Interpreter Foundation Church History and Britain’s Victorian Century Tour Study Resources
Movies and Mini-Series
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Emma, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Mil on the Floss, George Eliot
Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Daavid Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (Oliver), Charles Dickens
Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit, Chartles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
The Barchester Chronicles, Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
A random list of a few other favorites
The Darkest Hour (Winston Churchill)
Miss Potter (Beatrix Potter)
Mrs. Brown (about Queen Victoria after the death of Albert), Judi Dench stars
Howard’s End, E. M. Forrester
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C. S. Lewis
Shadowlands (about C.S. Lewis and Joy Lewis)
Rise Up, Women (documentary on British women’s suffrage movement)
Suffragette, about the woman’s suffrage movement in the UK
Shackleton, about British Arctic Explorer Ernest Shackleton, Kenneth Branagh stars
Any, all, SHAKESPEARE Plays
Books
James B. Allen, Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker. Men with a Mission: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837-1841. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1992). (Available in hardback, used paperback, and Kindle editions from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and eBay)
Eugene England, Brother England
Richard L. Evans, A Century of “Mormonism” in Great Britain
Bruce A. Van Orden, Building Zion, The Latter-Day Saints in Europe
Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball: An Apostle
Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth, The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Matthew Cowley, Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff, Leaves from My Journal
Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young, American Moses
Preston Nibley, Brigham Young, The Man and His Work
The Journal of Brigham, compiled by Leland R. Nelson
Parley P. Pratt, The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
Matthew Lyman Rasmussen, Mormonism and the Making of a British Zion
Kristine Wardle Frederickson, Extraordinary Courage, Women Empowered by the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Kenneth and Audrey Godfrey, Jill Mulvay Derr, Women’s Voices, An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Rebecca Bartholomew, Audacious Women, Early British Mormon Immigrants
Leon R. Hartshorn, Remarkable Stories from the Lives of Latter-Day Saint Women
Leon R. Hartshorn, Exceptional Stories from the Live of Early Apostles
Jeni Broberg Holzapfel & Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, eds., A Woman’s View, Henen Mar Whitney’s Reminiscences of Early Church History
British History and Related Books
*Stuart E. Prall and David Harris Willson, A History of London, Volumes 1 & 2
Roy Strong, The Story of Britain, A People’s History
*W.D. Rubinstein, Britain’s Century: A Political and Social History, 1815-1905
*Christopher Hibbert, The Story of England
Michael Paterson, A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain
Sally Mitchell: Daily Life in Victorian England
*Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce & the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
*William Wilberforce, Real Christianity
Henry G. Weisser, Understanding the UK
Roy Porter, London, A Social History
*Christopher Hibbert, London, The Biography of a City
*A. N. Wilson, London, a History (Brief)
*F.E. Halliday, England, a Concise History
Christopher Daniel, A Traveller’s History of England
Articles
Arnold K. Garr “George A Smith’s Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839-41.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles, Robert C. Freeman and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Editors. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2007.
Carol Wilkinson and Cynthia Doxey Green. “The Church in Britain before 1840.” In The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England, Carol Wilkinson and Cynthia Doxey Green, Editors. Editors. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2017.
