Victorian era resource post

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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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Supernatural, misc.

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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