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

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by Christopher Hibbert


  Royal Navy, 283, 300

  Women’s Royal Naval Service, 708

  Royal Society, 256–7

  Rugby School, 454, 455, 456, 623, 640

  Sabbatarians, 642, 643

  St Albans, 118, 451

  St James’s Palace, 158, 195, 211

  St Paul’s Cathedral, 87

  St Paul’s School, 116, 117, 271, 453–4, 456

  Salford, 64a, 692

  Salisbury, 104, 160, 234, 300, 490

  Sandwich, 101, 271

  sanitation, close-stools, 200

  conditions in sweat-shops, 591

  country houses, 555

  and disease, 436

  evacuees’ ‘insanitary habits’, 698

  factory privy, 596

  London’s drainage system, 440

  mediaeval privy, 17

  in mediaeval towns, 102–3

  plague, 163

  prisons, 667–8

  privies in northern industrial towns, 569

  public health, 580, 707

  railway trains, 652

  satisfactory drainage, 676

  schoolboys’ urine, 117

  stool-house, 196

  urination in streets, 634

  water-cloaet, 200, 335

  Savoy Palace, 230

  Scarborough, 463, 679

  schoolmasters, seventeenth-century, 268–70

  schools (see also education and public schools), charity, 113, 266–7, 450–51

  classrooms, 272

  curriculum, 271, 274–5, 453

  dame schools, 448–9; ‘Dissenting Academies’, 272, 461–3

  fees, 270–71

  girls’ 272, 274–6, 450–51, 454

  grammar, 117, 118, 239, 266, 453

  holidays, 271

  in Middle Ages, 113–18

  private, 454

  Sunday, 452–3

  sculpture, 324

  seaside resorts, accommodation, 682–6 postim; amenities, 684

  bathing, 679, 681–2, 685

  cheap public transport, 679–80

  entertainments, 681

  population growth, 684

  socially differing, 680–81

  servants, accommodation in sixteenth century, 196

  compensations for low wages, 503, 506

  duties of domestics, 498–503 passim

  food, 503–4, 505

  gaming houses, 374

  in holy orders, 39

  literacy, 122

  maids travel by train, 685–6

  in mediaeval household, 5, 6, 12–13

  monastic, 47, 49

  mop fairs, 498

  nomenclature, 508

  numbers employed by various social classes, 496–7

  percentage of population in domestic service, 497

  perquisites, 509

  at Restoration theatre, 410

  royal progresses, 207

  savings, 512

  seduction, 640

  sleeping arrangements, 17–18, 77, 196

  servants’ hall, 323

  social hierarchy, 310, 497–500, 504, 508–9

  thrashed, 107

  vails, 509–11, 512

  wages, 178, 204, 474, 503, 513, 697

  in household of: Bedford, 290, 293

  Belvoir Castle, 501–2

  Carlyle, 505–6

  Holkham Hall, 502

  Ingatcstone Hall, 204–5; Pepys, 403–4

  Petre, 207

  royal, 75

  Ruskin, 643

  types of: butler, 324

  chambermaids, 17, 354

  footmen, 324

  general maidservants, 513–14

  governesses, 392

  nursemaids, 392

  reeves, 22

  wet-nurses, 387, 392

  Sevenoaks, 117, 118, 120

  sex (see also prostitutes), adultery, 85

  birth control, 386, 398–9, 701, 702

  Borstal boys. 670

  coalminers, 586

  condoms, 397–8

  criminal activities, 399–400

  First World War and sexual behaviour, 701

  and health, 401

  homosexuality, 405–6, 666

  masturbation, 399, 634

  men and, 633; My Secret Lift, 635

  punishment for sexual offences, 28

  seduction of maidservants, 640

  seventeenth and eighteenth century attitudes to, 400–401

  Victorian attitude to promiscuity, 640

  women and, 633

  Shadwell Park, 555

  Sheffield, cutlers, 284

  Defoe on, 302

  foundries, 467, 473

  John Brown and Company, 595

  music halls, 630

  Woodhead Tunnel, 646

  shipbuilding, 473, 698

  shipping, see mercantile marine

  shops, assistants, 520–21

  Boot’s Chemists, 678

  chain stores, 699

  chandlers, 521

  cookahops, 523, 524

  credit, 518, 519

  department stores, 520

  eighteenth-century London, 515–16

  First World War, 691–2

  fixed prices, 518

  Harrods, 550, 619, 707

  Marks and Spencer, 699

  price tags, 520

  rag and bottle shops, 522–3

  sale of spectacles, 707

  smashed and looted, 695

  tradesmen’s signs and emblems, 516–17

  village, 518

  wages, 697

  W. H. Smith’s railway bookstalls, 651

  work in, 513

  working conditions, 520

  Shrewsbury School, foundation, 266

  fees, 271

  flogging, 239

  football, 623

  foundation, 266

  peers’ sons, 456

  Sidney at, 464

  signs and emblems, tradesmen’s 516–17

  slaves, 182

  slums, 336, 569–70, 676, 698

  smoking, see tobacco

  smuggling, 306, 361–2

  social hierarchy, after Black Death, 35

  artisans, 487

  church worship and, 641

  Civil War and, 254–5

  clergy, 310–11

  cricket, 371

  Cromwell wishes to preserve, 254

  Defoe’s classification, 308

  landed nobility, 308–10

  landowners, farmers and smallholders, 563

  marriage, 384, 385mobility within, 310, 556; nouveaux riches, 310

  number of servants, 496–7

  professions, 605–6

  Restoration theatre, 410

  sixteenth-century, 225–7

  social climbing, 567

  squires, 318–20

  squires’ servants, 496

  tenant farmers, 321

  yeomen, 320

  social reform, demands for, 694, 695

  societies, cultural, 622

  Society of Apothecaries, 703

  Somerset House, 220

  Southampton, declining prosperity, 233

  paviour, 103

  priory, 51

  public latrines, 103

  railway, 645, 648

  stone houses, 101–2

  university, 694

  water supply, 103

  Southend, 679, 684, 685

  sports, angling, 211

  animal baiting, 210, 241, 366–7, 368

  in army, 674

  bowls, 211

  boxing. 364–6

  cock-fighting, 367

  cock-throwing, 368

  cricket, 211–12, 370–72

  croquet, 625

  fencing, 197

  fishing, 359–60

  football, 212–13, 370, 623–5

  golf, 625

  hare-coursing, 211

  hawking, 61, 211, 359

  hunting, 60–61, 208, 210, 358–9

  Laudian Code, 281

  mediaeval, 58


  Newmarket races, 306

  pigeon-flying, 621

  prize-fights, 623

  proscribed at Universities, 279

  racing, 368–9

  shooting, 359

  tennis, 211, 625

  tilting, 59, 231

  under Puritans, 260

  wrestling, 58

  staircases, 323, 325

  Stanton Harcourt, 5

  Stokesay Castle, 4

  Stourbridge Fair, 105, 306, 345

  Stowe, 324, 327, 555

  Strawberry Hill, 497, 511

  street vendors, 525–6, 529–31

  strikes, 495, 568, 694, 696

  suffrage, 494, 693

  suicide, 373, 431–2, 662, 668

  Sunday Schools, 452, 622, 683

  Sundays, at Blenheim, 545

  Bournemouth, 681

  navvies work on, 646

  seaside, 685

  Victorian 642–3

  sweat-shops, 591–2

  taverns, 523, 622

  taxes, death duties, 695

  hair powder, 340

  income, 695

  newspaper, 627

  poll, 36, 38

  rates, 675

  spirits, 380

  tolls charged ‘by cartload’, 69

  turnpikes, 350–51

  teeth, decay widespread, 707

  dental profession, 446–7

  false, 343, 427, 445–6

  hygiene, 442–3

  masticators, 444–5

  sale of, 444

  tooth-drawers, 441

  treatment, 442, 443–4

  theatre (see also cinema), actors, 245–7, 260, 419–20, 421, 550

  amateur theatricals, 674

  behaviour of audiences, 411, 414–18

  Boswell at, 416

  censorship, 411, 413

  circus, 424–5

  costume, 419

  Covent Garden, 408, 411, 416, 418

  eighteenth-century, 412–14

  first London theatres, 243–4

  Garrick’s influence on, 418–19

  managers, 420, 421

  miracle plays, 90–93

  mumming plays, 93

  music halls, 629–31, 681

  nativity plays, 89–90

  orange-girls, 287

  pantomime, 413

  penny gaffs, 529

  prices, 410, 411

  private theatres, 244–5

  provincial, 419–20, 632

  puppet shows, 422–3

  reform, 411–12

  Restoration, 408–10

  royal patents, 408, 412, 419

  shut by plague, 246, 247

  sixteenth-century, 240–49

  strolling players, 180, 419–22passim; suppressed, 249–51

  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 408–10 passim, 412, 416– 18 passim, 424

  Theobalds, 199, 207–8

  thief-takers, 663

  thieves, see criminals

  Thoresby Hall, 504

  tips, vails, 509–11, 512

  tobacco, alehouses, 377

  cigar-smoking, 554;

  cost, 291

  expenditure on, 699

  price, 559

  Prince of Wales, 542, 553

  Queen Victoria dislikes, 553–4

  smoking rooms, 553–5

  smuggling, 361, 362

  trade, 291–2

  women smokers, 692, 699

  Tolpuddle Martyrs, 492

  tommy shops, 487, 646

  tools (see also utensils), brewing, 53

  coalmining, 585

  dental instruments, 442

  farming, 173, 559

  hiring charges, 592

  mop fairs, 307, 498

  navvies, 645

  tournaments, 84–6

  Tower of London, 36, 37

  towns, industrial, 473–4, 568–70

  mediaeval 97–104

  nineteenth-century migration to, 568

  small provincial, 473

  Sundays in provincial, 642–3

  toys, 394

  trade, cloth, 302–3

  cotton, 303

  distributive trades’ employees, 699

  fourteenth-century, 98

  guilds, 99

  prosperity, 467

  slave, 284, 466

  slump, 698–9

  tobacco, 291–2

  wool, 31, 34, 98, 173, 254

  trade unions, agricultural, 564, 565

  Chartism and, 494

  Combination Acts, 480, 482

  early, 492

  First World War, 691, 694

  membership, 694

  militancy, 695

  outings organized, 622

  Tolpuddle Martyrs, 492

  Tranby Croft, 556

  transport (see also railways and travel), bicycles, 658–9

  cabmen, 655

  cabriolets, 655–6

  carriages, 68–9

  carting, 290

  carts, 69–70, 74, 231

  coaches, 347, 348, 352

  eighteenth-century, 352

  fares, 352

  General Strike, 696

  growlers, 656

  hackney coaches, 655

  hansom cabs, 656

  holidays and cheap public transport, 679

  horse, 67–8, 69, 303

  litters, 68

  mail-coaches, 352–3, 354

  motor-cars, 659–60, 677

  omnibuses, 643, 652–5 passim, 660, 692

  post-chaise, 314, 352

  Queen Anne’s hunting carriage, 359

  river, 70–71, 86, 304

  sedan chairs, 294, 500

  in sixteenth-century London, 231–2

  stage-coaches, 680

  steamboats, 679

  Sunday, 643

  taxicabs, 656

  traffic jam, 652

  tramcars, 656–7

  transport workers strike, 695

  trolley-buses, 657

  travel, alehouses, 79

  dangers of, 72–4

  eighteenth-century, 347, 352

  inns, 77–8

  in large parties, 74

  mail-coach, 354

  pilgrims, 79–80

  railway opens opportunity for, 648

  rich households, 76–7

  royal household, 75–6

  servants and masters, 507

  by train, 649–50

  trees, 198, 254, 329–30

  truck system, 587, 646

  Tunbridge Wells, 294, 295

  turnpikes, 350–52 umbrellas, 342–3

  unemployment, agriculture, 469, 490, 564

  between First and Second World Wars, 695, 696–7, 699

  early nineteenth-century, 489

  fear of, 592

  seventeenth-century, 284

  sheep farming, 173

  in Tudor times, 176, 177, 178

  unemployment benefit, 696–7

  universities (see also education, Cambridge and Oxford), 458–61

  age of students on entry, 135

  begging scholars, 183

  curriculum in eighteenth century, 458

  duration of courses, 134–5

  expense, 133–4

  football, 623

  medicine, 155, 157

  Officer Training Corps, 690

  poor scholars, 134, 135, 277–8

  theology, 136

  utensils (see also tools), drinking, 11, 376

  kitchen, 336

  mediaeval cottagers’ domestic, 19

  mediaeval dining, 5, 6, 13, 133

  roasting jack, 523–4

  table silver, 202, 285

  washing, 132

  vagabonds, criminals, 179–80, 184–5

  Dissolution of Monasteries, 179

  enlistment in army, 671, 672

  legislation, 182–3, 185

  number in seventeenth-century, 255

  punishment, 182, 183

  roaming, 179–80

  skills and tricks, 181

  Statute of
Liveries responsible for, 178

  at theatre, 240, 242

  vermin, 335, 355, 403, 573, 595

  vineyards, 11, 200

  visiting cards, 614–15

  Vyne, the, 197

  Wadley, 201

  wages and salaries, between First and Second

  World Wars, 694, 697, 698

  Chartists’ demands, 494

  Combination Acts, 480

  fee for inoculation, 433

  fixed rates, 176

  increase during First World War, 691

  inequality between men’s and women’s, 704

  inflation after Black Death, 34

  Luddism and, 484

  paid in food and drink, 53

  perquisites supplement, 468, 472

  Poor Law. Amendment Act, 492

  prices and, 254

  riots over, 490–91

  Royal Commission on Equal Pay, 709

  seventeenth-century, 255, 257–8, 284–5

  Tolpuddle Martyrs, 492

  in various trades and professions: actors, 91, 246, 420, 421, 631

  agriculture, 177–8, 471, 558, 559, 562, 563, 564, 565, 697

  army, 672

  chain- and nail-making, 587

  children at industrial charity schools, 451

  children in pottery factories, 594

  chimney sweeps, 596

  clergy, 192–3, 310–11, 312, 608

  clerks, 609

  clothworkers, 482

  coalminers, 468, 585, 587

  costermongers’ earnings, 528–9

  domestic servants, 503, 505, 512, 513, 612

  dentists, 446

  eighteenth century labourers, 472

  factory workers, 699

  footballers, 624

  framework knitters, 483

  hired labourers, 177–8

  household staff at Woburn, 290

  lead miners, 305

  male manual workers, 684

  mediaeval doctors, 150

  mediaeval peasants, 27, 28, 31

  messengers, 68

  Metropolitan Police, 664–5

  miners, 699

  minstrels, 95

  navvies, 645

  nineteenth century London labouring classes, 571–2

  paviour, 103

  Pepys, 285

  porters, 70

  pottery workers, 699

  Prince Regent’s chef, 499

  prostitutes, 409, 638

  Sarah Mapp, 429

  schoolmasters and tutors, 119–20, 268, 451

  shop assistants, 520

  sixteenth-century workers, 234

  Sydney Smith, 312

  tailoring sweat-shop workers, 592

  water-cress seller, 530

  weavers and knitters, 577

  whipping boy, 113

  women labourers, 468

  Wakefield, 91, 302, 304, 670

  Walsingham, 80, 110, 111

  Wanstead, 324

  Wardour Old Castle, 195

  Warwick Castle, 512

  watch and ward, 100, 101

  water supply, Chester, 300

  disease, 436, 440

  drinking, 288

  and health standards, 707

  house sites, 332

  Ingatestone, 205

  London slums, 573

  mediaeval, 103

  north London, 231

  piped, 676

  pollution, 165

 

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