General
- A Timeline of British History
- British Empire: An Introduction
- Fear of losing markets and the 'new imperialism' of the 1880s
- The Industrial Revolution, Textiles, and Empire
- Ambivalence, Economy, and Empire in Victorian Britain
- Disraeli's Imperial Policies
- Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900?
- The Role of the Victorian Army
- Imperial and Postimperial Rhetorics of Benevolence. A Review of Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin's Burden or Benefit?
- Preparing Children for Empire: “ Introduction,” Megan E. Norcia's X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children
Individual Colonies
Australia - Peter Miller Cunningham’s Two Years in New South Wales (1827)
- Australia in Victorian literature
- Dickens's Great Expectations
- Vice-Admiral Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), first governor of New South Wales and founder of Sydney, Australia
- Australia Overview (in the Postcolonial Literature Web)
- Burma
- How Burma entered the Empire
- Photographs of Burma (15 screens)
- Gibraltar
- Gibraltar, an English territory with southern characteristics (Video produced and shared by Jyskebank.tv, a Danish online tv station broadcasting in English)
- Hong Kong
- England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60
- Commissioner Lin Ze-xu's Letter to Queen Victoria
- The Nemesis — Great Britain's Secret Weapon in the Opium Wars, 1839-60
- The Principle of Extraterritoriality and the Opium Wars, 1839-60
- The China Question in Punch, January to June 1857
- India
- Ireland
- Britain and Ireland 1789-1801
- Another View: Why Ireland Wasn't a Colony
- "An Éirinneach nó Sassanach tú?" — Are You Irish or English?
- The Irish Famine: 1845-49
- Science and Empire in Victorian Ireland: The Evidence of British Association Meetings in Ireland
- Anti-Irish Prejudice
- Jamaica and the Governor Eyre Controversy
- Race and Religion in the Victorian Age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising
- New Zealand (in the Postcolonial Literature Web)
- New Zealand in Victorian Literature
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- South Africa: A Chronology
- Boer War
- 15041 Private Joseph L. Vince , Royal Canadian Regiment, Veteran of the Boer War
Related Web Resources
- Mike Wynn's materials on the British Empire
Related Issues in Victorian Political History
- The Anti-Slavery Campaign in Britain
- Colonial Theory in 1849 — E. G. Wakefield
- Crimean War
- Economics: An Overview
- T. F. Mills's Landforces of Britain, the Empire, and Commonwealth (U. of Denver)
- Tory (see also Conservative Party)
- Whig
- Prime Ministers
- Other major figures
- Race and Class Overview
- The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851
- Victorian Culture Shock
Last modified 11 July 2011