Victorian Scrapbooking: Further Resources

• Step-by-Step Tutorial: Visit this page for videos and a supply list to use in your classroom. 

• Additional Resources, developed by Elizabeth Bassett and Heather Dean: Consult an info booklet with a list of scholarly readings, blogs and websites, instructional videos, extant examples, and 19th-century tutorials.

• Victorian Samplings Podcast S1, Ep8 (“The Collector’s Edition”): Listen to interviews with Freya Gowrley and Alison Hedley talk about unique examples of Victorian scrapbooking—one of which takes the form of a scrap screen.

• Victorian Samplings Podcast S1, Ep10 (“Calling All Bibliophiles”): Listen to Elizabeth Bassett talk about Victorian albums filled with collections of scraps, signatures, and seaweeds. 

• Learn about William Macready & Charles Dickens Scrap Screen in the Victorian Things exhibit.

• Learn about Ella Kidman’s Autograph Album in the Victorian Things exhibit.

• Learn about Frederick Langton’s Scrapbook in the Victorian Things exhibit.

• Check out our page of sample syllabi and assignments for more ideas about how to integrate scrapbooking into your humanities class.