Victorian Turkish Baths
Publisher: Historic England
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Swindon, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781848022300
Table of contents: title: I.     Background to the Victorian Turkish bath; title: 1. Introduction: what is a Victorian Turkish bath?; title: 2. Early communal hot-air baths; title: 3. The British ‘discovery’ of the ‘Turkish’ bath; title: II.    Early history of the Victorian Turkish bath; title: 4. The birth of the Roman-Irish or Victorian Turkish bath; title: 5. David Urquhart, his Foreign Affairs Committees, and their baths; title: 6. Dr Richard Barter and the bath; title: 7. The Victorian Turkish bath travels overseas; title: 8. Building the Jermyn Street Hammam; title: 9. The Jermyn Street Hammam, 1862-1941; title: III.   Problems and attitudes; title: 10. Early problems and controversies; title: 11. 19th century attitudes to the Victorian Turkish bath; title: IV.   Victorian Turkish baths for all; title: 12. Ownership; title: 13. Housing the baths; title: 14. Commercial Turkish baths; title: 15. Municipal Turkish baths; title: 16. Turkish baths for the working classes; title: 17. The Turkish bath in the workhouse; title: 18. The Turkish bath in asylums; title: 19. The Turkish bath in hospitals; title: 20. The Turkish bath in hydros and hotels; title: 21. The Turkish bath in ‘members only’ clubs; title: 22. Turkish baths in private houses; title: 23. The Turkish bath at sea; title: 24. The portable Turkish bath; title: 25. Turkish baths for animals; title: V.    The world of the bather; title: 26. Victorian women and the Turkish bath; title: 27. Victorian Turkish baths: ‘sites of sex and sociability’?; title: 28. Inside the Victorian Turkish bath; title: 29. Advertising the Victorian Turkish bath; title: VI.   Victorian Turkish baths in the 21st century; title: 30. Victorian Turkish baths today and tomorrow