bowler hats 231–2
Box Tunnel, Bath 120
Boyd, Dr A. K. H. 178–80
bread 53, 55, 67
Brighton 123–4, 145, 247–8, 250, 251
British Army 297, 305, 309–11, 312–13
and East India Company 321
officers and gentlemen 324–8
recruitment 328, 340–1
sale of commissions 312, 319
uniforms 17, 315, 318–19, 323–4
volunteers 340–1
see also specific conflicts
British Empire see British Army; Royal Navy; specific conflicts; entries beginning colonial
Brontë, Charlotte 17
Brougham, Lord 258
Brown, John 23
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 116–17, 119, 126–8, 230
Bryant and May’s match factory strike 42
Brydon, Dr William 311
Buckingham Palace 10, 75, 97
Buller, General Sir Redvers 325–6, 334, 335
Burges, William 80
Burnaby, Fred 124, 286
Burne-Jones, Edward 105–6
bustles 217–18
Butterfield, William 81
Buxton, Edith 187–8
Cambridge University 18, 143–4, 191–2, 269
see also Oxford and Cambridge
Campbell, Colin 229, 325–6
Canada 56, 254, 255, 263
canning industry 57
Cardigan, Earl of 312
Carey, William 191
Carlyle, Thomas 4, 291
cars 151–4
Catholicism 163, 165–6
conversion (Tractarianism) 158–9, 160, 165, 192
Roman Catholic Church 79–80, 169, 170
Cawnpore 321
chamber-pots 96
Chamberlain, Joseph 23
chaperones 206–8
charity/philanthropy 35–6, 46–8, 59–60, 156, 160, 165, 167–8
Charlotte, Princess 2, 4
Chartist demonstrations (1848) 13, 73
cheese 195
‘cheese-cutter’ caps 229–30
Chelmsford, Lord 328
child criminals 50–1
child labour 38–40
childbirth anaesthesia 18
children, street 47–8, 49
China
Inland Mission 191–2
opium wars 307
chokers 217
cholera epidemics 35, 162, 165–6
Christian values 164–5
Christmas trees 15
church architecture 79–80, 161, 169–70
church attendance 172–3
church music 179–80, 185–6
Churchill, Winston xxii, 229, 326–7
chutney 64
Circle Line (underground railway) 141–2
civil unrest 35, 51, 73, 161, 164
Classical/Italianate style 71, 74–6, 77, 83, 88, 99, 120
clerks 224–5, 226–7, 231–2, 234–9, 240, 241
lady 242–5
clippers 129–30
clothes
child labour 39–40
cyclists 148–51
former female servants 40–1
hooligans 50
men 223–8, 249–50, 251
military uniforms 17, 315, 318–19, 323–4
Queen Victoria
knitting for soldiers 19, 30
as ‘Widow of Windsor’ 21
Royal Family 16
seaside 249–51
selling of street children’s 49
as symbol 195–6
women 215–18, 249–50
coach travel 111–14, 115, 131
coaching clubs 115
coaching inns 113, 114–15
coastal resorts 124
see also Brighton
coffee stalls 66–7
Coke, William 232
colonial troops 310–11, 329
colonial wars 323
colonialism 300
attitudes to subjects 29, 299
guardians of Empire 305–6
leading nation 302–5
worldwide network 301–2
colour 91–2, 106, 224–5, 226, 227
commodes/‘night tables’ 96
commuting to work 131, 233–4
concentration camps, South Africa 335–6
confidence, age of 296–8, 301, 302
conformity 194–5
Conroy, Sir John 3
conservatories 93–4
Cook, Thomas 111, 259–60, 261, 262–3
cookery books 58–60, 64, 69
Coubertin, Charles, Baron de 277
counting houses 234–40
see also clerks
countryside recreation 254–5
courting 206–9
language of the fan 211–12
opportunities of foreign travel 261–2
Crichton-Stuart, John Patrick, Marquess of Bute 192
cricket 264–5, 267–8, 272, 276
crime 48–51, 73, 293
Crimean War 311, 312–19
‘cheese-cutter’ caps 229
commemoration 162
painting 281
public mistrust of Prince Albert 9, 20
Queen Victoria as symbolic leader 19
whiskers 233
crinolines 216–17, 224
croquet 273–4
Cruikshank, George 308
Crystal Palace 123, 139, 162, 251
see also Great Exhibition (1851)
Cubbitt, Sir Thomas 11
Cugnot, Nicolas 151–2
cultural tourism 253–5
curries 63–4
frozen 69
Cutty Sark (clipper) 130
cycling schools 144, 146–7
Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) 148–9
Daily Mail 284–5
Daily Telegraph 31
Darwin, Charles 193
Diamond Jubilee xxii–xiii, xv-xvi, 23, 29, 231, 299, 329, 339
Dibdin, Charles 308
Dickens, Charles 49, 185, 225, 230–1, 232–3, 234, 241
Little Dorrit 171
London home of 87–8
Oliver Twist 37
Our Mutual Friend 101
Pickwick Papers 182, 230, 287, 289
and Queen Victoria 6, 14
Sketches by Boz 167–8, 173–4, 238
diet see food
Dilke, Sir Charles 22, 23
Dion-Bouton (steam car) 152
diseases
cholera epidemics 35, 162, 165–6
overeating 60
typhoid 20, 22, 97
vitamin deficiency 53
Disraeli, Benjamin 8, 24–5, 160, 192, 262, 304
dock labourers 43, 44
Drais, Baron von 143
du Maurier, George 288
‘dundrearies’ 233
Dunlap, James 41
earning a living
gentlemen 233–40
women 40–4, 242–5
‘earth closets’ 97
East India Company 63, 235, 307, 320, 321
Eastlake, Charles 72
Edis, Robert 72
education
colonial 299
military 319, 320
of street children 47–8
Education Act (1870) xvii, 278
Edward, Prince (Duke of Kent) 2–3, 19
Egypt
and Sudan 329–30, 331–2
Tel-el-Kebir crisis (1882) 28, 324, 329
tours 261–2
electric cars 153
electric telegraph 27, 121, 129, 240, 315
electric trams 137
Eliot, George 5
Elizabeth I 4, 7–8, 19, 297
Ellis, Hon. Evelyn 152
Engels, Friedrich 53
engraved illustrations 281–3
evangelism 160, 162–3, 165, 166, 189–91
Evening News 285
Factory Acts 42–3
factory work 41–4
fans, language of 211–
12
fasting, humiliation and divine displeasure 161–2
fish and chips 56, 67–8
fives, game of 275–6
Fonthill Abbey 78
food
adulteration of 54–6
cheese 195
cookery books 58–60, 64, 69
curries 63–4
dining 58–9, 60–3
grain imports 56, 254
meat 52–3, 54, 60, 67
packaging 64–5
and poverty 53–4, 65, 66–9
street 65–9
transportation and preservation 56–8
Food and Drugs Act (1860) 55
football 263–4, 268–70, 276
footwear
men 288–9
women 221–2
foreign railways 121, 124, 259–60
foreign rivals 298, 302–5, 338–9
foreign travel 257–63, 296–7
foreigners, attitudes to 298–300
Forth Bridge 120
Francatelli, Charles 58–9
France
Napoleonic Wars 53, 229, 307, 309, 311, 336
as old enemy 336–8, 340
Paris Exhibition (1867) 304
Franklin, Sir John 57
French Riviera 258–9
Frith, William Powell 248–9, 250
frock coats 225, 226
Froude, James Anthony 304
Fulton, Robert 124
furnishings 71, 72, 79, 87, 88–9, 100
coil springs 90
lacquered (‘japanning’) 103
manufacturing 90–1
papier mâché 89–90
Galsworthy, John (Forsyth Saga) xi, xxiii, 76, 109, 324, 341
gambling 259
games see sports; specific sports
garrotting (suburban mugging) 49–50
gas cookers 58
gas heating 95–6
gas lighting 93
George III 2, 15, 28, 111
George IV (Prince Regent) 2, 3, 194, 247–8
George V 226
Georgian style 70–1, 74, 86, 95
Germany 298, 303, 334
Royal Family connections 2, 9, 15, 24, 25, 30
Gissing, George xvi
Gladstone, William 25–6, 160, 330
Glasgow School of Art 108
‘golden age’ xiii–xiv
golf 272–3
Gordon, General Charles 25, 165, 261, 284, 288, 330
Gothic/medieval revival 77–80, 81–2, 88–9, 92
Grace, W. G. 268
grain imports 56, 254
Great Britain (ship) 127
Great Eastern (ship) 127–8
Great Exhibition (1851) xix, 82, 83, 87, 134, 281
Medieval Court 79
Prince Albert’s contributions to 11, 18–19, 35–6, 77
Great Western Railway (GWR) 116–17, 126, 127
Great Western (ship) 126–7
Greville, Charles 27
Grossmith, George and Weedon (Diary of a Nobody) 98–9, 239, 250
‘gunboat diplomacy’ 306
hair styles
men 232–3
women 220–1
Hall, Sir Benjamin 136
ham sandwiches 67
Harmsworth, Alfred 284–5, 294
hats
men 229–32, 250, 251
seaside 249, 250, 251
women 218–20, 249, 251
Haweis, Mrs Mary 72
Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road 90
health
resorts 252–3, 258–9
see also diseases
Helena, Princess 9–10
Henley Regatta 271–2
Henty, G. A. 294–5
Herbert, G. 143–4
Hetherington, John 230
Hibberd, Shirley 72
‘High Victorian’ taste 80
Highland troops 314, 315, 318–19
Hilliard, George Stillman 296–7
Hogg, Quentin 48
Holt, Sir Edward 106–7
homelessness 36
Hoover, Herbert, US President 240
hostesses 202–3
‘hourglass figure’ 217–18
housing
improvements 35–6
and living conditions of the masses 32–5
Prince Albert’s ‘model dwellings’ 11, 35–6, 77
tenements 77
workhouses 33, 36–8
see also architecture/interior design
Housman, Laurence 12, 28, 31
Hudson, George 119
Hughes, Molly 174, 176–7, 181–2, 185
hymns 185–6
ice-cream 69
Illustrated London News (ILN) xii-xiii, 110, 231, 280–1, 283
Illustrated Police News 283
India 29, 191, 310
Cook’s tours 263
herbs and spices 63–4
India Act (1858) 321
Indian Army 274–5, 311, 320, 321, 322, 329
Indian Mutiny 311, 320–1, 324, 330–1
commemoration 162
Queen Victoria as symbolic war leader 19
Industrial Revolution 247, 303
Inge, W. R. xvi
Ingram, Herbert 280
interior design 71–3
interior design see architecture/interior design
Italianate style see Classical/Italianate style
James, Henry 324
Jerome, Jerome K. xxiv, 257
Jones, Owen 92
Kaiser Wilhelm II 31, 150–1, 199, 288
Keble, John 158–9
Kelmscott Press, Oxfordshire 105–6
Kensington Palace Gardens 83
Kent, Duchess of (Victoria, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) 2–3, 4, 20
Kent, Duke of (Prince Edward) 2–3, 19
‘kept women’ 41
Khartoum, siege of 330, 331
Kipling, Rudyard 305, 333–4
Kitchener, General 331, 332, 335
kitchens 58, 85, 86–7
Kruger, Paul 335
Landseer, Edwin 27
lavatories 96, 101
counting houses 242
water closets 97–8
lavatory paper 98
leaving cards 196, 198, 200–2, 205
Leech, John 287
Leon Bollee 152
Leopold, King of Belgium 4, 7, 8, 9
Leopold, Prince 9–10, 18
Lethaby, Dr 33–4
libraries 290–1
Lincoln, Abraham 230
Linley Sambourne House, Kensington 99–100, 101
Livingstone, David 165, 229
locomotives 122
London
railway termini 120–1, 124
rookeries 34–5
London and Birmingham railway 116
London Library 291
London and Scotland railway 123
Longford, Elizabeth 18
Louis-Philippe, King of France 12, 337
Louise, Princess 9–10
Lucan, Lord 312
Lucas, Charles Davis 317
Lucknow 321
Lukas, John xxiii
Macadam, John 112
MacDonald, General Hector 325–6
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie 108
Macmillan, Kirkpatrick 143
MacNicol, Bessie 220
magazines 283, 286, 294
Maidenhead 257
mail coaches 111–12, 113–14
Malmesbury, Lord 13
Manning, Henry 160
Maple’s, Tottenham Court Road 90
margarine (‘butterine’) 53
marriage
and sexual behaviour 209, 210
and spinsterhood 212–14
see also courting
Marshall, Agnes Bertha 69
May, Phil 250, 288
Mayhew, Henry 38, 66–7, 68
meat 52–3, 54, 60, 67
preservation and transportation 57–8
Medieval Court, Great Exhibition (1851)
79
medieval/Gothic revival 77–80, 81–2, 88–9, 92
Melbourne, Lord 6, 8, 159
messengers 239–40
Methodists see Nonconformists
Metropolitan Police 41, 48–9
‘Metropolitan Railway’ 139–41
Michaux, Ernest and Pierre 143, 145
Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras 81
milk 55, 56
missionaries/missions 166–7, 189–92
Monte Carlo 259
Moody, Dwight 189–90, 191
morning calls see social calls
morning coats 227
Morning Star 279–80
Morris, Tom 273
Morris, William 71, 104–6
Moule, Reverend Mr 97
Mudie’s (library), Oxford Street 290–1
muffin man 68–9
Muir, Augustus 144
Napoleon III 12, 337
Napoleonic Wars 53, 229, 307, 309, 311, 336
Nash, John 75, 76
National Days of Fasting and Humiliation 161–2
Navigation Act, repeal of (1849) 127
New Art 108
New Journalism 284–5
Newman, John Henry 159
Nicolas I, Tsar of Russia 34, 313
Nightingale, Florence 316
Nonconformists 163–4, 165, 166, 169–70, 178
Northumberland, Duke of 117
officers and gentlemen 324–8
Olympic Games 277
Omdurman, battle of (1898) 331
omnibuses 131–5
opium wars 307
Orchard, B. G. 238–9
ornamentation 71–3, 79, 87, 88, 89–91, 92–4, 100–1, 103, 105–6, 108
Orrinsmith, Mrs Lucy 72
Osborne House, Isle of Wight 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 27, 248
Osri, Joseph 134
Ottoman Empire 306–7, 313
Oxford and Cambridge
Boat Race 255, 271, 272
football match 269
Oxford, Keble College 81, 170
Oxford Movement 158–9, 160
oysters 68
paddle-steamers 124–5, 126
Palace of Westminster 78–9
Pall Mall Gazette 284
Palmerston, Lord 12, 20, 24, 160, 306–7
‘Palmerston Forts’, Portsmouth 337–8
papers 278–80
comic 286–8
edifying 288–9
entertaining 284–6
pictorial 280–3
war reports 315–16
Parsons, Charles 128
Paxton, Joseph 139
Peabody, George 36
Pearson, Charles 139–40
Peel, Sir Robert 6, 13
‘penny dreadfuls’ 293
‘penny farthings’ 145–6
philanthropy/charity 35–6, 46–8, 59–60, 156, 160, 165, 167–8
photography 281, 283
and Royal Family 16, 18
pies 68
Pitman, Isaac 241
plate-glass windows 87
polo 274–5, 324–5
postcards 252
potatoes 68
poverty
diet 53–4, 65, 66–9
living conditions 32–5
Presbyterian Church of Scotland 177–81
press gangs 307
Prince Regent (George IV) 2, 3, 194, 247–8
Prince of Wales (‘Bertie’) 9–10, 16, 20, 22, 29, 185, 217, 259
Prior, Melton 282
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