The Making of Modern Britain - HIST 358a Resource Guide

JSTOR article by E. Spencer Wellhofer.

British Tory statesman and novelist; prime minister (1868; 1874-80). He gave coherence to the Tory principles of protectionism and imperialism.

From The Reader's Companion to Military History
The Boer War began when Sir Alfred Milner, the British high commissioner in South Africa, goaded the Boers in the South African republics into declaring war on October 12, 1899.

Radical British democratic movement, mainly of the working classes, which flourished around 1838 to 1848. It derived its name from the People's Charter, a six-point programme comprising universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, secret ballot, annual parliaments, and abolition of the property qualification for, and payment of, members of Parliament.

Use of the young as workers in factories, farms, and mines. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain.

1853–56, war between Russia on the one hand and the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France, and Sardinia on the other.

JSTOR article
Decade of London Pauperism, 1891 to 1901
William Chance
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society vol. 66 no.3 (Sep. 1903) pp. 534-581

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia
In Britain, an act of Parliament which governs conditions of work, hours of labour, safety, and sanitary provision in factories and workshops.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901).

Or Reform Bills, in British history, name given to three major measures that liberalized representation in Parliament in the 19th cent.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Waterway of Egypt extending from Port Said to Port Tawfiq (near Suez) and connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez and thence with the Red Sea. The canal is somewhat more than 100 mi (160 km) long.

British statesman, the dominant personality of the Liberal party from 1868 until 1894. A great orator and a master of finance, he was deeply religious and brought a highly moralistic tone to politics.

The Victorian Web, which originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web, is one of the oldest academic and scholarly websites.

The Workhouse often evokes the grim Victorian world of Oliver Twist, but its story is a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture. This site is dedicated to the workhouse — its buildings, inmates, staff and administrators, even its poets...

When Victoria ascended the throne, there were one-and-a-half million Londoners; at her death, there were four-and-a-half million, a population explosion spurred by the Irish potato famine and new laws which allowed Jews escaping from Russian pogroms to immigrate.