The Victorian Web (www.victorianweb.org) provides excellent study support for all aspects of nineteenth-century British history, as well as supplementary pieces on the empire and key international events such as the Chinese Opium Wars and the Wars of Italian Unification. Founded by US history professor George Landow in 1987, the Victorian Web holds over 77,000 articles and images (as of May 2014).
The site contains primary sources and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) on Victorian political, social and gender history, economics, philosophy, literature, science, technology, art and culture. There are introductory articles on topics such as the Corn Laws and women’s suffrage as well as timelines, tables of key pieces of legislation and bibliographies. Longer essays discuss significant topics, for instance the 1832 Reform Act or the development of leisure activities. As with other crowd-sourced sites, anyone may add content with the consent of the editors and so essays often present differing points of view on a particular topic.
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