A TV show I just caught the tail of mentioned an archeological pioneer called Petrie. Google elaborates that this is probaby William Matthew Flinders Petrie, an important Victorian Egyptologist (that page is part of the Petrie Museum site).
Another link that showed up is for a gothic RPG campaign run by the RPGA, RPGA Living Death – Jasper-Petrie Expedition.
Fortean times links from GMS: The God Machine: …In 1854, an experiment far stranger than anything in Mary Shelley’s novel took place when a New England clergyman married science and spiritualism in an attempt to build nothing less than a god.
Also, speculation about a black magic conspiracy behind The Son of Sam.
Gareth-Michael Skarka (who designed and published a game called Underworld, documenting its creation as an rpg.net column) has a blog: The Designer Monologues
From Palladium games, their first complete game from 1983, The Valley of the Pharaohs, is online.
Journal of Manly Arts is a special section of the Journal of Western Martial Arts dedicated to European and Colonial Combatives, 1776 – 1914
. Link from Phil Masters’ Steampunk page.
Also of interest (for my Victorian game) are the 2nd part of the Flashman Chronology (a terrific site. Must read those books sometime), covering the later half of the Victorian era, and this more domestic-oriented Victoriana site