http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/dickens_timeline_text.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensbio2.html

http://www.biography.com/people/charles-dickens-9274087 (watch the first 11 minutes only…up to the first commercial break)

http://www.kidsfreesouls.com/charles.htm

http://www.fathom.com/course/21701768/session1.html

Cities

http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html

http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london.html (read the first section and In The Streets)

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read Cities in the 19^th century)

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html (read From Country to Town, Housing, Pollution, Improvements, Mills, Factories and Brick Works, Chimney Sweeps, Street Children)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_08.shtml (this article is 8 sections long—click on “next page” at bottom, but it has a lot of good information to help you)

http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/overview/towns/

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Late_Victorian_Age.htm (read Urbanization)

http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html

Industrial Revolution

http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm (read paragraph titled Science and progress)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lISqgTwzhRI&feature=fvst (watch twice…the first time read the captions, the second time look at the pictures)

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec122/britir.htm

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/industry.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-ToV5heso

http://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/causes.html

Social Class

http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm (read paragraph titled Social Class)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/caring/default.htm (NOTE: The great exhibition was an opportunity for people to ride the railroad for a reduced rate.  It only happened for 5 ½ months, but it was an opportunity for some to visit places they have never been in England and (possibly) ride a train for the first time.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/rich_and_poor_families/ (read all 4 Choose A Section articles as well as the Fun Facts)

http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london.html (read The Poor)

http://charlesdickenspage.com/carol.html (read Cooking the Cratchett’s Christmas Goose)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eLoPD700g (Victorian Maids)

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html (read Street Children, Country Children)

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (Read Poverty in the 19^th Century)

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (Read 19th Century Society)

Money

http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm (read paragraph titled Money)

http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages.html

http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages2.html

Diseases

http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm (read paragraph titled diseases)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/healthy/default.htm

http://charlesdickenspage.com/christmas.html

http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london.html (read Sanitation and Disease)

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read Health and Medicine in the 19^th Century)

http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/sochist1.htm (Read Health)

Housing

http://www.victorianstation.com/bed.htm

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html (read From Town to Country and Housing)

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read 19th Century Homes)

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/house_tour/ourhouse.htm

http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/poverty.html

Women and Men

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (Read 19th Century Society)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/divided/default.htm  (NOTE: The great exhibition was an opportunity for people to ride the railroad for a reduced rate.  It only happened for 5 ½ months, but it was an opportunity for some to visit places they have never been in England and (possibly) ride a train for the first time.)

http://crayzray.tripod.com/clpage/writtings/other/victorian_women.htm

Fashion

http://www.victorianstation.com/fashionbicycle.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ar3/townevictorian/victorianfashion.html

http://www.victorianstation.com/fashionbicycle.htm

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read 19th Century Clothes)

Education

http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm (read paragraph titled Education)

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/schoolday.htm

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/classtools.htm

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/lessons.htm (click on the books at the bottom of the page as well to see what their textbooks looked like)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/children_at_school/ (read through the choose a section and the fun facts)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_schools/  (read through choose a section and fun facts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6_gESTFVk&feature=related

(Start at 2:12)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAXv0C5iyK0&NR=1

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read Education in the 19^th Century)

http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/sochist1.htm (read Education)

The Workhouse

http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/workhouse.html

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/caring/default.htm (click on the documents on the sides of the screen as well, click on “full transcript” to read each document)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blyYxpNbgeU&feature=related

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/victorians/workhouses.html

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/tour/

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/life/entry.shtml (on the left side of the screen read all of the links under Workhouse Life tab)

Free time/ Entertainment

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/happy/default.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/toys_and_games/ (read through choose a section and fun facts)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/leisure/

(read through choose a section and fun facts)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/children_at_play/

(read through choose a section and fun facts)

http://www.victorianstation.com/leisurecroquet.htm

http://www.victorianstation.com/leisurewater.htm

http://www.victorianbazaar.com/dancing.html

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read 19th Century Games)

Child Labor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/children_in_coal_mines/

(read through choose a section and fun facts)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_children_at_work/

(read through choose a section and fun facts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6_gESTFVk&feature=related (until 2 min 30 sec)–Chimney Sweep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuJen1vZSmA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=kKcFDUDlRCE

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html (start reading at the section titled Child Labor—through the end of the page)

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read Work in the 19^th Century)

Etiquette

http://www.victorianstation.com/ettiqdine.htm

http://www.centerforhistory.org/pdfdoc/male%20and%20female%20etiqu%208.pdf (please understand that this page applies to both England and the US—and pertained to the upper classes)

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1219053

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agunn/teaching/enl3251/vf/pres/rothman.htm

http://www.victorianstation.com/ettiqstlady.htm

http://victorianstation.com/ettiqstgentle.htm

Dining

http://www.thecooksguide.com/articles/dining-etiquette.html

http://www.localhistories.org/19thcent.html (read 19th Century food)

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#england” (read Victorian Era)

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabella/household// (Note: this is for the middle/upper class–look over the table of contents, find a few “interesting” recipes and “things you are supposed to do” to share)

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabella/household//chapter40.html (look over the menu for an upper class meal)

http://ezinearticles.com/?19th-Century-Food-And-Drink&id=793289

http://www.thecooksguide.com/articles/victorian-kitchen.html

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/house_tour/kitchen.htm

http://metcalf.illinoisstate.edu/library/

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S.I.Day Schedule

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Smithsonian Images

Library of Congress American Memory