GREAT EXPECTATIONS

CHARLES DICKENS

Welcome to Victorian England. We are joining Charles Dickens in London in the Nineteenth Century. What is life like? Well there is no indoor plumbing and you would most likely be working a 12 to 16 hour shift for a minimal amount of money.

You will investigate your topic, write a 2-3-page report, and give a 2-3 minute speech supported by a visual so that your classmates will learn from what you have learned about the time in which Charles Dickens lived.

There will be a cart in the library with books on the topics. Below you will find some web sites to search first. You are required to have a bibliography that includes two book sources and two Internet sources. A list of the topics and the paper requirements is on the second page of this website.

GENERAL VICTORIAN SITES – GO HERE FIRST!

THE VICTORIAN WEB: http://www.victorianweb.org

http://www.academicinfo.net/histukvictorian.html

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/bbc.htm

http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians

http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/index.html

http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/TITLESPA.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

http://www.victoriana.com/library/direct.html

LIFE OF DICKENS:

http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html

http://www.fidnet.com/%7edap1955/dickens

INDUSTRIAL REVULTION: How did the Industrial Revolution change the lives of people? What types of work were part of the Industrial Revolution? What were the negatives? The positives?

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html

RAILROADS: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm

http://homepages.trevecca.edu/faculty/hstewart/sci1200/6/london.htm

WORKING CONDITIONS: http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/work.html

DIET, HEALTH, DISEASE, AND SANITATION: http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/health.html

CHILD LABOUR – What types of jobs did children have? Why did children have to work? What did they earn? What were factory conditions like? Did they Victorians attempt to change child labour?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

http://www.academicinfo.net/histukvictorian.html

http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/child1.htm

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE:

http://www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REnightingale.htm

PHRENOLOGY AND MESMERISM: What are they?

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/phrenology

http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/mesmersm.html

DRUGS: What types of drugs did the members of Victorian society use? Were the drugs different for different classes? What are temperance and teetotalism?

http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/opium.html

MEDICINE AND SCIENCE:

http://www.geocities.com/victorianmedicine

http://216.218.133.79/links/Science/Medical_Sciences

http://www.lateralscience.co.uk

CRIME, POLICE AND PRISONS: What kind of police force existed? What were the prisons like? What kinds of crime were prevalent?

http://www.sherlockian.net/england

http://members.tripod.com/ajsmith_2/

http://www.victorianlondon.org/prisons/execution.htm

http://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/police.html

COSTUMES, HOUSES, CUSTOMS AND SOCIETY: What did people wear? How did they travel? What did the houses of the rich look like? The houses of the poor? What was domestic life like? What kind of occupations existed for women? What kinds of sports did they play? What kinds of leisure activities did they pursue? How was Christmas celebrated?

http://www.costumegallery.com/1800.html

http://members.aol.com/Eastlynne/index.htm

http://members.aol.com/alfson102/flowers.htm

http://www.magiclantern14.btinternet.co.uk

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure2.html

http://www.literary-liaisons.com/article016.html

http://www.biblicalquality.com/Christmas1.html

http://curiouscastle.com/christmas/victorianchristmas.html

http://humwww.ucsc/dickens/DEA/Geresources/Victorian.Afternoon.Tea.html

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

http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/intro.html

MONEY: What kind of money did the Victorians use?