A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (48 page)

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

prison
50–1

prostitution
40–1

public school/university sports
255
,
265–6
,
269
,
271–2
,
275–6

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
78–80

Punch
xxiv
,
40
,
46
,
53
,
99
,
205
,
286–8

punts
255–6

Puritan values
164–5

Pusey, Edward
159

‘quadricycles’
148

Queen Anne style
72
,
102–3

Rackham, Arthur
290

racquets
276

Ragged School movement
47–8

Raglan, Lord
312
,
314–15

Railway Act (1844)
117–18

railway bridges and viaducts
120

railway stations
120–1
,
124
,
209
,
291–2

railways
111
,
116–19

Channel Tunnel proposal
338

classes
122
,
140–1

foreign
121
,
124
,
259–60

line building
119–24

locomotives
122

royal travel by
16
,
18

seaside destinations
248

and shipping links
126

Tay Bridge collapse
161

transport of building materials
76

transport of food
56

underground
138–42

Rainhill trials, Liverpool
116

The Red House, Bexleyheath
104–5

Reed, Talbot Baines
xxi

Reform Bill (1832)
313

riots
73
,
161

refrigeration
57–8
,
69

Regency style

architecture
71
,
77
,
87
,
89
,
92
,
100

clothes
215
,
216
,
225
,
227

footwear
221
,
228

hats
229

republicanism
22–3
,
26

river-boating
255–7
,
271–2

road-building
112–13

Roberts, Lord (Lieutenant General)
30
,
322–3
,
325–6
,
333
,
334
,
335

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
104

Rourke’s Drift
328

Royal Family

clothes
16

German connections
2
,
9
,
15
,
24
,
25
,
30

private life
13–15

public life
16–21

use of motor cars
154

see also individual members

Royal Navy
297
,
307–9

Crimean War
313–14
,
315

guardians of Empire
305–6

modernization
339–40

steam boats/ships
125
,
309
,
339

threat of France
336–7

rugby
264
,
270–1

Rugby School
81
,
266
,
277

Rumford, Benjamin
58

Ruskin, John
71
,
81–2
,
104
,
107
,
233

Russell, Charles
182–3

Russell, Odo
338

Russell, William Howard
316

Sabbath
see
Sunday

sailing-ships
129–30
,
305
,
306

St Aubyn, Giles
28

Sala, George Augustus
83
,
85–6
,
188
,
213–14
,
224–5
,
226–7

Salisbury, Lord
27

Salomons, Sir David
152

Salvation Army
160
,
166

Samboume, Linley
288

Linley Sambourne House, Kensington
99–100
,
101

Sankey, Ira
189–90
,
191

Schlesinger, Arthur
74

Schlesinger, Max
83–5

science

and new technology
27

and religion
192–3

Scotland
161–2
,
194
,
252
,
253–4

Balmoral
14
,
21
,
27
,
229

Forth Bridge
120

golf
273

Highland troops
314
,
315
,
318–19

Presbyterian Church of
177–81

Sunday observance
177–8

Tay Bridge collapse
161

Scott, George Gilbert
81

Scott, M. H. Baillie
106–7
,
108

Scott, Sir Walter
88
,
91
,
104
,
294

screw propellers
125
,
127

sea bathing
247–8
,
249–50

Seacole, Mary
316

seaside
247–52

sermons
174–7
,
178
,
179

servants
44–6

and callers
202
,
204

‘emptying slops’
96

and family religious observance
172
,
187–8

former female
40–1

quarters
76
,
86–7

Sevastopol, siege of
313–14
,
318–19

sewage disposal and treatment
97

Shaftesbury, Lord
48

shawls
221

Shepard, Ernest
168
,
181
,
185
,
199

Shillibeer, George
132

shipbuilding industry
127
,
128

shorthand
241

shovel hats
230

Simpson, James
315

Sirius
(ship)
126

slavery
306

Smith, Francis Pettit
125

Smith, William Henry (W. H.)
291–2

smoking
199
,
216–17

Smollett, Tobias
258

snooker
274

social calls

gentlemen
203–6

ladies
196–9

social unrest
35
,
51
,
73
,
161
,
164

socialism
160

The Sphere
xxii

South Africa

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

Zulu War
328

Soyer, Alexis
59–60

spinsterhood and marriage
212–14

sports
247
,
263–5

army officers
324–5

character building
265–6

see also specific sports

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
66
,
162
,
175
,
176

squash
276

stage-coaches
see
coach travel

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster
175
,
181

steam boats/ships
124–9
,
263

naval
125
,
309
,
339

steam cars
151–2

steam trams
137

steam turbines
128

Stevenson, George
116

Stockton and Darlington railway
116

stovepipe hats
230–1

stoves
58

Strawberry Hill
78

street children
47–8
,
49

street vendors
66–9

Studd, Charles (C. T.)
191

Studd, Edward
190–1

Sudan
329–30
,
331–2

Sunday
161
,
170–4

charity work
168

edifying papers
288–9

at home
181–3

pastimes
183–5

Sunday Observance Acts (1677 and 1780)
161

Sunday Schools
173

swallow-tail coats
225
,
227

Taeping
(tea-clipper)
129–30

Tay Bridge collapse
161

Tayler, William
171–2
,
183
,
213

Taylor, Tom
233

tea
53
,
55
,
67

tea-clippers
129–30

telegraphs
27
,
121
,
129
,
240
,
315

telephones
27
,
240
,
242–3

Telford, Thomas
112

temperance movement
67
,
160

Temple Meads station, Bristol
120

Tenniel, John
288

tennis
264
,
274

terraces/town houses
74–6
,
82–6
,
98–9

Territorial Army
340

Thackeray, William Makepeace
62–3
,
287

‘ticket-of-leave’ prisoners
51

timekeeping

‘hora Inglese’
302

‘railway time’
121–2

Tissot, James
94

Tolstoy, Leo
318

top hats
230–1
,
232

trading links
301

tram systems
135–8

transport

commuting to work
131
,
233–4

leisure
253

see also specific forms

travel
247

cultural
253–5

foreign
257–63
,
296–7

Trevelyan, G. O.
22

Trevithick, Richard
116

tricycles
147–8

Trilby hats
230

trousers
225–6

Turbinia
(ship)
128

Turks/Ottoman Empire
306–7
,
313

‘two fingers’ greeting
198–9

typewriters
240–1
,
242–3

typhoid
20
,
22
,
97

underground railway system
138–42

United States
xx

baseball
275

bicycling
144

Civil War
242
,
339

Derby hat
231–2

food imports from
56
,
57–8
,
254

industrialization
303

missionaries
189–90

paddle-steamers
124–5

press
284

revival of boys’ books
295

as rival power
20
,
304–5
,
339

steamships crossing to
126
,
263

trams
135–6

Victoria Crosses (VC)
11
,
19
,
317
,
328
,
333

Victoria, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Duchess of Kent)
2–3
,
4
,
20

Victoria, Princess (‘Vicky’)
9
,
23–4
,
25
,
30

Victoria, Queen

accession to throne
2
,
4–5
,
16

appearance
5–6
,
17–18

attitude to motor cars
154

at Balmoral
14
,
21
,
27
,
229

birth
2–3

at Buckingham Palace
10
,
75
,
97

childhood and adolescence
3–4

children
9–10

see also individual entries

coin portraits
xviii–xix
,
16

coronation
6

death
30–1

diplomacy
12
,
13

Empress of India
24–5
,
299

first conflict of reign
311

flees London
13
,
73

at French Riviera
258

‘good works’
10

‘Grandmother of Europe’
24

humour and amusements
26–7

husband
see
Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

illnesses
22–3
,
30–1

Indian Mutiny
162
,
321

influence on hair styles
220

inspiration of Elizabeth I
4
,
7–8
,
19

intelligence
27–8

interest in science and technology
27

Mother of the Nation
28–31

names
1

naval songs collection
308

offers knighthood to George Peabody
36

ownership of
Life at the Seaside
(Frith)
248–9
,
250

phases of reign
xix-xx

public attitudes towards
22–3
,
28–9

publications
14