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B O O K S

• Flanders, Judith - The Victorian City
• Hughes, Kristina - Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England
• Jackson, Lee - Daily Life in Victorian London
• Mayhew, Henry et al - The London Underworld in the Victorian Period
• Mitchell, Sally - Daily Life In Victorian England
• Pool, Daniel - What Jane Austin Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
• Stevens, Mark - Life in the Victorian Assylum

E V E R Y D A Y   L I F E

• Popular Names in the Victorian Era
  
• Cassel’s Household Guide (1869) - basically an instruction manual from 1869 telling you how to do everything from making tea to picking a job.
• Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management: A Guide to Cookery In All Branches (1907) -  Lots of period recipes, plus information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and under house-maids, Lady’s-maid, Maid-of-all-work, Laundry-maid, Nurse and nurse-maid, Monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc.
• The Victorian Era-Society
• Appendix D: English Society in the 1840s
  
• Class Structure of Victorian England
• Victorian England Social Hierarchy
• Social Restrictions in the Victorian Era
• (Excerpts From) Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England (Regarding Broken Engagements and Premarital Sex)
• Five Filthy Things About Victorian England
• 1841: A window on Victorian Britain
• The Demography of Victorian England and Wales
• What was life like for children in Victorian London?
• Historical Essays: The Victorian Child
  
• The Life of Infants and Children in Victorian London
  
• The Inequality Between Genders During the Victorian Era in England
• Women as “the Sex” During the Victorian Era
• Writers Dreamtools - Decades - 1840
• Victorianisms – Adventures in Victorian Slang
• 56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using
• A Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words (1859)
  
• Victorian slang - a guide to sexual Victorian terms
  
• A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England: To which is Now First Incorporated the Supplement, by Samuel Pegge (1839)
  
• Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and Its Environs (1844)
  
• British Slang - Lower Class and Underworld
  
• Lee Jackson - Dictionary of Victorian London 
• Domestic Violence in Victorian England
  
• The Victorian wife-beating epidemic
  
• How to Survive and Thrive in the Victorian Era
• 19th-century Radiators and Heating Systems
• The Picture of Dorian Gray; a mirror of the Victorian Era, era of Hypocrisy
  
• The Victorian Supernatural
  
• Politics of Victorian England
  
• Dualism & Dualities - The Victorian Age
  
• Black Victorians: History we’ve been taught claims we’ve only ever been slaves
• Video: Mini-lecture - London’s Black history
  
• Flowers - Victorian Bazaar (The Language Of Flowers)
• Victorian Funeral Customs and Superstitions
• Racism and Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England
  

M E D I C I N E  &  I L L N E S S 

• Victorian Health
• Medical Developments In Britain During The Nineteenth Century
  
• Hospitals
• The Entire Case Records from a Victorian Asylum Are Now Online
• Victorian psychiatric patients’ grim fate in hellish 1800s hospitals
• Locating Convalescence in Victorian England
• Sanitation and Disease in Rich and Poor
• 19th Century Diseases
• Death & Childhood in Victorian England
• Health and hygiene in the 19th century
  
• Disease in the Victorian city: extended version
  
• Musing on Illness in the Victorian Era
  
• Female hysteria / Vapours
  
• Sent to the asylum: The Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety
  
• The History of Women’s Mental Illness
  
• Anorexia: It’s Not A New Disease
  
• Rebel Girls: How Victorian Girls Used Anorexia to Conform and Revolt
  
• Warburg’s tincture
  
• Apothecaries and Medicine in the Victorian Era
  
• The Creepy Factor in Victorian Medicine
  
• Medical Advancements: Victorian Era Prosthetics
  
• The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Movement
• food poisoning in the Victorian era
  
• Typhus (Gaol Fever)
  

L A W ,  G O V E R N M E N T  &  C R I M E

• Crime in Victorian England
  
• The 222 Victorian crimes that would get a man hanged
  
• Juvenile crime in the 19th century
  
• Victorian women criminals’ records show harsh justice of 19th century
• Organised Crime in “The Mysteries of London” (1844)
  
• Dickens and the ‘Criminal Class’
  
• Victorian prisons and punishments
  
• Victorian Prison Conditions
  
• The Development of a Police Force
  
• Life in Nineteenth-Century Prisons as a Context for Great Expectations
  
• Gaols
  
• Sentences and Punishments
  
• Courtroom Experience in Victorian England at the time of Great Expectations
  
• Courts of Justice - Victorian Crime and Punishment
  
• Victorian Criminal Laws: Barbarism and Progress
  
• Child prisoners in Victorian times and the heroes of change
  
• Victorian Legislation: a Timeline
  
• Women and the Law in Victorian England
  
• The Corn Laws
• The Corn Laws in Victorian England
• The Anti-Corn-Law League
  
• The Corn Laws and their Repeal 1815-1846
• The Poor Laws During the Victorian Era
• Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England
• Bastardy and Baby Farming in Victorian England
  
• Baby Farmers and Angelmakers: Childcare in 19th Century
  

C L I M A T E ,  W E A T H E R   &   E N V I R O N M E N T

• The Climate of London (Luke Howard, 1810-1820 - PDF)
• The Illustrated London Almanack 1847
• Victorian London - Weather - Fog

F A S H I O N

• Victorian Fashion Terms A-M
• Victorian Fashion Terms N-Z
• Early Victorian Undergarments; an introduction, and about silk
  
• Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 1
• Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 2
• Early Victorian Undergarments; Part 3
• 1830s-1840s Underpinnings
  
• A Look at an Original 1840s Corded Petticoat
  
• Lingerie Guide : Crinoline - Petticoat
  
• 1840s Stays
• Exploring the Myths of Corsets I
  
• Exploring the Myths of Corsets II
  
• How to Dress a Victorian Lady
  
• Pre-Hoop Era 1840-1855
  
• 1840s Fashion (Pinterest Board)
• 1840-1848 - Early Victorian (Pinterest Board)
  
• 1840’s fashion (Pinterest Board)
  
• 1840’s fashion: men (Pinterest Board)
  
• 1840s Fashion (Pinterest Board)
  
• 1840s Fashion (Nineteenth Century) (Pinterest Board)
  
• 1840’s fashion (Pinterest Board)
  
• Mourning Dress During the Early Victorian Era
• Victoriana Magazine’s Victorian Fashion
• Early Victorian Women’s Hats; Part 1, concerning bonnets
• Early Victorian Women’s Hats; Part 2, for sun & riding
• Early Victorian Women’s Hats; Part 3, wear whatever you like
• Empire of Shadows - Clothing (Includes very basic information about upper & lower class fashion, military uniforms & undergarments)
• Women’s Costume - Dickens Fair
• Victorian Prudes and their Bizarre Beachside Bathing
• Victorian Feminine Ideal; about the perfect silhouette, hygiene, grooming, & body sculpting
• Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment
  
• 1840’s Men’s Fashion
  
• Gentlemen |  Early & Mid Victorian Era: A Universal Uniform
  

T R A N S P O R T A T I O N

• Public transport in Victorian London: Part One: Overground
• Victorian Public Transport: The Omnibus
  
• Omnibus
  
• THE HANSOM CAB - A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England
  
• “Growler” and the Handsome Hansom
  
• Regency Travel (Earlier than the Victorian era, but still relevant for the earlier years)
  
• A Regency Era Carriage Primer
• The Victorian Thames - River Thames Society [PDF]
• Nineteenth-Century Ships, Boats, and Naval Architecture (dozens of links to relevant articles)
• Early Victorian Rail Travel
• Catching a Train in the Early 1840s
  
• HORSES: Matching a Team — Color is Only the Beginning

M O N E Y   A N D   F I N A N C E S

• British Currency During The Victorian Era
• Victorian Economics: An Overview
  
• Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money
• Victorian Economics: a Sitemap
• The Cost of Living in 1888
• Pride and Prejudice Economics: Or Why a Single Man with a Fortune of £4,000 Per Year is a Desirable Husband
• The Price of Bread: Poverty, Purchasing Power, and The Victorian Laborer’s Standard of Living
• How a weekly grocery shop would have cost £1,254 in 1862
• Costs of dying in Victorian and Edwardian England
• 18th Century Wages (Earlier than the Victorian era, but good reference)
• Cost of Items 18th Century  (Also earlier than the Victorian era, but good reference)

F O O D  (A N D   L A C K   T H E R E OF)

• Victorian Dining
• The Victorian Pantry, Authentic Vintage Recipies
• Victorian cooking: upperclass dinner
• For Rich or Poor: Creepy Victorian Food
  
• Victorian History: A Fast Food Generation
• 10 Weird Foods Sold By Victorian Street Vendors
• Victorian Food For The Rich & Poor Children
• Dictionary of Victorian London - Food
  
• The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
• Victorian England: a nation of coffee drinkers
  
• London Life: Victorian Coffee Sellers
  
• Victorian street food imagined
  
• What the Poor Ate
  
• Adulteration and Contamination of Food in Victorian England
• Workhouse Food
  
• An Overview of food in 19th Century Gaols
  
• Food and Famine in Victorian Literature
  
• Milk teeth of Irish famine’s youngest victims reveal secrets of malnutrition
  

D R U G S   &   D R I N K

• The Temperance Movement and Class Struggle in Victorian England
• Gin Palaces - The Victorian Dictionary
• Alcohol and Alcoholism in Victorian England
• Drugs in Victorian Britain
• Cannabis Britannica: The rise and demise of a Victorian wonder-drug
• Laudanum Use in the 19th Century
  
• Victorian Women on Drugs, Part 1: Queen Victoria
• Victorian Women on Drugs, Part 2: Female Writers
• Substance Abuse in the Victorian Era
• Opium Dens and Opium Usage in Victorian England
  
• Chinese Opium Trade; as it was in the mid 1800s
• Poetry, Pain, and Opium in Victorian England
  

L E I S U R E   &   E N T E R T A I N M E N T

• Victorian Entertainments: We Are Amused
  
• Entertainment in Victorian London
  
• Leisure, An Extensive study of the Victorian Era
  
• Vauxhall Gardens | Jane Austen’s World
  
• Theatre - Victorian Era 1837-1901
  
• Almack’s Assembly Rooms
• The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
  
• Restaurants - The Victorian Dictionary
  
• The Story of Music Hall
  
• Sex, Drugs and Music Hall
  
• Victorian and Edwardian Public Houses (List, links to relevant articles about each listed pub)
  
• Victorian London Taverns, Inns and Public Houses
  
• Gambling in Historic England
  
• Gambling in London’s Most Ruinous Gentlemen’s Clubs
  
• Victorian Sport: Playing by the Rules
  
• Seven singular sports from the Victorian era
  
• Penny Dreadfuls; the Victorian era adventures for the masses
• Romantic Era Songs

H O L I D A Y S & C E L E B R A T I O N S

• A Victorian New Year
  
• Fortune Telling for the Victorian New Year
  
• Hogmanay: New Year’s Eve, the Scottish Way
  
• Victorian Valentine
• Valentines Day - The Complete Victorian
• Easter Traditions During the Victorian Era
• halloween - The Complete Victorian
• the traditions of halloween
• Victorian Christmas - History of Christmas
• Christmas in the Victorian Era

W E A P O N R Y  &  V I O L E N C E

• The Victorian Gentleman’s Self-Defense Toolkit
• Early Victorian attitudes towards violent crime
• Victorian Violence: Repelling Ruffians (Part One)
• Victorian Violence: Repelling Ruffians (Part Two)
• Victorian Violence: Repelling Ruffians (Part Three)
• Victorian Violence, Part Four ~ Elegant Brutality for Ladies and Gentlemen of Discernment
• 10 Deadly Street Gangs Of The Victorian Era
  
• Early Victorian Handguns; Part 1
• Early Victorian Handguns; Part 2
• Early Victorian Handguns; Part 3
• Pistol Duelling during the Early Victorian Era
• Cane Guns: Victorian Concealed Firearms of Gentlemen & Cads

M A N N E R S   &   E T T I Q U E T T E

• Manners & Tone of Good Society (This is a Victorian book on manners, written by an unnamed ‘Member Of The Aristocracy,’ and is available in full to read and covers a ton of ground, everything from leaving cards and morning calls to introductions and titles, and etiquette for many different types of parties and events).
• The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society (1875)
  
• Manners for the Victorian Gentleman
  
• Victorian Dancing Etiquette
• A Checklist of 19th Century Etiquette
• Social Rituals During The Victorian Era
  
• An Online Dating Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era
  
• Calling Cards and the Etiquette of Paying Calls
  
• Morning Calls and Formal Visits
  
• A Time Traveller’s Guide to Victorian Era Tea Etiquette
  
• Traveling Etiquette and Tips for Victorian Women
  
• Equestrian Etiquette and Attire in the Victorian Era
  
• Etiquette Faux Pas and Other Misconceptions About Afternoon Tea
  
• Victorian Table Etiquette
  
• Victorian London - Publications - Etiquette and Household Advice Manuals
  
• Etiquette Rules for Dinner Parties from a Victorian Magazine
  
• The Etiquette of Proper Introductions in Victorian Times
  
• Forms Of Introductions And Salutations. Etiquette Of Introductions
  
• Etiquette for the Victorian Child
  
• Victorian and Edwardian Mourning Etiquette
  
• Etiquette Of Carriage-Riding
  
• Victorian Etiquette - Shopping

U P P E R C L A S S   &   N O B I L I T Y

• Royalty, Nobility, Gentry, & Titles; A Matter of Victorian Ranks & Precedence
• Order of Precedence in England and Wales
  
• The Victorian Era - The Debutante Tradition
• The Gentleman - The Victorian Web 
• “Coming Out” During the Early Victorian Era; about debutantes
• The London Season
• The London Season - The History Box

T H E  M I D D L E C L A S S

• The middle classes: etiquette and upward mobility
  
• The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class
  
• The Victorian Man and the Middle Class Household - Domesticity as an Ideal
• Middle Class Life in the Late 19th Century
• A Woman ’s World: How Afternoon Tea Defined and Hindered Victorian Middle Class Women
• Working Women in the Victorian Middle-Class
• The ASBO teens of Victorian Britain: How middle-class children terrorized parks by shouting at old ladies, chasing sheep and vandalizing trees
  
• “A Dangerous Kind:” Domestic Violence and The Victorian Middle Class [PDF]
• Eligible Bachelors: Suitors and Courtship in the Lower Middle Class
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T H E   W O R K I N G C L A S S

• The working classes and the poor
• Poverty and the working classes (links to relevant articles)
• Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era …
• The Working-Class Peace Movement in Victorian England
• Victorian Child Labor and the Conditions They Worked In
• History of Working Class Mothers in Victorian England
• Income vs Expenditure in Working-Class Victorian England
• What about the Workers? - 1830s - 1840s
  

T H E   S E R V A N T   C L A S S

• Household management and Servants of the Victorian Era
  
• Victorian Domestic Servant Hierarchy and Wages
  
• Domestic Servants
  
• Serving the house: The cost of Victorian domestic servants
  
• Domestic Servants and their Duties
  
• Precedence in the Servants Hall
• The Servant’s Quarters in 19th Century Country Houses Like Downton Abbey
• The REAL story of Britain’s servant class
• Servants: A life below stairs
• The Green Baize Door: Dividing Line Between Servant and Master
• The Victorian Domestic Servant by Trevor May: A Review

T H E   U N D E R C L A S S  (T H E  P O O R) 

• The Underclass (or the Submerged Class)
• Poverty in Victorian England: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
• Down and Out in Victorian London
• Poverty and the Poor | Dickens & the Victorian City
• The Victorian Poorhouse
• Poorhouses
• Victorian Workhouses
• Entering and Leaving the Workhouse
  
• The Poor Law
• The Poor Law Amendment Act
• The New Poor Law - Victorian Crime and Punishment
  
• London’s Ragamuffins
  

I N T E R S E C T I O N A L I T Y (Of Class, Gender, Race, and Ability)

• Class, Gender, and the Asylum
• The Impact of Social Class Divisions on the Women of Victorian England
• The Daily Life of Disabled People in Victorian England

W O R K &

• Early and Mid-Victorian Attitudes towards Victorian Working-Class Prostitution, with a Special Focus on London
• Prostitution and the Nineteenth Century: In Search of the ‘Great Social Evil’
  
• Attitudes toward sexuality and sexual identity
• Victorian slang - a guide to sexual Victorian terms

O T H E R   M A S T E R P O S T S

• Writing Research - Victorian Era by ghostflowerdreams
• How to Roleplay in the Victorian Era by keir-reviews
  
• Legit’s Historical Fashion Masterpost by legit-writing-tips
  
• Susanna Ives - Many Research Links (covers Regency Era - Victorian Era)

monanotlisa:

hariboo:

as much as i love star wars and am super pumped for rogue one and episode 8, this is still a franchise that for all it’s new inclusivity and diversity still lacks having a woman of colour in a leading role within the franchise. and yes, lupita nyong'o is maz kanata but she’s not in a leading role and she plays a cgi alien, and while her reasons for this and wanting to play this role are valid, star wars is still very much about brunette white ladies being badass.

now, the film industry is terrible about having woc in space and even more so having them not be cgi’d (or have the movie be good) but here’s my list of

woc in space* (as leads/main cast and not cgi) in tv and film:

*there’s more if i was talking scifi in general but i focused on the “in space” bit

Killjoys: (a new personal fave!): bounty hunters in space! Lead by Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen, who actually had a very cameo role in TFA but died with Starkiller base blew up) and she’s what I like to call the Black Widow in space we all deserved. (TV)

Dark Matter: this is more of an ensemble show with six main leads about six people who wake up with no memory of who they are but quickly learn they’re all criminals. Or are they? Two (they all give each other number designations before they learn their names) is played by Melissa O'Neil and she very quickly becomes a leader on the ship and central to the plot. (TV)

The Expanse: this has a pretty big ensemble cast about secrets and politics in space and takes place on an asteroid mining colony, Mars, and Earth. Our main WOC in the show are: Naomi Nagata (Dominquie Tipper), Julie Mao (Florence Faivre) and Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo). Tho we don’t see Julie a lot, the story centres around her, though I’ve heard spoilers that make me sad. (personal note I need to finish this.) (TV)

Supernova: not the greatest scifi, but Angela Basset is our lead and commander of a crew that finds some funky thing in space that might end the universe! Fun! (movie)

Star Trek: but specifically Trek 09 and Into the Darkness for Uhura. Alfre Woodard in Star Trek: First Contact. Nichelle Nichols in the TOS movies. (movies) The tv shows have several WOC within the main cast but I haven’t watched any of them in the longest time so I don’t remember their prominence within the narrative.

Serenity/Firefly: I mean it is what it is but we have Zoe Washburn and Inara Serra. I think we all know what this series is about. (movie and TV)

Doctor Who series 3: THE MARTHA JONES SERIES. (TV)

Stargate Atlantis: explorers in space, mostly fucking things up but then fixing them. Or trying to. Rachel Luttrell as Teyla is a main cast member and lead for all 5 season, the writing for her isn’t always the best (haha, bitter tears) but she’s the best. (TV)

Sunshine: a group of scientist have to go RESTART THE SUN! Michelle Yeoh is part of the crew, tho the movie does have a lot of focus on two white men, but an ensemble cast. (movie)

Total Recall (1990): yes, it’s a bit of a cheat BUT IT TECHNICALLY TAKES PLACE ON MARS. SPACE! And yes, it’s an Arnold movie, but his main leading lady is Melina (played by Rachel Ticotin). (movie)

Men in Black II: also a bit of a cheat, but it has a whole bunch of aliens and spaceships! Rosario Dawson as Laura Vasquez, who is very important to the plot. (movie)

Falling Skies: Moon Bloodgood as Anne Glass and Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes Delgado, and okay, so again, a bit of a cheat bc it does take place on Earth but ALIENS AND SPACESHIPS! (TV)

Chronicles of Riddick: Thandie Newton as Dame Vakko, the main villain with great dresses. (movie)

Star Wars Rebels: animation but none of the main cast is white, including Sabine Wren, who is Mandalorian and the weapons expert. Also bonus her voice actress isn’t white either. (TV)

BSG: which I can’t believe I forgot who had Grace Park as Boomer/Athena, also Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster. Again, I think we all know what this show was about. OH, also: BSG: Razor who had Stephanie Jacobsen as Kendra Shaw.

honorable mention: After Earth because Sophie Okonedo and Zoe Kravitz’s character mostly only show up in flashback they’re still part of the family. 

i’m sure there’s more, but these are all the ones I could come up with atm in which they’re leads or main cast and not just supporting or background characters (ie like Doona Bae, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Jupiter Ascending) . (if anyone does reblog, feel free to add)

Y’all, GO WATCH KILLJOYS NOW; it rocks. It’s on Hulu & SyFy now for streaming, and there are other sources. 

I like Dark Matter, too, and recommend The Expanse for the worldbuilding and sci-fi payoff; it is not great about diversity, though, in its first season. If they follow the books the second season might be better…

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liryae:

There is literally nothing in nature that blooms all year long, so do not expect yourself to do so.

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