some resources to get you started
Image Above: “Gertrude in the Wilderness” by George du Maurier. Wood-engraving by Joseph Swain. Charles Warren Adams’s The Notting Hill Mystery, in Once a Week 7 (29 November 1862): 617. Scanned by Simon Cooke. Victorian Web.
Research Resources
- Victorian Web – A comprehensive resource created by George Landow at Brown University that contains thousands of articles on Victorian literature and culture: http://www.victorianweb.org
- British Library: Victorian Britain – “historical sources and articles written by experts that reveal the everyday reality of living in Victorian Britain.” There’s a lot of great visual content on here, including advertisements and photographs. For inspiration, take a look at the articles section (written by Liza Picard). https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain
- British Library: Discovering Literature (Romantics and Victorians). A wide range of articles and collection items (including great visual content) related to both the Romantics and the Victorians. Browse the “themes” for inspiration. https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians
- BRANCH – a “searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925.” Offers a wealth of short articles by scholars on noteworthy events on a timeline (you can also search by topic by clicking on “topic clusters”). http://www.branchcollective.org
- The Victorian Dictionary: Exploring Victorian London – A rather eclectic web dictionary created by Lee Jackson, who compiles excerpts from books, articles, images, and pamphlets about Victorian London. You might want to consult this site, but if you use any of the texts quoted make sure you find the originals. http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm
- Old Bailey Online – A searchable edition of almost 200,000 criminal trials held in London’s central criminal court between 1674 and 1913. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
- Books:
- Victorian Things by Asa Briggs
- What the Victorians Did for Us by Adam Hart-Davis
Creation Resources
- Wix.com: Free website builder
- WordPress.com: Free website/blog builder
- Weebly: Free website builder
- Tumblr: Free website/blog builder
- Timeline: Create a digital story using a timeline
- Thinglink: Add text, image, web links, video, and audio to images
- Storyform: Create digital stories (offers a free template)
- YouTube: Free to post your own movies (consider using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker, for instance)
- Audacity: Free digital audio editing program that allows you to record and edit sounds, music, and narration.
- Adobe Spark – An app that allows you to create digital story websites.