A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (46 page)

Balfour, Arthur
30

Balmoral, Scotland
14
,
21
,
27
,
229

‘Balmoral’ tartan
11

Baptists
see
Nonconformists

Barnardo, Dr
xiv
,
48

Barry, Charles
78

baseball
275

bathrooms
95–6
,
101

Beatrice, Princess
9–10

Bedford Park, West London
102–3

Bedford School Mission
167

beef
52–3

Beeton, Mrs Isabella
59
,
64

Beeton, Samuel
293

Bell, Alexander Graham
xvii

Berthon, Reverend Edward
125

Besant, Annie
42

Besant, Walter
xii–xiii
,
xiv
,
xvii
,
110
,
309–10

bicycles
142–8

clothing
148–51

modern/‘safety’
151

Blackwell, Cumbria
106–8

Bloomer, Mrs Amelia
217

boarding houses
252

boating
255–7
,
271–2

Boer War
30
,
309
,
311
,
324
,
330–1
,
332–6

books
289–92

boys’
293–5

cookery
58–60
,
64
,
69

bookshops
291–2

Booth, Charles
47
,
243

Booth, William
xiv
,
47
,
166
,
186

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