Victorian era resource post

[lailah_tov]

Please share your favorite historical research resources about any part of the Victorian era! Clothing, politics, sexuality, class, the arts, whatever you're excited about and excited to share.

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Gender and sexuality

[lailah_tov]

A two-part post on Sherlock Holmes and Victorian (homo)sexuality:

https://groovymutant.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/sherlock-holmes-and-victorian-homosexuality-part-1/

https://groovymutant.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/sherlock-holmes-and-victorian-homosexuality-part-2/

[donutsweeper]

Clothing related links (some of these include Regency period too)
Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir (sfw 1 min film of a woman undressing from 1896, giving a good idea of the various layers women used to have to wear)
"A Sh*tty Guide to Victorian Underwear" a tumblr infographic/tutorial (women's undergarments)
The Symington Fashion Collection 130 images of extant corsets and other historical women's undergarments (The Leicestershire County Council also has over 100 corset patterns here)
A Victorian Fancy Dress Ball: Popular Costumes of the Late 19th Century
Timeline of Women's Fashion - infographic, 1794-1970
19th Century Fashion Infographics of men's and women's dress, undergarments, hats, etc
Digital Collections of Extant Costumes - a directory listing online collections of extant (ie surviving) historical costume, generally in museums (in numerous different countries covered lots of different eras.)
The Cut of Men's Clothes, 1600-1900 by Norah Waugh (pdf)

youtube channel that might be of interest: English Heritage - The Victorian Way by Audley End House and Gardens, various videos on how to prepare food on an estate in the Victorian Era as well as other things like how laundry was dealt with.

Random things and link collections:
Huge list of links for writing Victorian England/ACD Holmes fic
Society for Photographing Relics of Old London (112 photographs taken of "Old" London between 1875-1886)
"How to Roleplay in the Victorian Era" - tumblr post with information on society, culture, dress and accent
Victorian Era Mini-Masterpost focusing on links providing information on multicultural (race and religion) aspects of Victorian London
Domestic Medicine and Surgery in Victorian England (the treating of various injuries and wounds, from Cassells Household Guide published 1880
Collection of links on Victorian England
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management - published in 1861, a guide to all aspects of running a Victorian household, including recipes, dealing with servants, general health and more. (gutenberg's download here
Everyday life in 19th century Britain also a map of Dickens' London (wayback machine link)
Druggist's Manual, published 1826, "with Latin and English synonyms, a German, French, and Spanish catalogue of drugs, tables of specific gravities etc (archive.org scanned book)

Supernatural, misc.

[lailah_tov]

Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events, a collection of funny and odd things that happened in Yorkshire (as related to the author) through the mid to late 1800s. Includes ghost stories as well as things like the story of a man who, rejected by his would-be wife's father, didn't leave his bedroom for the next 50 years.

1851 guide to the parks and gardens of London
1904 "Microcosm of London" describing various significant buildings and the people who can be found there, with many illustrations

Various Victorian era research pieces from History Today

Oxford Reference timeline of significant events in Britain 1750–1900

Rictor Norton's exhaustive list of information on homosexuality in 19th-century England
The Lesbian Historic Motif Project 19th-century page