These images are early life in Victoria which are some of the earliest photographs ever taken The complete works of William Henry Fox Talbot - hailed as the British father of photography - have been brought together on a new website launched by the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The free site has been launched in time to celebrate the anniversary of the pioneer's birthday, which was February 11, 1800. Professor Larry J Schaaf, project director for the Talbot Catalogue Raisonne, said: 'There has been nothing like this before in the history of photography.' Lacock Abbey in 1844. The abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury The Botanic Garden, Oxford in 1842. The Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the world View of the Boulevards at Paris, May 1843. This is one of more than 1,000 early Victorian photog...