For webpages about Len Vale-Onslow, see:

• Vale-Onslow online home page
  This is the homepage of Len Vale-Onslow's motorcycle shop.
  
  
• My century: a motorcycle legend: Len Vale-Onslow
  Here you can read some of Len's childhood memories.
  
  
• A living piece of history
  A BMF article about Len Vale-Onslow. (BMF is the British Motorcyclists Federation.)
  
  

To test your knowledge of irregular verbs, you can play this game:

• English irregular verbs (past tense)
  
  

For more information about the "1900 House" and the experiences of the Bowler family, go to:

• The 1900 House
  The "1900 House" series was first shown in the UK (Channel 4) in 1999. One year later, it was broadcast in the USA by PBS, an American media enterprise. They made this educational website to accompany the series. You can visit the house virtually, "meet" the Bowler family, listen to excerpts from their video diaries, watch some other video footage, etc.
  
  
• The 1900 House: the time-travelling Bowler family
  The text of a chat session with the Bowlers (28 June 2000).
  
  

1. For more information about Queen Victoria, you can start here:

• Kings and queens of the United Kingdom: Victoria
  Queen Victoria's profile on "the British Monarchy", the official website of the British Royal Family.
  
  
• Queen Victoria
  A section of "Spartacus", an educational history website.
  
  
• Queen Victoria
  A short profile on the BBC Online History Site (BBCi).
  
  
  

2. For more information about the Victorian Age, see:

• Learning Curve: Victorian Britain
  This interesting site focuses on six areas of public life in Victorian Britain. In each section there are some interactive activities. Recommended. (Read the introduction first.)
  
  
• Virtual Victorians
  This educational site follows "the daily lives of Elizabeth and John Poslett, two Victorian factory workers, across one week in September 1874". Also the "themes gallery" (childhood, education & science, cooking & cleaning, personal health, transport, etc.) is interesting. (You can click on the pictures for further information about the items.)
  
  
• History trail: Victorian Britain
  A BBCi project, with several interesting resources. There are also interactive activities, such as the cotton millionaire game.
  
  
• What the Victorians did for us: links
  This page provides a list of links, including some of the links listed below.
  
  
• Great Victorian achievements
  An animated train ride through some important Victorian inventions and achievements, such as the steamship, the first stamp, photography, mass steel production, the telephone, antiseptic surgery, Darwin's evolutionary theory, etc. A section of the BBCi history multimedia zone, aimed at children.
  
  
• Children in Victorian Britain
  Another BBCi site, which aims at primary school children but may be interesting for you as well. It focuses on: children at work, children at play, and children at school.
  
  
  

3. For more information about the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, see:

• The Great Exhibition of 1851
  A short introduction.
  
  
• The Great Exhibition of 1851
  A virtual exhibit, with pictures of the 1851 exhibition and the construction of the Crystal Palace. The virtual tour downloads slowly and is disappointing, but we recommend the slide show.
  
  

1. For more information about Lewis Carroll and his work (PB p. 55-62), see:

• Lenny's Alice in Wonderland homepage
  This site by Lenny De Rooy, a Dutch student and Alice fan, is a good introduction to Lewis Carroll's work.
  
  
• The making of Alice in Wonderland
  The story of how Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) came to write his Alice stories. With lots of illustrations. There is also an on-line version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
  
  
  

2. For on-line versions of the Alice stories, click on one of the links below:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
  
• The dynamic text edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
  
  
• Alice: Through the Looking Glass
  
  
• Through the Looking Glass (and what Alice found there)
  
  
  

3. There are some study guides to Lewis Carroll's Alice stories (with chapter summaries and analyses) on the Internet. Here are a few of them:

• Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (SparkNotes)
  
  
• Alice in Wonderland (GradeSaver, ClassicNotes)
  
  
• Alice in Wonderland (NovelGuide)
  
  
  

Selection: Jef Vanden Borre