Having been introduced to Twitter recently, I wondered what I could fit into 140 characters that would encapsulate the Victorian world - then I thought of Victorian jokes. I have a somewhat obsessive interest in Victorian London, and have been publishing nineteenth century news items, diaries, guidebooks, maps and more on my website The Dictionary of Victorian London for some years. We invited him to select some of his favourites and share them with us : Whilst covering the earnest side of Victorian life, Lee also revels in the less serious aspects, and followers of his Twitter feed will be familiar with the Victorian jokes that he regales his followers with. Lee runs The Dictionary of Victorian London, a commodious miscellany of all things related to life in London during Queen Victoria's reign. If you're an aficionado of all things Victorian and you don't know about Lee Jackson's website, you'd best get yourself acquainted.