The History Department has chosen to spend a portion of their appropriation for library purchases for Fiscal Year 2018 on perpetual access to Queen Victoria’s Journals. These journals start when Queen Victoria was only 13 years old and continue to her death. This exciting resource is now available through our All Databases Page.
Queen Victoria’s Journals
Queen Victoria is the longest serving British monarch. One hundred and forty-one volumes of her journal survive, beginning in 1832, ending the year of her death in 1901, and numbering approximately 33,000 pages. As well as detailing household and family matters, the journals reflect affairs of state, describe meetings with statesmen and other eminent figures, and comment on the literature of the day. This full-text searchable website reproduces every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria’s journals, as high-resolution color images along with separate photographs of the many illustrations and inserts within the pages.