DATABASES CONTAINING MULTIPLE TEXTS

Open-Access Text Archives, hundreds of thousands of texts in the public domain, downloadable in multiple forms

Digital Book Index (perhaps the most complete list of e-texts)

British History On-line (Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust)

Survey of London (selected volumes)
Victoria County History of Middlesex
Ordnance Survey Maps

National Archives of the United Kingdom

British Library, Active Paper

Daily News
News of the World
Penny Illustrated
Manchester Guardian
Weekly Dispatch

Hearth Home Economic Archive (Cornell)

Internet Library of Early Journals

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-63)
The Builder (1843-52)
Notes and Queries (1849-69)

LSE Library Railway Pamphlets (primary source pamphlets)

London Genealogy (a mix of primary source material, from Illustrated London News, The Globe, etc.)

The Penny Magazine on-line (1832-35)

Tufts Digital Library, Edwin C. Bolles Collection (searchable; a partial list below)

Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London (4 volumes)
Dore/Jerrold, London: A Pilgrimage
Greenwood, Unsentimental Journey, or the Byways of the Modern Babylon
Hare, Walks in London
Hollingshead, Ragged London in 1861 (2 volumes)
Hill, Homes of the London Poor
Hunt, The Old Court Suburb
Knight, London (6 volumes)
Loftie, A History of London (2 volumes)
London Past and Present (3 volumes)
Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (4 volumes)
Mitton, The Scenery of London
Sims, How the Poor Live
Tallis, Tallis's Street Views
Thornbury, Old and New London (6 volumes)
Tuer, Old London Street Cries

Victorian Dictionary

Victorian Times Digitalisation Project, 1837-1901

CONCORDANCES

Dickens Search Engine (Victorian Dictionary site)

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Text (collection of public domain documents from English and American literature, with concordances)

The On-Line Books Page, books by Charles Dickens

University of Adelaide Library E-Texts, books by Charles Dickens

BY AND ABOUT DICKENS

All the Year Round, Dickens's contributions

Speeches, Literary and Social

John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74)

George Dolby, Charles Dickens as I Knew Him: the Story of the Reading Tours (1887)

Mamie Dickens, My Father as I Recall Him (1897)

Henry Dickens, Memories of My Father (1929)

Illustrations, from a selection of Dickens's novels

James T. Lightwood, Charles Dickens and Music (1912)

THE ANNUAL REGISTER

Annual Register, 1832
Annual Register, 1836
Annual Register, 1840
Annual Register, 1844
Annual Register, 1851
Annual Register, 1852
Annual Register, 1856
Annual Register, 1866

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY

Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 1 (1837)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 5 (1839)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 9 (1841)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 10 (1841)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 15 (1844)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 22 (1847)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 23 (1848)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 28 (1850)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 29 (1851)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 33 (1853)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 36 (1854)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 46 (1859)
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 62 (1867)

HOUSEHOLD WORDS

Household Words, vol. 2
Household Words, vol. 3
Household Words, vol. 4
Household Words, vol. 5
Household Words, vol. 6
Household Words, vol. 7
Household Words, vol. 8
Household Words, vol. 10
Household Words, vol. 11
Household Words, vol. 12
Household Words, vol. 13
Household Words, vol. 14
Household Words, vol. 15
Household Words, vol. 16
Household Words, vol. 17
Household Words, vol. 18

PUNCH

Punch, vol. 18 (1850)
Punch, vol. 26 (1854)
Punch, vol. 58 (1870)
Punch, vol. 60 (1871)
Punch, vol. 66 (1874)
Punch, vol. 76 (1879)

THE PENNY CYCLOPAEDIA

The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 14, LIMONIA-MASSACHUSETTS (1839)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 15, MASSAG-MURIDAE (1839)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 16, MURILLO-ORGAN (1840)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 17, ORGAN-PERTINAX (1840)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 18, PERU-PRIMATES (1840)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 20, RICHARDSON-SCANDER (1840)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 24, TAI-WAI-TITLARKS (1842)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 25, TITLES OF HONOUR-UNGULA (1843)
The Penny Cyclopaedia, Vol. 27, WALES-ZYGO (1843)

THE LONDON ENCYCLOPEDIA (1839)

The London Encyclopedia, AM-ARS, vol. 2 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, ARS-BEL, vol. 3 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, CAF-CLE, vol. 5 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, CUS-ELA, vol. 7 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, F-GAR, vol. 9 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, GAS-HAL, vol. 10 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, MED-MIT, vol. 14 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, MIT-NOX, vol. 15 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, PER-POS, vol. 17 (1839)
The London Encyclopedia, POT-ROM, vol. 18 (1839)

THE ENGLISH CYCLOPAEDIA (1866-70) (ed. Charles Knight)

The English Cyclopaedia, vol. 1
The English Cyclopaedia, vol. 2
The English Cyclopaedia, vol. 5
The English Cyclopaedia, vol. 6
The English Cyclopaedia, vol. 8
The English Cyclopaedia, supplement

SINGLE TEXTS

General

Chambers's Books of Days (1879)

Dictionary of Dates, Joseph Hayden (1845)

Hone's Every-Day Book (1825-26)

Church

The Book of Church Law (1876)

Coaches and Carriages

English Pleasure Carriages, William Bridges Adams (1837)

The Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, vol. 1, Charles G. Harper (1903)

The Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, vol. 2, Charles G. Harper (1903)

Domestic

The Common Things of Everyday Life, Anne Bowman (1857)

Domestic Duties, Mrs. William Parkes (1829)

An Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy, Thomas Webster (1845)

England and the English, Bulwer Lytton (1836)

The Family Monitor, a Help to Domestic Happiness, John Angell James ( 1828)

The Gentlemen's House, Robert Kerr (1865)

Godey's Lady's Book (1850)

Habits of Good Society (1869)

Hints for the Table, John Timbs (1859)

Illustrated London Cookery Book (1852)

LeL's "Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

The Young Ladies Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits (1829)

Government

The Electorate and the Legislature (1881) , Spencer Walpole

How We Are Governed: A Handbook of the Constitution of . . . the British Empire (1889), Albany de Fonblanque

On Parliamentary Government in England; its . . . Practical Operation (1869) (vol. 1), Alpheus Todd

On Parliamentary Government in England; its . . . Practical Operation (1869) (vol. 2), Alpheus Todd

A Primer of the English Constitution and Government (1873), Sheldon Amos

The Practice and Privileges of the Two Houses of Parliment: With an Appendix of Forms (1840), Alpheus Todd

Health

Buchan's Domestic Medicine (1785)

On the Diseases of Women: Including those of Pregnancy and Childbed (1857), Fleetwood Churchill

Plain Observations on the Management of Children, During the First Month (1828)

Hints to Mothers for the Management of Health during the Period of Pregnancy, and in the Lying-In Room, 8th ed. (1853), Thomas Bull

Maternal Management of Children, Thomas Bull (1853)

Modern Domestic Medicine, Thomas John Graham (1827)

A Treatise on the Diseases of Children: with Directions for the Management of Infants, Michael Underwood and Marshall Hall (1835)

History of England

A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Sir Spencer Walpole, vol. 1 (1878)

Social England under the Regency (1890), vol. 1, John Ashton

Social England under the Regency (1890), vol. 2, John Ashton

Language and Words

Dictionary of Manufactures, Mining, Machinery, and the Industrial Arts, George Dodd (1869)

A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1835), John Ramsey M'Culloch

A Dictionary of Sports, Harry Harewood (1835) ("Racing, Shooting, Punting, Fishing, Hawking, Archery, etc.")

Grose's Classical Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, rev. and corrected by Pierce Egan (1823)

The Sailor's Word-Book, W. H. Smyth (1867)

Slang Dictionary, James Camden Hotten (1865)

Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, Jon Bee (1823)

Terms and Language of Trade and Commerce (1841)

London

The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London

Dickens's Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens, Jr. (1879)

Leigh's Picture of London (1819)

Clubs of London, 2 vols. (1828)

Handbook to the Environs of London (pt. 1), James Thorne (1876)

Handbook to the Environs of London (pt. 2), James Thorne (1876)

Lombard Street (Walter Bagehot) (1873)

London: What To See and How to See It (1851)

The London Guide, and Stranger's Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

London In All Its Glory (Henry Green Clark) (1851)

Old London Street Cries (Andrew White Tuer) (1885)

Pictorial Handbook of London, John Weale (1854)

Ragged London in 1861, John Hollingshead (1861)

Inns and Taverns of Old London (Henry C. Shelley) (1909)

Railway

Railway Economy, Dionysius Lardner (1850)

Rides on Railways, Samuel Sidney (1851)

Railways, Steamers and Telegraphs: A Glance at Their Recent Progress and Present State, George Dodd (1867)

Roads and Rails and Their Sequences, William Bridges Adams (1862)

The Varieties of Permanent Way, William Bridges Adams (1857)

Reference

Book of English Trades (1818)

Bradshaw's Illustration Handbook in to France (1856)

Commentaries on the Laws of England, vols. 1 and 2, Blackstone (1860)

Days at the Factories. Series 1. London. George Dodd (1843)

A Descriptive Road-Book of France, Southern France (1829)

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 1, Sir George Grove (1880)

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 3, Sir George Grove (1883)

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 4, Sir George Grove (1889)

England and Wales Delineated, vol. 5, Thomas Dugdale

England and Wales Delineated, vol. 5 (con't), Thomas Dugdale

English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Francis James Child (1882-98)

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, vol. 1, John Timbs (1866)

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, vol. 2, John Timbs (1866)

A General Directory to All the Counties . . . in England (1825)

The History of Signboards, Jacob Larwood (1866)

The London General Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary (vol. 3) (1825)

Ocean Shipping, Erich Zimmerman (1922)

The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs, T. Sharper Knowlson (1910)

The Penny Cyclopedia (1830s-40s; information on English towns)

Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt (2nd ed., 1903)

Prostitution, William Acton (1857)

Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, vol. 1, Henry Downes Miles (1906)

Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, vol. 2, Henry Downes Miles (1906)

Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, vol. 3, Henry Downes Miles (1906)

A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties (4 vols.), ed., Samuel Lewis (1848)

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland (1831)

Travels in Europe, Mariana Starke (1836)

The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, vol. 1, Edward J. Wood (1869)

The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, vol. 2, Edward J. Wood (1869)

Miscellaneous Works

Arabian Nights (multiple etexts from the nineteenth century)

Self-Help (Samuel Smiles)

MAPS

Motco Maps of London (including Stanford's Map of 1862)

Greenwood's Map of London, 1827

London Maps Collection (27 historical maps, from the Bolles Collection, Tufts)

Victorian Research Web

The Victorian Census Project

The Crystal Palace

The Current Value of Old Money

History of the United Kingdom, Primary Documents

The Workhouse

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London (still in the early stages)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Royal Historical Society Bibliography

SECONDARY SOURCES

Journal of the History of Ideas

Index to Ships in Books