New Victorian Resources
Just because it's summer doesn't mean that Victorian academics aren't striving to broaden our knowledge of the Victorian past. In fact, several new websites and databases have been cropping up all over the interwebs, most sponsored by academics and graduate students. Are you embittered by the lack of information on your favorite Victorian author? See the following links (some new, some newly discovered) and become inspired to supply that lack yourself! Future generations of scholars will be in your debt and may even buy you coffee at conferences.
Mathilde Blind's Uncollected Works, supplementing the Victorian Women Writers Project & The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind. Project by Agnes Scott College professor James Diedrick.
Nineteenth Century Business, Labour, Temperance & Trade Periodicals: Journals offered include The British Workman (1855-1921) and The Stationery Trade Review (1881-1913). Project by the BLT Project Team.
Searchable pdfs of all Victorian parliamentary papers are now available online. This is the first time that the 10,000+ documents are together online.
Victorian Jokes Database: Victorian jokes extracted from the British Library's digital archives. A collaborative project between Dr. Bob Nicholson of Edge Hill University & BL Labs. Click this link for the most recently discovered jokes.
Victorian Popular Culture: Collections of Playbills, relics of spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments, and the first moving pictures. Project by Adam Matthew.
Nineteenth Century Studies Association Awards and Prizes: And last but not least....apply for one of these! Money and recognition really helps further those academic essays and Victorian Studies projects you've been pursuing!
