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Title: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Sinewgrab on 22 January 2009, 06:13:14 AM: Alright, gentlemen. You dirty rotten scoundrels have piqued my interest. Now you have to help me - can any of you give me a good list of reading material that would be good for me to get a better grasp of the time period? I am an American, and all of our schools tend to go into the Civil War and ignore the rest of the world during that period, at least until our steel magnates took over the rest of the world with their ridiculous wealth, and in college, I specialized in medieval history and literature. So, suggestions?
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: odd duck on 22 January 2009, 09:01:28 AM: Well for the sf part of vsf Jules Verne is a good start especialy some of the newer translations, and for the Victorian part the Flashman novels by George Mcdonald Fraser are entertaining and historicaly accurate.Not exactly sure what you're looking for though, do you want a overview of european history in the victorian era? or just the military side?
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: JollyBob on 22 January 2009, 09:01:47 AM: Sherlock Holmes stories.

I honestly can't think of anything better. :)
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: leadfool on 22 January 2009, 09:37:28 AM: Queen Victoria's Little Wars by Byron Farwell.
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: answer_is_42 on 22 January 2009, 09:38:24 AM: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Great-1871-1914-Still-Come/dp/0815603584/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232616676&sr=8-2

That. 16 Victorian era 'invasion stories', written between 1871 - 1914. France invades Britain, Germany invades Britain and Britain invades America, plus various other 'invasion' plots. Land Ironclads, airships and submersibles are much in evidence. It’s almost all you need to know about VSF in a single volume.

For further reading try H.G. Well's "The War In The Air" and "The Land Ironclads", they're very good.
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Bugsda on 22 January 2009, 10:12:13 AM: Flashman, no error. ;)
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Dr DeAth on 22 January 2009, 02:48:34 PM: Quote from: Bugsda on 22 January 2009, 10:12:13 AM
Flashman, no error. ;)

I agree, the Flashman novels are superb. Plenty of historical details, lots of humour and ideas a-plenty for wargames scenarios.

If you can get hold of a copy, watch the Flashman movie which is also excellent and pretty close to the books.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Flash-REGION-1-NTSC/dp/B000MQ54MQ
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Sinewgrab on 22 January 2009, 04:23:48 PM: Quote from: odd duck on 22 January 2009, 09:01:28 AM
Well for the sf part of vsf Jules Verne is a good start especialy some of the newer translations, and for the Victorian part the Flashman novels by George Mcdonald Fraser are entertaining and historicaly accurate.Not exactly sure what you're looking for though, do you want a overview of european history in the victorian era? or just the military side?

Actually, I am kind of looking for both an overview and military history - to try and grasp the era a bit better.
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: terrain_sherlock on 22 January 2009, 04:45:55 PM: The Professor Challenger series (3 books) by Conan Doyle (also author of Holmes..)
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Svennn on 22 January 2009, 05:39:36 PM: Anything by Lee Jackson (also uses L M Jackson). Great stories meticulously researched as shown by the website

http://www.victorianlondon.org/
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Cory on 22 January 2009, 07:57:42 PM: Kipling's The Man Who Would be King is a must.
Title: Re: Victorian Reading material
Post by: Hammers on 23 January 2009, 01:32:14 PM: Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is rife with references to Victorian litterature. Get the annotations to.