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

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by Christopher Hibbert


  at tournaments, 86

  Tudor composers, 218

  Tudor instruments, 219

  Welbeck Twelfth Night ball, 504

  Nantwich, 388, 451

  National Insurance Scheme, 696

  navvies, 645–6

  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, coal, 175, 233, 290

  craft guilds, 92

  criminals, 665

  mines, 473

  newspapers, 627

  port, 304

  priory, 51

  prosperity, 284, 691

  Newmarket, 306, 367, 369, 374

  newspapers, 627, 678–9, 696

  Nightingale School of Nursing, 705–6

  nobility, see aristocracy

  Non-conformism (see also Puritans), Baptists, 317

  Dissenters, 259, 314, 316, 317, 467, 641

  Dissenting Academies, 461–3

  Methodists, 309, 314, 315, 316, 317

  Nonconformists, 258–9

  Presbyterians, 317

  outings organized, 622

  proliferation of sects, 254

  Quaker education, 272

  Quakers, 259, 314, 317, 467

  working class and, 641

  Northampton, 51, 129, 301, 473

  Northumberland House, 230

  Norwich, Bethel Hospital, 431

  charity school, 266, 451

  churches, 284

  circus, 425

  market, 536

  marketplace, 102

  population, 233, 284, 568

  railway, 645

  theatre, 419

  wealth, 100

  worsted and silk, 299

  Nottingham, Borstal, 670

  Celia Fiennes on, 301

  charity school, 266

  climbing boys (sweeps), 596

  Defoe on, 301

  hosiery works, 473

  paviour, 103

  street obstruction, 102

  Thomas Adams and Company, 577

  university, 694

  nunneries, 48–9, 121

  nurses and nursing, 705–6

  parish nurses, 395

  Oakham, 4, 97

  ophthalmic treatment, 707

  Orchardleigh House, 556

  Order of the Garter, 86

  Osborne House, 553, 554, 555

  Oundle School, 454, 455

  outlaws, 142, 147

  Oxford, alehouaes, 375

  castellated buildings, 4

  Chancellor’s authority over citizens of, 132

  coffee-house, 291

  complaints of corruption, 101

  dirty streets, 129

  lepers, 159–60

  market, 535

  plague, 162

  repertory theatre, 632

  town development, 124

  Oxford University, age of students on admittance, 135, 279

  cindex1ed role of, 277

  differences between rich and poor students, 278

  discipline, 279, 460

  distinguished students, 278

  examinations, 460–61

  expenses, 133–4

  fellows, 131–2, 135, 279–80

  First World War casualties, 690

  food, 132–3

  Laudian Code, 280–81

  living conditions, 132

  mendicant friars, 136

  miracle plays, 90

  music degrees, 218

  penalties and punishment, 128–9

  poor scholars, 134–5

  prohibitions, 130, 131

  reputation, 282

  riots and disturbances, 124–8

  scholars’accommodation, 129–131

  scholarship, 124

  theologians and philosophers, 136

  tutorial system, 279

  undergraduates’ purpose by fifteenth century, 136

  Wesley, 316–17

  colleges, 131

  Cardinal, 187

  Hertford, 460

  Merton, 118, 131, 460

  New, 460

  Queen’s, 117

  pacifism, 689

  conscientious objectors, 708

  Ramsay MacDonald, 695

  pageants, 86–9

  masques, 220

  miracle plays, 91, 92–3

  parks, public, 621–2, 642

  Parliament (see also Acts of Parliament), Chartism, 494, 495

  Civil War, 252

  Committee of Inquiry into Criminal Laws, 662–3

  Dissenters, 317

  Dissolution of the Monasteries, 187

  divorce, 390

  drunkenness of Members, 375

  informality of Members, 325–6

  Jews, 317

  legislation on spirits, 379–80

  railways, 651

  removes clothworkers’ protection, 482

  taxation, 38, 187

  thanks Joshua Ward, 429

  Turnpike Trusts, 350

  women in, 703–4

  parlours, 196, 201, 325

  peasants, mediaeval, agriculture, 21–2

  dwellings, 19

  effect of Black Death on prosperity, 34

  food, 20–21, 22

  heriot, 24, 26

  manumission, 29–30

  marriage, 28

  membership of guilds, 30

  poaching, 23–4

  restrictions, 24–5

  rewards, 22

  rights, 22–3

  serfs and free men, 30–31

  taxes and payments, 24

  women, 27–8

  Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 36–8, 146

  pedlars and cheapjacks, 180, 536–8

  Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 36–8, 146

  pedlars and cheapjacks, 180, 536–8

  peers of the realm, see aristocracy

  Penshurst Place, 5

  periodicals, 627–8, 678

  Perth miracle plays, 91

  Peterloo Massacre (1819), 495

  Petworth House, 323, 542

  pictures, in eighteenth century houses, 332

  housed in libraries, 324

  long gallery for portraits, 197

  miniatures, 218

  prices, 332

  pilgrims, 72, 79, 80–81, 105

  pirates, 71–2, 231

  Plymouth, 233, 266, 283–4, 657

  poaching, 23–4, 119, 360, 489

  police, 663–6, 695, 696

  poor, the, Act of Settlement, 255

  army recruits, 673

  between First and Second World Wars, 697

  Booth and the poor of London, 570–75

  chimney sweeps, 469

  church attendance, 641

  conditions in northern industrial towns, 569–70

  contraception, 702

  Crowley’s poor-relief, 467

  diet, 203, 287, 473, 474

  doles, 255

  duration of marriage, 386

  dwellings, 103–4, 227, 229

  education, 450, 452

  eighteenth-century attitude to poverty, 469–71

  enclosure of land, 472

  free hospital treatment, 707

  holidays, 679

  housing conditions, 676

  illiteracy, 448

  London street sellers, 529–31

  monasteries and, 179

  muster-at-arms, 100

  Overseers, 183, 255; ‘parish doctors’, 706

  paupers in agriculture, 469

  poaching, 489

  pregnant women and the sick, 256

  prices and wages, 254

  prosperity increases during First World War, 691–2

  prostitution, 635

  pulmonary tuberculosis, 438

  Queen Victoria and Sabbatarianism, 643

  relief, 256, 284, 473, 481

  reproduction, 387

  rights and responsibilities, 100–101

  rural industries, 471

  sell teeth, 444

  seventeenth-century, 284, 289

  smaller families and improved living standards, 703

  at university
, 278–9

  unwanted babies, 395

  Poor Law, 696

  Poor Law Amendment Act, 492

  population, in 1087, prologue; by 1600, 227

  by 1800, 473; 1801 census, 466; 1857, 706

  depopulation of country parishes, 489–90

  fluctuation in Middle Ages, 34

  increase in greater London, 568

  Jews, 317

  Lancashire mill towns, 467

  London, 228–9

  Manchester, 303, 316

  mediaeval towns, 97, 98

  percentage in agriculture, 565

  percentage in domestic service, 497

  percentage reading newspapers, 679

  percentage receiving poor relief, 481

  Roman Catholic, 318

  of seaside resorts, 680, 684

  seventeenth-century, 284

  sexual offences per capita, 339

  sixteenth-century towns, 233

  postal service, 353–4, 619

  prayers, communal daily, 640–41

  family, 259, 556, 619

  Fry’s chocolate works chapel, 576–7

  prayerbooks for maidservants, 514

  presents, 198, 208, 288

  prices, accommodation: Butlin’s Holiday Camp, 686

  eighteenth-century inns, 355

  fourteenth-century inns, 77

  lodging houses, 575, 634–5:seaside 684, 685

  shared beds, 378, 536

  alcohol: ale, 52, 240, 285

  beer, 376, 559

  gin, 378

  sack, 231

  whiskey, 613

  wine, 52, 77, 291

  amusements: admission to pleasure gardens, 363

  cinema tickets, 677

  Cook’s excursion, 683

  miracle plays, 92–3

  puppet shows, 423

  strolling players’ booths, 422

  theatre, 240, 245, 410, 411, 413, 628, 630–31, 632

  wireless licences, 678

  buildings: country houses, 555, 556

  Dickens’s houses, 611

  maintenance of Petre’s houses, 207

  modest houses, 336, 675

  Tivoli Music Hall, 630

  White Rock Pavilion, 684

  clothes: Duke of Bedford, 341

  scholars, 133

  shoes, 234

  education: charity schools, 275

  dame schools, 449

  Dissenting Academies fees, 462

  fines at Dissenting Academies, 462

  school fees, 118, 270–71, 272, 275, 453, 454

  study at Inns of Court, 137

  university, 118, 133, 458

  food, beef, 234, 290

  bread, 77, 477, 559, 571

  butter, 234, 290, 571

  bill at Red Lion, Cambridge, 293

  cheese, 285

  coffee, 291

  commons, 135

  cream, 290

  fish, 535

  fruit, 290–91

  inflation, 691

  meat, 77, 285, 572

  milk, 230, 559

  oysters, 291

  sugar, 571

  tea, 291, 362, 571, 572

  wheat, 479–80

  miscellaneous: animals, 67

  books, 216

  dentifrice, 442

  expense of entertaining Elizabeth I, 207

  Fleet marriages, 382

  fountain pens, 619

  fuel, 290

  inflation, 173, 691

  long-bow, 185

  pictures, 332

  postal service, 353

  prostitutes, 635

  quack remedies, 427, 428

  rents, 336

  scripts of plays, 246

  stonecutter’s bill, 333

  tobacco, 291

  turnpikes, 351, 352

  and wages, 254

  wool, 173 transport: carriage of Edward III, 69

  coach fares, 352, 354, 680

  crossing Humber, 77

  Electric Victoria, 659

  hire of carts, 70

  horses, 67

  motor-cars, 660, 677

  omnibus fares, 653

  railway fares, 651, 680

  underground fares, 658

  printing, 215–16

  prisons, agricultural rioters in, 491

  Borstal system, 670

  castellated buildings, 4

  child prostitute seeks imprisonment, 638, 639

  eighteenth-century, 666–7

  Fleet marriages, 382

  mediaeval, 144

  nineteenth-century, 667–70

  riot in Marshalsea, 422

  sanitary conditions, 580, 667–8

  Temple Bar, 87

  professions, women’s entry into, 703

  prostitutes, alehouse, 376–7

  Boswell with, 397–8

  brothels, 405–6

  cabdrivers and, 655

  case histories, 638–9

  children, 395, 635–7

  Contagious Diseases Acts, 639–40; ‘cross-biting’, 185

  dance halls and taverns, 622

  directories of, 407

  earnings, 240

  in eighteenth-century, 407

  expelled from Oxford, 125, 132

  gin and, 378

  mid nineteenth-century, 634–5

  music-halls, 630

  Pepys and, 402

  public concern over, 639

  theatre, 409, 414

  vagabonds, 180

  public health, see disease

  public houses, 377, 593, 700–701

  public schools (see also individual schools), 454–7

  First World War casualties, 690

  football, 623

  headmaster’s salary, 610

  Officers’ Training Corps, 690

  religious and moral principles, 640

  tenets taught, 640

  punishment and penalties, 142–8 passim

  capital, 379, 389, 661–3

  gibbeting, 663

  manor courts, 139

  pillory, 663

  transportation, 491, 492, 666

  under Puritana, 260–61

  Waltham Black Act, 360

  for: breaches of guild rules, 99

  breaking curfew, 74

  breaking sanctuary, 145

  consorting with gipsies, 180

  ejecting ballast, 71

  hawk theft, 61

  murder, 389

  road obstruction, 63–4

  sabbath breaking, 43

  serving meat in Lent, 175–6

  sexual offences, 28, 399, 400

  vagrancy, 182, 183

  of: actors, 246, 251, 260

  agricultural rioters, 491–2

  apprentices, 234

  army personnel, 672, 673–4

  Bethlehem Hospital patients, 160

  burgesses of Oxford, 134

  children, 112–15, 267, 393, 394

  Eton boys, 269

  factory workers, 475

  Gordon Rioters, 478

  Guy’s Hospital patients, 705

  Luddites, 486

  members of Inns of Court, 137

  miracle players, 92

  Norman minstrel, 94

  Oxford University students, 128–9, 130, 132, pirates, 231

  Prince of Wales, 394

  prisoners, 666, 668, 669

  recusants, 191

  reformatory inmates, 670

  schoolboys, 239, 269, 449, 455

  schoolmasters, 269

  suicides, 432

  traitors, 231

  whores and hangers-on, 76

  witches, 262–4

  wives, 107

  Puritans, 258

  Civil War, 253; ‘Dissenting Academies’, 272

  homosexuality, 400

  law under, 260

  marital sex, 401

  theatre, 247

  yeomen, 320

  quack doctors, see disease and medicine

  Ragley Hall, 323

  railways, accidents,
651

  amenities, 652

  avoidance of fares, 687

  benefits brought by, 648

  cheap day-tickets, 683

  demolition of housing, 647

  description of 1835 journey, 649–50

  fares, 651

  fortunes made in, 646

  government control of, 707

  investment in, 647

  lighting, 651–2

  navvies, 645–6

  speed, 649, 650

  strike, 695

  transport of goods, 648

  transport holidaymakers, 679–80

  travellers, 648–9

  underground, 657–8

  Raynham Hall, 323

  Reading, 51, 266, 300, 667

  Reformation, 186

  relics, holy, 80

  religion, Bible reading and religious controversy, 217

  books and periodicals, 625–6

  denominations in mid nineteenth-century, 641

  import in Victorian life, 640–41

  rents, Cambridge, 129

  controlled, 708, 709

  farm labourer’s cottage, 565

  inflation after Dissolution, 177

  private landlords, 676

  railways and London rents, 647

  slums, 336

  wages and, 491

  Repton School, 266

  rewards, factory workers’ bonuses, 475

  Riot Act, 455, 490

  riots, against draining fens, 254

  agricultural, 490–91

  attacks on turnpikes, 351

  Chartist, 494–5

  Cold Bath Fields, 665

  Evil May Day, 176

  following First World War, 695

  footmen at Ranelagh, 511

  Gordon Riots, 318, 478, 664, 667

  in late eighteenth-century, 478–80

  Luddism, 482–7

  Northamptonshire, 490

  at Oxford, 124–8

  Peasants’ Revolt, 36–8, 146

  price inflation, 691

  at public schools, 455–6

  rioters pull down workhouse, 493

  suppression of fairs, 422

  theatre audiences, 414–15

  in Tudor times, 176–7

  xenophobic, 690

  rivers, extension of navigable rivers, 467

  hazards of travel by, 71

  Humber crossing, 77

  pirates, 71

  river transport, 70–71, 86, 304

  Severn traffic, 284

  silting-up, 233

  Thames traffic, 300, 361

  road accidents, 677

  roads, eighteenth-century, 347–9, 352

  floods, 73

  mediaeval, 63–4

  repair and maintenance, 65–6

  sixteenth-century, 64–5

  Turnpike Trusts, 350–51

  Roman Catholicism, 187–92

  attendance at university, 279

  contraception, 702

  emancipation, 314

  exclusion from public office, 258

  Gordon Riots, 318, 478

  Irish immigration and, 641

  James II, 258

  Skinner and, 315

  Sydney Smith’s attitude to, 314

  toleration of, 318

  Rotherham School, 115, 120, 268

  royal households, 75–6

  Royal Lodge, The, 326

  Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 673, 674

 

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