in English wherever
published, and all translations from English, from the beginning
of the 19th century to the end of the First World War. In
addition, the catalogue indexes thousands of periodicals,
directories and other ephemeral publications.
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Maps
Greenwood's
Map of London, 1827
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| Print
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Encyclopedias
& Handbooks
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Chris Williams.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Location: Green Library, Stacks (DA530 .C76 2004)
An
Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832,
Iain McClaman.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Location: Green Library, HASRC and Stacks (DA533.O94 1999)
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914,
Chris Cook.
London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
Location: Green Library, Lane Room: Non-circulating (DA530 .C8 2005)
Encyclopedia of the Victorian World: A Reader's
Companion to the People, Places, Events, and Everyday Life
of the Victorian Era, edited by Melinda Corey
and George Ochoa.
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
Location: Green Library, Stacks (DA550 .E53 1996)
Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Mitchell.
New York: Garland Pub., 1988
Location: Green Library, Information Center and Stacks (DA550.V53
1988)
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Journals
Journal of Victorian Culture
Location: Green Library, latest year of volume in Current
Periodicals; earlier
in
Stacks (DA533
.J68 1996-2005)
Nineteenth-Century Studies
Location: Green Library, Stacks (CB415 .N55 1987-2004)
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Documents
Sanitary
Reform of London: The Working Collection of Sir Joseph Bazalgette
A
collection of maps, engineering designs, Metropolitan Water
Board working papers, legal briefs, and other pamphlets,
documenting the history of London's sanitary evolution during
the latter half of the 19th century. The heart of the collection
is the working library of Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891),
London's chief engineer for the
drainage and embankment systems.
Location: Green Library, Special Collections. For more information
on this collection, please consult the
record on the British and Commonwealth Literary Studies
site.
British
Temperance Collection.
Combining
the archives of reformer William Hoyle
and the Joseph Livesy Library, this collection contains
1400 separately published pamphlets and tracts, 320 books,
as well as newspapers, journals, and conference reports.
Location: Green Library, Special Collections. For more information
on this collection, please consult the
record on the British
and Commonwealth Literary Studies site.
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Bibliographies
Victorian Studies: A Research Guide, Sharon W. Propas.
New York : Garland Pub., 1992.
Location:
Green Library, Information Center: Non-circulating (Z2019
.P76 1992)
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| Microform
Resources |
Documents
Popular Literature in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Britain
A collection of more than 1,500 rare chapbooks, assembled and preserved
by Robert White (1802-74), poet and local historian of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Chapbooks
were the "street literature" of the day, offering news, entertainment,
and sensation through startling and scurrilous accounts, and formed an essential
link between the oral tradition and the popular press of the latter 19th century.
A printed guide, Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Britain: The Robert White Collection of Chapbooks from the University Library,
Newcastle upon Tyne, lists all titles and reel numbers in the collection.
Location: Green Library, Media-Microtexts (GUIDE PR972.P6 1985; MFILM N.S. 7636)
For more information, please consult the
record on the British and Commonwealth Literary Studies site.
English
Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320-1832, in the British
Museum
A microfilm edition of the British Museum's remarkable
collection of engravings, which illuminate the opinions and
propaganda of their day with their myths, fantasies and slogans.
Included is the work of Hollar, Hogarth, Gillray, Rowlandson
and Cruikshank, as well as many minor and unknown artists.
To be used in conjunction with the Catalogue of Prints
and Drawings in the British Museum (Art and Architecture
Library, Art Locked Stacks, Level M, NE55.L7A45 v.1-11).
Location: Green Library, Media Microtext Collection (MFILM N.S. 1753)
Women Advising Women
A two-part microfilm collection from the Bodleian
Library, Oxford, of early women's journal, ephemeral publications
and didactic literature. Part one contains early women's
journals, 1700-1832; Part two contains advice books, manuals,
almanacs, and journals from the period 1625 through 1837.
Location: Green Library, Media Microtext Collection (GUIDE PN 5124.W6 W66; MFILM
N.S. 13035).
For more information, please consult the
record on the British and Commonwealth Literary Studies site.
Rare Radical and Labour Periodicals of Great Britain
A collection of over 100 rare 19th-century periodicals
which record the history of working-class life, the response to industrial society,
the formation of the British Labour Party, the rapid growth
of the trade union movement, and the impact of World War I and the General
Strike of 1926. The collection is broken down into two series covering the 19th and early 20th centuries, and represents a large number
of periodicals (Worker's Cry, Trade Unionist, People's Newspaper, Yorkshire Tribune, Red Rag, etc.) and
famous radicals, such as George Bernard Shaw, John Burns,
Keir Hardie, Tom Mann, Annie Besant and George Lansbury. Based
on the The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals,
1790-1970: A Check-List, by Royden Harrison, which
contains information about the dates, publishers, and viewpoints
of the titles in the microfilm collection.
Location: Green Library, Media Microtext Collection
Series One: MFILM N.S. 3011
Series Two: MFILM N.S. 3627
Warwick Guide: Z7164.L1H37 1976
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