Caroline's Miscellany: Postman's Park Thank you so much Caroline for your amazing facts! I am having such an interesting time reading about postman's park. Thank you! …

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research, by Michael Sage, et al Title: Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research…

Main Page - Victorian Literature The Victorian Short Fiction Project is a digital collection of short fiction from the Victorian era, 1837-1901. Since most short fiction during this period was published in periodicals, the texts col…

David Attenborough And The Riddle Of The Victorian Skull | Londonist A skull found in the garden of Sir David Attenborough has been identified as a Victorian murder victim.…

Railway Mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Railway Mania was the speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s. It followed a common pattern: as the price of railway shares increased, more and more money was poured in by speculators, until th…

James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation, excerpt "James A. Secord's Victorian Sensation is one of those books that transforms the way we think about what it would have been like to be alive in the 19th century. Secord traces the genesis, production,…

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London's Treasure Hunt Riots | Paul Slade - Journalist Thomas Wright, a West London barrister, came home from his Lincoln's Inn chambers one evening in January 1904 to find a mob of treasure hunters wrecking his front garden. One of them had already dug d…

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History Today - The Royal Mail: A Passion for the Post : For 400 years the delivery of letters has been integral to British life. As Royal Mail confronts an uncertain future, Susan Whyman charts the Post Office’s development and discovers, through the correspondence of ordinary people, just how much letter writing meant to them.

BibliOdyssey: River Deep Mountain High Comparative Perspectives -Heights of Mountains, Lengths of Rivers[click on any image for the large version. Very large versions also available]Illustration Title: Comparative Heights of the Principal …

David Rumsey Collection: Physical Geography. Edinburgh. Published by A. & C. Black. Engd. by Geo. Aikman.