• Race, Class, and Gender Issues

    • Queen Victoria

    • Victorian Women's Occupations: An Overview

    • Caroline Norton  (1808-1877): English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1854

    • Caroline Norton  (1808-1877): A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855

    • Race and Class Overview
    • Social Class
    • Samuel Smiles: Self Help, 1882
    • The Gentleman
    • Cotton versus Silk: Social Class and Mechanization
    • Newman on the Gentleman
    • Etiquette
    • John Stuart Mill (1806-73): The Subjection of Women
    • To taste of Bacchus' blessings now and then: a sampling of Victorian Toasts and Sentiments
    • Anti-Irish Prejudice
    • Sex, Scandal, and the Novel

    • Women's History

     

  • Education

    • Public Schools

    • A Critical View of British Public Schools

    • Ragged Schools

    • State Involvement in Public Education before the 1870 Education Act

    • Science and Mathematics in Victorian Education: A Bibliography

    • The Anti-Technological Bias of Victorian Education and Britain's Economic Decline

 

  • Sanitation and the Environment

    • The Victorian Environment: An Overview

    • How Filthy Was London?
    • Health and Hygiene
    • From Inconvenience to Pollution -- Redefining Sewage in The Victorian Age
    • Sanitation and Its absence
    • Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions

 

  • Medicine and medical care

    • Adulteration and contamination of food

    • Punch on the adulteration of food

    • Poisoned Wallpaper

    • Medical care

    • Medical Developments

    • Lister and Antisepsis

    • Nineteenth-Century British Medicine: Suggested Reading