Adams, James Eli et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Victorian era (4 vol, Groiler 2003); online vol 1-2-3-4; comprehensive coverage in 500 articles by 200 experts
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, eds. The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: a reader's companion to the people, places, events, and everyday life of the Victorian era (Henry Holt, 1996) online
Hughes, William. Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (Edinburgh University Press; 2023), covers culture, literature and politics.
Mitchell, Sally.. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1990), not online
Bourne, Kenneth. The foreign policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (1970) online, survey plus primary documents
Briggs, Asa. The Age of Improvement 1783–1867 (1979), Wide-ranging older survey emphasizing the reforms. online
Cevasco, G. A. ed. The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture (1993) 736pp; short articles by experts
Chadwick, Owen. The Victorian Church (2 vol 1966), covers all denominations online
Clark, G. Kitson The making of Victorian England (1963). online
Ensor, R. C. K. England, 1870–1914 (1936) online influential scholarly survey
Gregg, Pauline. A Social and Economic History of Britain: 1760–1950 (1950) online
Harrison, J.F.C. Early Victorian Britain 1832–1851 (Fontana, 1979).
Harrison, J.F.C. Late Victorian Britain 1875–1901 (Routledge, 2013).
Heilmann, Ann, and Mark Llewellyn, eds. Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999–2009 (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 323 pages; looks at recent literary & cinematic, interest in the Victorian era, including magic, sexuality, theme parks, and the postcolonial
Hilton, Boyd. A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783–1846 (New Oxford History of England. 2006); in-depth scholarly survey, 784pp.
Hobsbawm, Eric (1997). The Age of Capital, 1848–1875. London: Abacus.
McCord, Norman and Bill Purdue. British History, 1815–1914 (2nd ed. 2007), 612 pp online, university textbook
Paul, Herbert. History of Modern England, 1904–6 (5 vols) online free
Perkin, Harold. The Origins of Modern English Society: 1780–1880 (1969) online
Hoppen, K. Theodore. The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846–1886 (New Oxford History of England) (2000), comprehensive scholarly history excerpt and text search
Roberts, Clayton and David F. Roberts. A History of England, Volume 2: 1688 to the present (2013) university textbook; 1985 edition online
Somervell, D. C. English thought in the nineteenth century (1929) online
Steinbach, Susie L. Understanding the Victorians: Politics, Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2012) excerpt and text search
Swisher, Clarice, ed. Victorian England (2000) 20 excerpts from leading primary and secondary sources regarding literary, cultural, technical, political, and social themes. online free
Woodward, E. L. The Age of Reform: 1815–1870 (1954) comprehensive scholarly survey online
Daily life and culture
Aston, Jennifer, Amanda Capern, and Briony McDonagh. "More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England." Urban History 46.4 (2019): online
Biscoff, Christopher "Teaching Britain: Elementary Teachers and the state of the everyday (1846-1906)" (2019) ISBN978-0198833352 Discusses the training, careers, experiences and views of teachers in England and Scotland.
Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. W.W. Norton & Company: 2004. ISBN0-393-05209-5.
Hellerstein, Erna H.; Hume, Leslie P.; Offen, Karen M., eds. (1981). Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in 19th Century England, France, and the United States. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN9780804710886.
May, Trevor (1994). The Victorian Schoolroom. Great Britain: Shire Publications. Short book covering various aspects of, mainly, state-funded education in England and Wales. Situation in Scotland and Ireland is only touched on.
Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Greenwood Press: 1996. ISBN0-313-29467-4.
O'Gorman, Francis, ed. The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture (2010)
Roberts, Adam Charles, ed. Victorian culture and society: the essential glossary (2003).
Thompson, F. M. L. Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830–1900 (1988) Strong on family, marriage, childhood, houses, and play.
Weiler, Peter. The New Liberalism: Liberal Social Theory in Great Britain, 1889–1914 (Routledge, 2016).
Felluga, Dino Franco, et al. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015).
Flint, Kay. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2014).
Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature, 1991)
Purchase, Sean. Key Concepts in Victorian Literature (2006)
Politics
Aydelotte, William O. “Parties and Issues in Early Victorian England.” Journal of British Studies, 5#2 1966, pp. 95–114. online
Boyd, Kelly and Rohan McWilliam, eds. The Victorian Studies Reader (2007) 467pp; articles and excerpts by scholars excerpts and text search
Bright, J. Franck. A History of England. Period 4: Growth of Democracy: Victoria 1837–1880 (1902) online 608pp; highly detailed older political narrative
A History of England: Period V. Imperial Reaction, Victoria, 1880‒1901 (1904) online
Brock, M. G. "Politics at the Accession of Queen Victoria" History Today (1953) 3#5 pp 329–338 online.
Brown, David, Robert Crowcroft, and Gordon Pentland, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800–2000 (2018) excerpt
Martin, Howard.Britain in the 19th Century (Challenging History series, 2000) 409pp; textbook; emphasizing politics, diplomacy and use of primary sources
Trevelyan, G. M. British History in the Nineteenth Century and After (1782–1901) (1922). online very well written scholarly survey
Walpole, Spencer. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 (6 vol. 1878–86), very well written political narrative to 1855; online
Walpole, Spencer. History of Twenty-Five Years (4 vol. 1904–1908) covers 1856–1880; online
Young, G. M. "Mid-Victorianism" History Today (1951) 1#1 online.
Bailey, Victor. Policing and punishment in nineteenth century Britain (2015).
Churchill, David. Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City (Oxford UP, 2018)
Emsley, Clive. Crime and society in England: 1750–1900 (2013).
Emsley, Clive. "Crime in 19th Century Britain." History Today 38 (1988): 40+
Emsley, Clive. The English Police: A Political and Social History (2nd ed. 1996) also published as The Great British Bobby: A History of British Policing from the 18th Century to the Present (2010)excerpt
Gatrell, V. A. C. "Crime, authority and the policeman-state." in E.M.L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge social history of Britain 1750-1950: Volume 3 (1990). 3:243-310
Hay, Douglas. "Crime and justice in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England." Crime and Justice 2 (1980): 45–84. online
Kilday, Anne-Marie. "Women and crime." Women's History, Britain 1700–1850 ed. Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, (Routledge, 2004) pp. 186–205.
May, Margaret. "Innocence and experience: the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century." Victorian Studies 17.1 (1973): 7–29. online
Radzinowicz, Leon. A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750 (5 vol. 1948–1976)
Radzinowicz, Leon and Roger Hood The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England (1990)
Shore, Heather (2000). "The Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England". History Today. 50 (6).
Shore, Heather. "Crime, policing and punishment." in Chris Williams, ed., A companion to nineteenth-century Britain (2007): 381–395. excerpt
Storch, R. D. (1980). "Crime And Justice in 19th-Century England". History Today. 30: 32–37.
Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online
Gooch, Brison D. (1973). "Recent Literature on Queen Victoria's Little Wars". Victorian Studies. 17 (2): 217–224. JSTOR3826186.
Goodlad, Lauren M. E. (2000). "'A Middle Class Cut into Two': Historiography and Victorian National Character". ELH. 67 (1): 143–178. doi:10.1353/elh.2000.0003. S2CID161748511.
Homans, Margaret, and Adrienne Munich, eds. Remaking Queen Victoria (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Kent, Christopher (1996). "Victorian social history: post-Thompson, post-Foucault, postmodern". Victorian Studies. 1996 (1): 97–133. JSTOR3828799.
Mays, Kelly J (2011). "Looking backward, looking forward: the Victorians in the rear-view mirror of future history". Victorian Studies. 53 (3): 445. doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.53.3.445. S2CID143253052.
Moore, D. C. "In Search of a New Past: 1820 – 1870," in Richard Schlatter, ed., Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing since 1966 (Rutgers UP, 1984)
Sandiford, Keith A. P. (1981). "The Victorians at play: Problems in historiographical methodology". Journal of Social History. 1981 (2): 271–288. doi:10.1353/jsh/15.2.271. JSTOR3787112.
Stansky, Peter. "British History: 1870 – 1914," in Richard Schlatter, ed., Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing since 1966 (Rutgers UP, 1984)
Webb, R. K. Modern England: from the 18th century to the present (1968) online widely recommended university textbook
Primary sources
Black, E.C. ed. British politics in the nineteenth century (1969) online
Bourne, Kenneth. The foreign policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (Oxford UP, 1970), contains a short narrative history and 147 "Selected documents" on pp 195–504. online
Hicks, Geoff, et al. eds. Documents on Conservative Foreign Policy, 1852–1878 (2013), 550 documents excerpt
Temperley, Harold and L.M. Penson, eds. Foundations of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902) (1938), of primary sources online
