Library Guides @ VIU: History: Victorian/Hist 361

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Victorian History: Finding Articles

These databases of journal and news articles can be searched either through LibrarySearch or directly through the links below.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database with full text journal articles, including peer-reviewed titles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary, full text, scholarly journal archive with strong retrospective coverage.

Victorian History: Selected Periodicals

Illustrated London News
Call Number: AP 4 I3 (Special Collections; ask at Service Desk to access)
Some years between 1870 and 1897 are available.

The girl's own paper & woman's magazine
Call Number: AP 201 G46 (Special Collections; ask at Service Desk)
The girl's own annual
Call Number: AP 201 G5 (Special Collections; ask at Service Desk)
Some years available between 1882 and 1940.
St. Nicholas
Call Number: AP 201 S3 (Nanaimo Periodicals)
American children's magazine. Some years available between 1895 and 1910.

Victorian History: Selected Primary Documents Online

Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. Offers images of the texts rather than transcriptions. Each section features thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Original source material from British and European archives to support study of history, literature, sociology, education and cultural studies from a gendered perspective.
Intelex Past Masters This link opens in a new window
See: The Modern Era: 1800-1950, 40 volumes of correspondence from important figures in nineteenth and twentieth century England, published by Oxford University Press.
Classic texts in both original languages and in English translation.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window
Includes documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.Topics include the African Coast; the Middle Passage; the varieties of slave experience (urban, domestic, industrial, farm, ranch and plantation); Spiritualism and Religion; Resistance and Revolts; the Underground Railroad; the Abolition Movement; Legislation; Education; the Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today.The project aims to assemble clusters of material offering in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.