The English: A Social History, 1066–1945 (Text Only)

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by Christopher Hibbert


  London town houses, 325

  mediaeval town houses, 101–2

  prices, 336

  provided for millworkers, 577

  semi-detached, 612

  sites, 332

  specification for 1934 semi-detached, 675–6

  villas, 612

  workers in northern industrial towns, 570

  yeomen, 320

  housing, Cobbett deplores state of, 488

  destruction by air raids, 677

  and disease, 436

  drop in completion rate during war, 676–7

  and health, 707

  overcrowding, 676

  social unrest over, 695

  subsidization, 675

  Huddersfield, 302, 570

  Huguenots, 198, 231

  Hull, custom administration, 284

  Defoe on, 304

  public latrines, 103

  ship-repair yards, 473

  theatre, 419

  town wall, 195

  water supply, 103

  hunger marches, 697

  hygiene, bathrooms, 334, 611

  Carlyle’s bathing arrangements, 505

  chimney sweeps wash, 596

  dental, 225, 442–3

  and health standards, 707

  house-cleaning, 334

  laundry, 337

  personal cleanliness, 335

  public baths, 621

  washing arrangements at Belvoir Castle, 502

  washstands and bathtubs at Blenheim, 545

  Hythe, 102–3

  immigration, Irish, 598, 641

  implements, see tools

  incomes (see also wages and salaries), from distilling, 379–80

  fashionable courtesan, 635;

  John Taylor, 313

  landowners, 320, 541–2

  and maintenance of carriages, 610–11

  necessary for employment of servants, 608–9

  nobility, 289, 308–9

  popular novelists, 628

  professional, 610

  rich gentry, 320

  squire, 319

  yeomen, 320

  Industrial Revolution, 467–76 passim

  industry, between First and Second World Wars, 698, 699

  cloth, 284

  Combination Acts, 480

  cottage, 483, 577

  employment in, 699

  fishing, 175, 176, 284, 299

  fuel for, 174

  industrial diseases, 474

  industrial disputes, 480

  industrial firms found football clubs, 624

  labouring women and children, 468

  late eighteenth century prosperity, 466–7

  Luddism, 482–7

  mining, 175

  relations between employers and employees, 477, 480–82

  rural, 471

  sixteenth century, 173, 175

  stocking-weaving, 301

  textiles, 174

  wages and industrial economies, 472

  Ingatestone Hall, 196, 204–6, 207, 211, 219

  inns, 77–8, 98, 243, 354–7 passim, 420

  interior decoration, 617–18

  ceilings, 332

  wallpaper, 332

  inventions, 468, 474, 659

  Ipswich, 535

  Defoe on, 299

  Garrick, 419

  geese and turkeys from, 304

  grammar school, 118

  municipal office, 101

  railway, 645

  Iwerne Minster, 556

  jewellery, 549, 551

  Jews, anti-semitism, 317

  assaulted in Oxford, 127

  coiners hanged, 142

  dealers in second-hand clothes, 534

  expulsion, 104

  fancy dress lenders, 629

  financiers, 318

  houses, 534

  moneylenders, 104

  riots directed against, 690

  Sabbath-keeping, 531

  Jockey Club, 369

  journeymen, 105, 235

  Justices of the Peace, maintenance of law and order left to, 663, 664

  powers of office, 319

  rates of wages, 176, 256

  after Restoration, 255;

  Speenhamland system, 492

  statutory powers of enlistment, 672

  trial of agricultural rioters, 491

  women magistrates, 704

  Kedleston Hall, 554

  Kendal, 284, 451

  Kenilworth Castle, 4, 199, 210

  Kew Gardens, 328

  kissing, 401–2

  kitchens, basement, 325

  in Carlyle’s house, 505–6

  distance from dining room, 544

  Johnson’s 523–4

  mediaeval, 5

  Southey’s Daniel Dove, 331

  utensils, 336

  knights, 82, 84–5

  Lacock Abbey, 194

  Lambeth Palace, 197 language, Cornish, 227

  costermongers, 526

  dialects, 307, 319

  education of Henry VI, 121

  Elizabeth I, 273

  English, 121

  French, 116

  Grand Tour, 464, 465

  Latin, 116, 127, 131, 132, 134

  Norman French, prologue

  nuns’ ignorance of, 121–2

  propriety in, 338

  teaching, 463

  words connected with cock-fighting, 367

  law, abortion, 702

  benefit of clergy, 144–5, 663

  child labour, 469

  civilian guardians of, 663

  corruption, 140–41, 144

  criminal law reform, 662–3

  ecclesiastical courts, 188

  enforcement, 146–7

  Game Laws, 360

  on gipsies, 180

  incomes of lawyers and barristers, 610

  juries, 144, 400

  jurisdiction as source of revenue, 142

  legal profession and social hierarchy, 605–7

  manor courts, 139

  marriage, 382

  masters and apprentices, 235

  New Poor Law, 493

  Non-Conformists and Roman Catholics, 258–9

  Pie Powder Courts, 105

  professional constabulary, 666

  sanctuary, 145–6

  speed limit, 660, 677

  study of, 136–7

  trial by combat, 141–2

  trial by ordeal, 141

  under Puritans, 260

  vagabonds, 182

  witchcraft, 263

  women enter legal profession, 703

  women under, 107, 389

  Leeds, 304

  Amphitheatre, 425

  brewers, 284

  clothing trade, 233

  Defoe on cloth market, 302–3

  gig-mills, 482

  Grand Theatre, 632

  inhabitants and dwellings, 569

  Marks and Spencer, 699

  mills and factories, 473, 475

  music halls, 630

  overcrowding, 676

  population growth, 568, 569

  tramcars, 657

  xenophobic riots, 690

  Leicester, buildings, 234

  Cook’s excursion from, 683

  Defoe on, 301

  prison, 668

  hosiery works, 473

  husbandry, 97

  public latrines, 103

  university, 694

  water supply, 103

  Leicester House, 197

  libraries, army garrisons, 674

  country houses, 324

  Lincoln College, Oxford, 135

  Mudie’s ‘Select Circulating Library’, 628

  public, 215, 622, 678

  rich men in Middle Ages, 214–15

  Lichfield, 284, 375

  life expectancy, 386, 580, 585

  lighting, Belvoir Castle, 501

  candles, 334, 651

  church candlesticks, 620

  coal mines, 582, 587

  electricity, 555, 699

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sp; gas, 555, 611

  oil, 555

  railway trains, 651–2

  rush-lights, 19

  stage, 418

  Lincoln, 101, 124

  Lismore Castle, 309

  literacy, in army, 674

  brick workers, 589

  increasing importance of, 123

  Islington poor children, 448

  mediaeval ladies, 122

  in seventeenth century, 270

  women, 274

  Little Moreton Hall, 195

  Little Wenham Hall, 195

  Liverpool, average age at death, 570

  cholera, 439

  circus, 425

  criminals, 665

  Defoe on, 304

  Irish immigrants, 564

  Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 645, 646, 649–50

  market, 535

  mayors, 101

  population, 466, 473

  rioting, 695

  slave trade, 284, 466

  steamboats take holidaymakers from, 679

  survival of poor, 697–8

  theatres, 419, 632

  watchdogs, 209

  Woolworths, 699

  xenophobic riots, 690

  local government, 176, 557

  lodging houses, 378, 574–5, 682

  London, beggars, 179

  booksellers, 218, 519

  Bow Stret runners, 663

  cabmen’s shelters, 655

  changing face of, 228–30

  charity schools, 267

  cheats and rogues, 184

  cholera, 439, 440

  churches, 316

  Civil War fortifications, 388

  cockpits, 367, 368

  cookshops, eating houses and taverns, 523–4

  Defoe on port of, 304

  design of houses, 325

  employment, 473

  entry of monarch, 87

  fairs, 105

  flats, 612

  garden suburbs, 676

  hospitals, 151, 156, 157, 158, 160

  housing conditions, 336, 676

  Inns of Court, 136–7

  licensing hours, 700

  literacy, 270, 274

  lord mayor, 86

  markets, 104, 231–3, 286, 287, 522, 532–5

  pageants, 86, 87–9

  parks and pleasure gardens, 363

  pastimes and pleasures, 362–4, 365

  places of sanctuary, 145

  plague, 162–3, 164. 165

  police, 664

  population, 98, 228–9, 284, 473

  port, 284, 304

  poverty and destitution, 570–75, 697

  property and incomes of nobility, 308–9

  prisons, 667–8

  prostitution, 634, 635–9

  riots and demonstrations, 36–8, 176, 177, 495

  sanitation, 102, 103

  schoolmistresses, 122

  shopping, 515–21 passim

  shrine of St Edward the Confessor, 80

  slums, 570

  street name plates, 517

  street vendors, 231–3, 525–6;

  Temple Bar, 87

  tennis courts, 211

  theatres and music halls, 408–25 passim, 628–32

  transport, 647–8, 652–3, 656, 657

  Tyburn executions, 191, 379, 389

  underworld, 185

  wages, 234

  watchmen, 147

  water supply, 103

  London School of Medicine for Women, 703

  Longleat, 194, 195, 196, 502, 504

  lords of the manor, ‘ales’, 55; ‘cartage’, 69–70

  effect of manorial and tithe rights, 490

  employers of labour, 31

  heriot, 26

  jurisdiction, 139, 142

  manumission of serfs, 29–30

  and pregnant women, 107

  remarriage of serfs, 28

  unchastity of peasants, 28

  use of lands, 34

  Loughborough, 234, 487, 683

  Luddites, 482–7

  macaronis, 339

  machinery, farm, 321–2, 558

  industrial, 467, 482

  Luddites, 483, 486

  riots, 490

  water-driven, 474

  workers smash, 481–2 magic, and mediaeval medicine, 152, 154

  magistrates, see Justices of the peace

  Maidstone, 370, 536

  Manchester, child mortality rate, 581

  cotton-spinners, 284

  Defoe on, 303

  Engels in, 569

  factories, 473, 475

  factory girls, 578

  fines on spinners, 476

  industrial arson, 467

  Irish immigrants, 564

  Leland on, 233

  Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 645, 646, 649–50

  lodging-houses, 570

  mills, 473

  music halls, 630

  overcrowding, 676

  parish church, 316;

  Peterloo Massacre, 495

  population, 303, 316, 466, 568

  public lectures, 463

  public library, 622

  public parks, 622, 642

  repertory theatre, 632

  Royal Lunatic Asylum, 430

  Sunday schools, 453, 683

  University, 702

  Woodhead Tunnel, 646

  Wythenshawe, 676

  xenophobic riots, 690

  Manchester Grammar School, 453

  Mansion House, 532

  Marine Pavilion, Brighton, 555

  markets, 104–5

  country people’s reliance on, 535

  Covent Garden, 532

  Leeds, 699

  London, 231–3, 286, 287, 532–5

  Norwich, 102

  provincial, 535

  second-hand clothes, 522

  Stocks Market, 532

  York cloth, 302–3

  marriage, 381–7

  affection as basis for, 391–2

  arranged, 391

  burgess families, 100

  celebrations, 54

  costermongers, 526

  divorce, 390, 701

  in families of property, 107

  Fleet marriages, 382

  La Rochefoucauld on husbands and wives, 392

  married working women, 703

  mediaeyal peasants, 28

  nobility, 309

  Paston family, 107–9

  separation, 107, 180, 389–90

  of servants and employers, 508

  sexual experience before, 701

  soldiers restricted by army regulations, 639

  wife-sale, 390–91

  Marylebone Cricket Club, 371

  masques, 220–22

  maypole, 55–7, 260

  meals (see also food), Bedford’s bill at Red Lion, Cambridge, 293

  Mrs Beeton’s recommendations, 616–17

  Boswell dines with Johnson, 524

  breakfast, 324, 547

  canteen at Thomas Adams and Co., 577

  ceremonies in mediaeval noble household, 12–14

  cost during First World War, 691

  dinner at Blenheim, 542

  dinner at New College, 460

  early nineteenth century, 325

  eighteenth century, 324–5

  in landowners’ houses, 542–3

  lord and lady eat with household, 11–12

  in Middle Ages, 5, 7, 9–10

  Pepys’s dinner parties, 285

  price of tavern meals, 523

  Mrs Prinsep’s servants, 505

  at Sandringham, 543

  seventeenth century, 285

  sixteenth century, 7

  Sunday, 643

  Tom Brown’s breakfast, 357

  medicine, anaesthetics, 440, 706–7

  antiseptic surgery, 707

  army health, 673

  Church attitude to, 156–7

  factory sick clubs, 577

  glister, 314

  improved skills and treatment, 707

>   inoculation, 433–5

  mediaeval, 149–55, 158

  medical profession and social hierarchy, 605

  mountebanks, 426–9; ‘parish doctors’, 706

  remedies for venereal disease, 165, 398

  sea-water, 679

  study of, 157

  Sydney Smith, 312

  treatment of mental illness, 430

  treatment of tuberculosis, 439

  women enter profession, 703

  mercantile marine, casualties in World Wars, 698, 708

  Hull, 304

  increase in eighteenth century, 466

  Plimsoll and, 599–600

  slave ships, 466

  Merchant Taylors’ school, 456

  middle class, carriages, 610–11

  church attendance, 619–20, 641

  Church of England, 641

  clerks, 607

  croquet, 625

  daily routine, 618, 619

  domestic economy, 616–17

  etiquette, 613–15

  furniture, 618

  houses, 611–13

  ignorance of conditions in poor homes, 698

  leisure occupations, 625, 678

  move further out from London, 647

  professions, 605–6

  Reform Act, 492

  respectability, 601–2

  servants employed by, 497, 513

  smaller families and improved living standards, 703

  snobbery, 602–5

  use of prostitutes, 634

  mills (see also factories), water- and wind-, 25

  Milner Field, 556

  mines, coal, 474, 583–7

  conditions after General Strike, 696

  government control, 707

  lead, 305, 306

  pumps, 468

  strikes, 695

  sufferings of miners, 474

  women and children, 468

  working conditions, 468

  minstrels, 94–6

  monasteries (see also Dissolution of the Monasteries), 45–8

  almonry schools, 115, 117–18

  charity to the poor, 179

  hospitality, 77

  infirmaries, 156

  parlours, 196

  road maintenance, 66

  sanctuary, 145

  stone plundered from, 194–5

  money, counterfeit, 518

  Morte d’Arthur, Le, 82–3

  motor-cars, see transport

  Motor Show, Earl’s Court, 677

  municipal offices, 101

  murders, Ratcliffe, 664

  museums, 622

  music, bands in public parks, 642

  at Blenheim, 542; ‘celestial bed’, 430

  choral societies, 622

  church, 89

  holiday camps, 686

  hunting horns, 359

  long gallery, 197

  masques, 220–22

  May Day, 57

  mediaeval instruments, 14–15

  minstrels, 94–6

  musical parties, 625–6

  musicians accompany Earl of Bedford, 292

  pilgrims, 79

  popularity, 219–20

  Richard II’s coronation celebrations, 87–8

  royal band of George III, 679

  royal Tudors’ talent, 219

  at Sandringham, 542

  at seaside resorts, 681

  taught at Merchant Taylors’, 271

 

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