I'm making a steampunk novel, and the scenario is England (In a fictional city based on London). I'm always searching about the Victorian age, the costumes, jobs, how people lived, what were the jobs, and so on, to make a combination with the real story mixed with steampunk elements. I was searching about how people were treated, police violence, how women were treated in society... But I admit to having some difficulty finding out about these topics in specific, if someone out there can help, thank you very much.
Note: If you want to comment interesting things that's historical accurate and is good to put in a novel, you're welcome, and thanks.
Note 2: Not English native speaker, sorry for any grammar error.
While more always can be said, there is a British writer named Lee Jackson. He wrote a few novels set in Victorian times and started piling uo research data in an online encyclopedia
(http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm)
There you can browse through lots of information regarding the victorian era, and everything has sources. You will find on the left side the larger topics, all of them clickable to create a menu with suubtopics. If you click on those, the texts will appear on the right side with the sources down below. Have fun finding out lots of things!