The Great Exhibition of 1851. This site from Victorian Station includes the background to the exhibition and pictures of some of the exhibits.

Free graphics (for personal use), Victorian romantic birds, flowers etc.,which are intended to be used to make home pages for Web Sites but could be used in other ways.

An introduction to the Brunel Collection which is a large collection of original documents concerning the life and work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

A floor plan of the Dickens House Museum acts as an index to the various rooms in the house.

The Fox Talbot Museum of Photography commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot who invented the positive/negative process and he is known as The Father of Modern Photography.

An online collection of 19th Century articles, illustrations, and Victorian fashions taken directly from the 19th Century American fashion magazine, Harper's Bazar. (C.1867-1900). Most have not been published since their original printing over 100 years ago.

A family tree showing the Kings and Queens of England and their families since Tudor times.

In 1832 Michael Sadler was chairman of a parliamentary investigation into the conditions in the textile factories. This site reprints a few selected testimonies from those workers who gave evidence. The text describes the lives of ordinary workers, including women and children, and gives a powerful impression of their working lives.

A selection of portraits of historical figures from the Perry-Casta–eda Library, University of Texas at Austin. Among many others, this site includes portraits of many famous Victorian people.

The text of historical articles giving a fascinating background to the development of early railways. The site includes notes on the lives of George and Robert Stevenson, flyers from the Stockton and Darlington Railway, some images and other material.

The Rainhill Trials were held in 1829 to find a locomotive to run on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The prize which was won by Stephenson's Rocket was £500.

This site contains reports on the trails from the weekly Mechanics Magazine which describe the five engines which competed - with diagrams of three of them.

Letters from Florence Nightingale to various people from 1854 to 1897. Each page has picture of the original letter and a transcript beside it.

The words to this song are derived from a transcript of testimony gathered by the Ashley Mines Committee from 17-yr-old Patience Kershaw in 1842 which you can read on the Victorian Web site.

These (copyrighted) images are available on the World Wide Web on the pages of The Stock Solution - a stock photo agency. However, you may download and print them out for non-commercial purposes.

This set is dedicated to Mother's Day.

The Victorian Web is a massive collection of resources to support the study of the Victorians. It is written with undergraduates in mind, and much of the original source materials might be difficult for some younger readers. However it makes a wonderful source of materials for teachers planning a Victorians topic.