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Child Labour in the 19th Century - Categories include: Factory Reformers, Supporters of Child Labour, Life in the Factory, The Factory Workers, Tactics and Issues, and The Factory Acts
The Victorians: Resources for Schools - Resources for school projects on the Victorian era. Music, images of the Queen, the phonograph, Florence Nightingale and Education.
The Peterloo Massacre - A detailed analysis of the events of St Peter's Field, Manchester on the 16th August, 1819. The website includes eyewitness accounts and biographical details of 25 people who saw what happened that day.
The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 - Thirty-five biographies of women who played a prominent role in the struggle for equality. Includes written primary sources produced by, or about, them.
Victorian Station - Dedicated to Victorian enthusiasts: a brief history and photos of the Victorian Era including Queen Victoria, Cameos and Victorian Architecture
Victorian Census Project - Aims to computerise a number of source documents and related materials relating to Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.
Virtual Victorian House Tour - Take a virtual tour of an imaginery Victorian era home, and learn all about lifestyles of the era, customs and interests. (Factual information set within a fictional tour. Includes many pictures)
Aspects of the Victorian book - Detail-rich site that provides insight into the production and publishing of books in Britain during the nineteenth century.
Penny Magazine Online - Text from selected issues of The Penny Magazine, which was published every Saturday for a working class readership
Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals - Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums.
Georgian Index - A survey of British and European culture at the heigth of the Georgian Era; including: George IV, Princess Charlotte, The Crown Jewels of France and England, Napoleon's Carriage, the evolution of boxing, the tea table, period card games, the evolution of the thoroughbred, period fly-fishing, a growing selection of London addresses.
Victoria Research Web - Provides research resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain.
Smugglers' Britain - British smuggling in the 18th and 19th centuries. Directions to smugglers' pubs, coves, caves and tunnels, together with the full, indexed text of a book on smuggling.
Dr. William Palmer - Information about Dr.William Palmer, the "Rugeley Poisoner", the "Prince of Poisoners", a nineteenth century Staffordshire character, his life, his crimes, his trial and public hanging.
Virtual Victorians - Victorian artefacts, objects, news, photographs, presented in an innovative way for schools, parents and those interested in the Victorian era.
The British Way: Imperialism - Explores how the British nation acquired and governed an empire greater in size than any in history and how the Victorians adapted to the idea of imperialism.
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Nineteenth Century My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Nineteenth Century I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Nineteenth Century "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Nineteenth Century Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Nineteenth Century Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Nineteenth Century Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Nineteenth Century Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nineteenth Century "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Nineteenth Century "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Nineteenth Century "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Nineteenth Century "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Nineteenth Century Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Nineteenth Century "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Nineteenth Century He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Nineteenth Century Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Nineteenth Century If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Nineteenth Century I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Nineteenth Century Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Nineteenth Century Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nineteenth Century "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover Nineteenth Century .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Nineteenth Century
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