Northwestern and Online Resources
Archives and Databases
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)*
- Bibliography of British and Irish History
- BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History
- The British Cartoon Archive
- British Periodicals Online*
- Charles Booth Online Archive
- The Churchill Era Archives
- City and Trade Directories 1750-1919
- Eighteenth-Century Journals*
- Empire Online*
- First World War: A Multimedia History
- First World War Diaries
- The Guardian (1821-2003): ProQuest Historical Newspapers*
- Hansard 1803-2005
- HOLNET: The History of London
- Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003*
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance*
- London Lives 1690-1800: Crime, Poverty, and Social Policy in the Metropolis
- London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform, and the Victorian Underworld*
- Mass Observation Online*
- MLA International Bibliography*
- Moving Here (Migration to Britain)
- The National Archives
- The National Portrait Gallery
- The National Register of Archives
- Nines: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online
- 19th-Century Collections Online (Gale)*
- 19th-Century Digital Index
- 19th-Century Fiction (Chadwyck-Healey)*
- 19th-Century Masterfile*
- 19th-Century UK Periodicals*
- Northwestern University Library Subject Guides
- The Observer (1791-2003): ProQuest Historical Newspapers*
- The Office of Public Sector Information
- The Old Bailey Online: 1674-1913
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*
- Parliamentary Papers Online
- Periodicals Archives Online*
- Periodicals Index Online*
- Royal Historical Society
- The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985*
- Victoria Research Web
- Victorian Database Online*
- The Victorian Web
- UK Census Online 1841-1901
- World Cat*
Conferences
- The International Society for the Study of Narrative
- NACBS: North American Conference on British Studies
- NAVSA: North American Victorian Studies Association
Discussion Boards
Institutes
Libraries
- The Bodleian Library, Oxford
- The Bodleian Library: Online Manuscript Collection
- The British Library
- Cambridge University Library
- LSE Library Pamphlet Collection
- The National Art Library
- Northwestern University Library
- Science and Picture Library
- Wellcome Library
- The Women’s Library
Newspapers and Media
- BBC History
- BBC News
- British Library Newspaper Reading Room (Colindale, north London)
- British Pathé 1896-1976
- The Daily Telegraph
- The Economist
- Financial Times
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- London Review of Books
- The Times
- The Times Literary Supplement
Research Trips to the UK
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British Studies Photos
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Toy theatre, from a colored print by Pollock's, depicting the final explosion in The Miller and His Men (c. 1870) -
Henry Mayhew, 'The Street Rhubarb and Spice Seller,' London Labour and London Poor (1851) -
Indian soldiers mingle with West Africans arriving in India for jungle training -
Ludgate Circus, central London (c. 1880) -
John Thomson, 'The Crawlers,' Street Life in London (1876-77)
Northwestern Presidential Fellows in British Studies
Maha Jafri (English, 2012-14)
Michael Slater (English, 2010-12)
Darcy Hughes Heuring (History, 2006-8)
Jenny Mann (English, 2004-6)
Leah Guenther (English, 2003-5)
Guy Ortolano (History, 2002-3)
