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Introduction

"The sun never sets on the British Empire," was the catch-phrase of this historical era, bounded by the birth and death of Queen Victoria, 1839 to 1901.

It was an age of Exploration and Adventure, of Elegance and Ingenuity, of Manners and Social Responsibility. It was also an era ofRampant Industrialism, SystematicRacism and astonishing Arroganceemittedfrom an elite ofthe wealthy and the so-called "upper class".


Victorian Era RPGs

Cthulhu by Gaslight (Chaosium)
Castle Falkenstein (R. Talsorian)
Dark Continents
Deadlands (American pseudo-history)
For Fairy, Queen and Country (TSR, Amazing Engine)
Forgotton Futures (self published by Marcus Rowland)
Maléfices (French RPG)
Space 1889(GDW)
Terra Incognita: The NAGS Society Handbook (a FUDGE based RPG set in the adventurous victorian era).
Victoriana
Victorian Age Vampire (White Wolf)
Victorian Gurps

These are of course mostly alternate history RPGs that extrapolate from Victorian culture.

References:

Fiction

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Frank Miller (graphic novel)
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Oliver Twist and Great Expectations by Charles Dickents
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Robur the Conquerer, and many more stories by Jules Verne
The Time Machine, First Men in the Moon, War ofthe Worlds by H.G. Wells


Non-Fiction

The Victorian Underworld by Donald Thomas and Henry Mayhew
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England by Daniel Pool

Regency Underworld by Donald Low

The Writers Guide to Everday Live in Victorian and Regency England by Kristine Hughes

Alternate Histories

Steam Punk
Deadlands

Links

Gaslight, a Victorian/Steampunk miniatures rules set can be found at this link: http://historicalhobbies.com/DOGS/main/Gaslight/Gaslight.htm
Victorian era fashion here: http://www.fashion-era.com/the_victorian_era.htmhttp://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html
Victorian Pulp
Dictionary of Victorian London
Great map of Victorial London:http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/imagemap.html
http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html
Victorian Roleplaying Themes
19th Century Timelines
How To Speak 19th Century
Google Directory of 19th Century History sites