Links to our Victorian Friends and Period Resources

Grimm Tales	Friends, with flintlocks...
Tallows LRP Supplies	Our good friend Jephram. LRP weaponary in the old forge style. Top quality, beautiful looking, and as robust as they come. Don't leap into the fray without one! I still use a sword of his that's now 14 years old - nik
Bridal Originals Kindred Spirits	Bridal Originals (the period wedding specialists) offers beautiful period haute couture and historical made to measure designs from their UK based studios; specialists in Victorian wedding dresses and offering historical costume workshops including Victorian corsetry and accessories. Much of our costume came from these fine pepole...
Live Roleplay UK	A brand new site dedicated to all manner of LRP in the UK.
	The Age of Aether - Play by Email Game set in the year 1880. The Victorian era having been transformed by the discovery of "Aether", allowing her majesties Navy into space! Go there, it's a top laugh :-)
Lateral Science	An amazing resource of weird science, such as "The Young Man's Book of Amusement", "The Victorian Nitrogen Laser", "Victorian Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engine" and "A Method of Electro-Plating Lizards"...
Sutlers Stores	Loads of good props and costume pieces...
Heliograph, Inc	Heliograph, Inc. are publishes historically-based science fiction role playing games and fiction, they do some super stuff - and nice folks to boot who are always welcome for a cup of tea.
Forgotten Futures	Go get yourself a Professor Challenger Charity CD-Rom from our friend Marcus, ripping good stuff! Most heartily recomended!!!
Boilerplate	Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed by Professor Archibald Campion during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
Victorian Web	Victorianism, pure and simple, a fantasticly spiffing resource.
The Victorian Women Writers Project	The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Steady on, they'll be giving them the vote next, bless their pretty little souls.
Miss Mary's Victorian Links	ALL things Victorian, from the knowledgeable & charming Miss Mary.
Lewis Carroll Home Page	A great guide to Lewis Carroll resources plus documents on-line and in print.
British Poetry 1780-1910	Scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature, and poetry, gathered to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1910.
The Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive	The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Victorian Adventure Gaming Webring	We're a member, and there's others like us, sort of, well, no, they're mainly Tabletop folks and Wargames people but they seem nice and we should invite them over for cake I say...
Chris Redmond's Sherlockian Homepage	a collection of materials (and sites) about Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Costume Gallery	They host over 800 web pages and 2,500 images of Victorian and Period fashion and costume, a great resource for LRP!
The Flashman Society	Formerly The Flashman Socitey of the United Kingdom. The only British Flashman Society and a curious study of a "totally different" Sir Harry Paget Flashman (certainly bearing no relation to ours), Brigadier-General V.C. K.C.B., K.C.I.E. 1822 - 1915 and all that, what, what...
Life in a London House	This nicely presented site focuses on the life of a Victorian suburban family (children, staff, food, menus and even a room by room inventory), all in about 1890.
The Grand Tour	"A trip to Italy with a spinster aunt as chaperone was part of a lady's education" - a Victorian Links site.
Queen Victoria's World	Victorian Resources from the Great to the Seedy. Has a particularly good article on West End Clubs.
Victorian Economics (Part of the The Victorian Web)	How much money would a Victorian earn, carry and spend ?
Fantastic, Mysterious and Adventurous Victoriana	A truly splendid site featuring all manner of strange and extraordinary things Victorian from film, literature and reality.
Victorian Psychical Interests	A page looking at Victorian Mesmerism, Phrenology and Spiritualism (has a couple of nice pictures you might want to pinch too !)
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn	A modern day webpage which also contains extensive historical details of the infamous mystical group founded in London in 1888 by Dr. William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.
The Theosophical Society	Founded in 1875 by the infamous mystic H.P. Blavatsky, this is one of the more notable Mystical Socities to have emerged in the late Victorian times. This site also contains details of Mme Blavatsky's clashes with the Society for Psychical Research.
The Ghost Club (est.1851/1862) 1 & 2	The World's oldest Society of Paranormal Investigators with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W.B. Yeats among its members. Unfortunately there are two rival Ghost Clubs today - both claiming to be the true successor to the original Society! - Both are detailed.
The Babbage Pages	About Charles Babbage, his infamous Difference Engine and Ada Byron, the Countess of Lovelace.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Society	Information about Conan Doyle's life and works and the Society devoted to him.
Conan Doyle and his Spiritualistic Interests	Courtesy of the First Spiritual Temple... (est.1883)
The Comte de Saint-Germain...	A little about the infamous Comte (okay so he's more 18th century, but he was meant to be immortal).
Phil Masters' Steampunk Resources	An excellent set of links to pages of Victorian Arts, Science, People and Places from the author of "GURPS Steampunk".
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	A complete set of annotations (with links) of Alan Moore's absolutely must-read comic of Victorian Adventuring in 1898.
Haworth	In The West Riding of Yorkshire, one of our favourite Victorian Towns.
Artizania & Art Fairs	Organisers of specialist Antique Costume & Textiles Fairs.
The Nottingham Horse and Carriage Company	Horse and Carts for hire, perfect for that Victorian picnic plus really nice people and beautiful horsies.
Forbidden Corner	Smashing location, a mad labyrinth of tunnels, chambers, follies and surprises in a sculptured four acre garden in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
Faded Empires	Our good friends Alex, David and Heather run this epic Dune(esque) system set in a fantastic sylised past/future, a decadent playground amongst the stars...
War Games Foundry	Spiffing Table Top Wargaming Figures - some spot on Victorians inclusing the gob-smacking Queen Victoria with Shotgun!!!
St. Johns College Punt Soc.	This site explains how the renting system works for under graduates, plus a map of the river to show where you fell in...
Severn Valley Railway	Take an observation car on a Victorian steam train through the ancient Wyre Forest, through ancient coppices and water meadows, with cake.
Dictionary of Victorian London	A growing guide to the social history of Victorian London, from Houses and Sanitation to Entertainment and Religion.