Timelines

• A Timeline of British History
• A Timeline of Victorian Legislation

Corn Laws

• Corn Laws
• The Campaign for the Repeal of the Corn Laws
• Richard Cobden and the Corn Laws

Reform Acts

• Reform Acts: An Introduction
• The Reform Act Crisis
• Terms of the 1832 Reform Act
• How Did the Tories Recover after the 1832 Reform Act?

Women's Suffrage

• Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-91)
• The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
• The Women's Social & Political Union
• Hastings, England, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote

Prime Ministers

• British Prime Ministers 1760-1901 (an overview of materials on 27 PMs)
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool
• The Duke of Wellington
• William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby
• Sir Robert Peel: An Overview
• Lord John Russell
• Benjamin Disraeli: An Overview
• William Gladstone: An Overview

Other Figures

• Queen Victoria
• Henry Brougham
• Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
• John Bright
• Bartle Frere
• George Hudson
• Daniel O'Connell
• Richard Cobden
• General Charles Gordon

Economic History

• Economics: An Overview
• Capitalism
• Corn Laws
• Abandonment and Restoration of the Gold Standard

Miscellaneous

• Tory (see also Conservative Party)
• Whig
• The Liberal Triumvirate
• Victorian Liberalism
• Political Speeches
• The Poor Law: an overview (80 documents)
• The Small Size of National Government in the Age of Victoria
• Why Did England Not Have Revolution — The Halévy Thesis
• Nineteenth-Century Riots and Civil Disorders
• Riots, Disaffection, and Repression, 1811-19
• The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain
• Chartism and The Chartist Movement
• Working-class atheism and materialism
• Politics and Theology in Victorian Dissent
• The Protestant Fight for Jewish Civil Liberties in Victorian England
• The Victorian Legal System: Contemporary Accounts
• Cities and towns
• Letters from the Past: a collection of primary sources

The British Empire and International Relations

• British Empire Overview
• British Empire: An Introduction
• Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900?
• Boer War
• Crimean War: An Overview (200 documents)
• Crimean War: An Introduction
• The Chinese Opium Wars
• The People's International League
• The Role of the Victorian Army
• Victorian Representations of War
• The Lost Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage
• The Risorgimento or Wars of Italian Unification

Related Topics

• Victorian Social History: An Overview
• A Brief History of London
• The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851
• The Railway Mania of the 1840s
• Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities
• The Metropolitan Police
• The Victorian Development of the Idea of "the Public Interest"
• Victorian Jacobites
• Related Web Resources

Pre-Victorian Political History

• Before Victoria: People and Events Discussed in the Victorian Web
• King George the Fourth (a.k.a. "Prinny")
• French Revolution
  • An Introduction
  • Victorian Images of the French Revolution
• Interregnum
• The Restoration
• The " Glorious Revolution "
• Cromwell
• The New Model Army
• James I
• James II
• Jacobites
• The Divine Right of Kings
• Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present