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VICTORIAN DICTIONARY (for drop-down menu and main site CLICK HERE)

ADVERTISING

- 'advertising'
- 'advertising in excelsis'
- beauticians
- bill-posting
- carpet-sweeper
- dentistry (advertisement, 1893)
- hairdressers
- 'how we advertise now'
- pills
- portrait photography
- 'puff and push'
- sandwich men
- skin cream
- small ads
- soap powder
- street advertising
- on tradesmen's vehicles
- washing machines

ARCHITECTURE

- sights in London
- stucco

see also Buildings, Monuments and Museums

BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS AND MUSEUMS

see also Entertainment - Museums
see also Entertainment - Theatre - Theatres and Venues
see also Religion - passim, for smaller Churches &c.

- Abbey Mills Pumping Station
- Albert Gate
- Albert Hall
- Albert Memorial
- Aldgate Pump
- Alexandra Palace
- Apsley House (1) (2)
- Bank of England
- Barbers' Hall
- Bethnal Green Museum
- Buccleuch House
- Bridgewater House
- British Museum
- Brompton Oratory
- Buckingham Palace
- Burlington House
- Carlton House Terrace
- The Central Synagogue
- Chapel Royal, Savoy
- Charterhouse
- Cleopatra's Needle
- Coal Exchange
- Congress Hall, Clapton
- Corn Exchange
- Crosby Place
- Crossness Pumping Station
- Crystal Palace
- Custom House
- Devonshire House (1) (2)
- Dorchester House
- Duke of Wellington's Statue
- Duke of York's Column
- Euston Arch
- Exeter 'Change
- Exeter Hall
- Fulham Palace
- The Great Wheel at Earl's Court
- Greenwich Observatory
- Grosvenor House (1) (2)
- Guildhall
- Hall of Commerce
- Holland House (1) (2)
- Holly Lodge, Kensington
- Hop Exchange, Southwark
- Horse Guards
- Houses of Parliament
- Hyde Park Corner (Wellington Arch & Statue)
- Kensington Town Hall and Public Library
- Kensington Palace
- Lambeth Palace
- Lansdowne House
- The London Stone
- Mansion House
- Marble Arch
- Marlborough House
- The Metropolitan Tabernacle
- Millais's House
- The Monument
- National Gallery
- Nelson's Column
- New Scotland Yard
- Obelisk, Blackfriars Road
- Old Water Gate
- Post Office
- The Priory (George Eliot's house)
- Public Record Office
- Royal Courts of Justice
- Royal Exchange
- Royal Mint
- Royal United Service Institute
- St. Bartholomew's
- St. George's Cathedral
- St James's Hall
- St. James's Palace
- St. John's Gate
- St. Joseph's Retreat
- St. Mary-le-Bow
- St. Pancras Church
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- St. Saviour's (Southwark Cathedral)
- Somerset House
- South Kensington Museum
- Stafford House (1) (2)
- statues, list of
- statue of Lord Beaconsfield
- statue of King William IV
- statue of Lord Strathnairn
- statue of Queen Victorian, Kensington Gdns.
- statue of Richard I.
- Stock Exchange
- Temple Bar (1) (2)
- Temple Chapel
- Tower of London
- Trinity House
- Union Chapel
- Westminster Abbey
- Westminster Hall
- Whitehall

CHARITIES

- Adult Orphan Institution
- Alexandra Orphanage
- Association for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity
- 'Asylum for the Houseless Poor'
- Barnardo's
- Baylis's cook-shop
- British and Foreign Sailors' Society
- Cabmen's Shelters Fund
- Charity Organisation Society (1) (2)
- a 'Charity Dinner' (1) (2)
- 'Charitable Gambling'
- Chichester Training Ship
- 'The City Inquest for the Poor'
- Deaf and Dumb Asylum
- Destitute Children's Dinner Society
- Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society
- Female Orphan Asylum
- Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution
- Field Lane Refuge
- Guardian Society Asylum
- Home for Convalescents
- Home for Friendless Young Women of Good Character
- Homes for Working Girls in London
- 'House of Charity', Greek St.
- Infant Home
- Infant Orphan Asylum
- Institution for the Houseless Poor
- list of Charities
- list of Friendly and Benevolent Societies
- list of some orphanages
- list of Philanthropic Societies
- London Cottage Mission
- London Orphan Asylum
- Marine Society
- Medland Hall
- Mendicity Society
- Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum
- Montagu Williams' 'Clothing Depot'
- Newport Market Refuge (1) (2)
- Orphan Working School
- Parochial Mission Women's Association
- pro forma letters requesting charity
- raffles (amongst costermongers)
- Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children
- Royal Literary Fund
- Sailors' Home
- St. Andrew's Home and Club for Working Boys
- St. Katherine's Hospital
- Salvation Army
- Scottish Hospital
- 'Sick Kitchen'
- Society for the Relief of Distress
- South London Night Refuge
- Stockwell Orphanage
- Surgical Aid Society
- The St. Marylebone Female Protection Society
- Theatrical Funds
- Woodhouse, Wanstead
- Y.M.C.A. (Young Men's Christian Association)
- Y.W.C.A (Young Women's Christian Association)

see also London : a Pilgrimage - click here
see also Religion - Missions

CHILDHOOD

Babies

- clothing
- Mother and baby advice
- skin-care

Children

- boy thieves (1) (2)
- children arriving at school
- children going to work
- children in hospital
- children in prison
- children looking after other children
- children selling goods on the street
- clothing advice
- discipline
- 'Harry and Tommy'
- 'Household Law - Parent and Child'
- poor children
- recommended food for children
- 'street arabs' and 'ragamuffins'
- value of play-time

Children's Homes, Orphanages and Day-care/Creches

- Alexandra Orphanage
- Chichester Training Ship
- creches
- Dr. Stephenson's Children's Home
- Field Lane Refuge
- Infant Home
- Infant Orphan Asylum
- list of some orphanages
- London Orphan Asylum
- Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum
- Newport Market Refuge (1) (2)
- Orphan Working School
- Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children
- Royal Caledonian Asylum
- Royal Military Asylum
- St. Andrew's Home and Club for Working Boys
- Stockwell Orphanage
-Woodhouse, Wanstead

Schools

- education of working men's children
- infant schools for the poor
- see also Education

Toys

- advertisements
- buying toys
- flags
- toy shops

CLOTHING

- bloomerism
- clerks' clothing
- clothing of the poor/working class
- clothing and health
- 'Clothing for Infants'
- collars
- 'confinement belts'
- corsets
- crinolines
- drawers
- dress and social status
- dress of costermongers
- dressing appropriately
- examples of clothing
- female fashion, 1863 (Madame Patti)
- garters
- gloves
- hair-care
- hats (men)
- hats (women)
- hats of East End women
- how to take care of furs, feathers and wool
- how to take care of jewellery
- how to clean materials
- length of skirts
- 'making-up'
- male and female clothing, 1885
- male and female clothing, 1895 (formal) (click here for original picture)
- ostrich feathers, popularity of
- second-hand
- shoes and boots
- stockings
- the 'swell'
- 'underclothing'

see also Professions - Clothing
see also Weather - Mud

COMMUNICATIONS

Post

- delivery times and postal regulations
- frequency of deliveries
- General Post Office
- the postal system

Telegraph

- description
- laying the Atlantic Cable
- pictures by telegraph
- 'telegraph instrument galleries'
- telegraph offices

Telephone

- description
- demonstration of

CRIME

Baby-Farming

see The Seven Curses of London, Chpt.3

Beggars and Vagrants

- beggars
- begging-letter writers
-'the deplorable dodge'
- The Mendicity Society
- pavement chalkers
-'regular thieves'
- vagrancy
- vagrants in Hyde Park

- see also The Seven Curses of London, Chpt 13-15

Burglary

- burglars (in 'Round London')
- burglars (in 'London Labour')
- fear of
- prevention

Con-men

- auction-rigging
- card-sharps
- the 'established business' swindle
- horse makers
- pawners
- sham-indecent literature
- as street-traders
- thimble-rigging

Gambling

see Entertainment - Gambling

Poisoning

- poisons

Pornography

- Society for the Suppression of Vice

Prostitution

- attitudes towards
- brothels and accomodation
- causes of prostitution
- classes of prostitutes
- dress lodgers
- East End prostitutes
- first person accounts
- flower-girls
- numbers of prostitutes
- prostitution as 'transitory state'
- regulation of prostitution
- reform of prostitutes
- 'The Road to Ruin'
- 'seduction'
- 'seeing gentlemen'
- see Female Preventive and Reformatory Inst.
- see The Seven Curses of London, Chpt 16-19
- see The St. Marylebone Female Protection Society
- see Tiger Bay
- see also Argyll Rooms
- see also Cremorne Gardens
- see also Dancing Rooms
- see also Haymarket
- see also Music Halls - Prostitution
- see also Venereal Disease

Suicide

- drowning
- in Hyde Park
- legal proceedings

Thieves

- see The Seven Curses of London, Chpt 7-8
- boy thieves
- Carriage Thieves
- child pickpockets/thieves
- dog stealers
- fences
- pickpockets
- shoplifting
- thieves in Hyde Park

Violence and Assaults

- 'Jack the Ripper'
- 'the man-basher'
- representations of

- see also Police and Policing
- see also Prisons and Penal System
- see also Words - Criminal Slang

DATES AND EVENTS

- chronology
- Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

DEATH AND DYING

Advertisements

- Coffins

Cemeteries, Burial Grounds, Vaults

- a list of cemeteries
- Abney Park
- Bunhill Fields
- Brompton
- Enon Chapel
- Highgate
- Kensal Green
- Nunhead
- overcrowding
- Tower Hamlets
- West Norwood

Customs

- awaiting Burial

Funerals

- poor child's funeral

Overcrowding

- 'Burials in London' (c.1851)

Representation of

- 'Fading away' (photo)

DISEASE

- cholera
- diahorrea
- disease caused by smoking
- disinfectors
- influenza
- measles
- 'miasma' and smell
- pneumonia
- the poor as source of disease
- scarlatina
- smallpox
- 'spermatorrhoea'
- tuberculosis / TB / consumption
- typhus
- venereal disease
- whooping cough

see also Health and Hygiene

DISTRICTS

and association with professions

Areas of London

- Acton
- Adelphi Arches
- Agar Town
- The Almonry
- Angel, Islington
- Barnes
- Barnet
- Bayswater
- Beckenham
- Beckton
- Belgravia
- Bermondsey
- Bethnal Green
- Blackheath
- Blackwall
- Bloomsbury
- Borough
- Bromley
- Brompton
- Brookwood
- Broxbourne
- Camden Town
- Canning Town
- Carshalton
- Caterham
- Charing Cross
- Cheam
- Chelsea
- Chigwell
- Chiselhurst
- Chiswick
- City of London - see Organisations
- Clapham
- Clerkenwell
- Colney Hatch
- Croydon
- Dulwich
- Duchy of Lancaster
- Ealing
- East End, by the river
- Edgware
- Edmonton
- Eel Pie Island
- Elephant and Castle
- Eltham
- Enfield
- Epping
- Greenwich
- Hounslow
- Hyde Park Corner
- Isle of Dogs
- Islington
- Kensington
- Kew
- Kilburn
- Knightsbridge
- Leicester Square
- Lincoln's Inn Fields
- Little Britain
- Mayfair
- Notting Hill
- Oxford (Regent) Circus
- Paddington
- Palmer's Village
- Peckham
- Pentonville
- Primrose Hill
- Ratcliff Cross
- Richmond
- Russell Square
- Saffron Hill
- Seven Dials and St.Giles's
- Shadwell
- Sloane Square
- Somers Town
- Spitalfields (1) (2)
- 'Squalors' Market'
- St. John's Wood
- Stoke Newington
- Strand-on-the-Green
- Tiger Bay
- Trafalgar Square
- Tyburnia
- Whitechapel
- Woolwich

Character of particular streets

- Adelphi Terrace
- The Albany
- Baker Street
- Bond Street
- Brompton Road
- Cannon Street
- Cato Street
- Chancery Lane
- Cheapside
- Cheyne Walk
- Commercial Road
- Cornhill
- Crooked Lane
- Cutler Street
- Drury Lane
- Edgware Road
- Euston Road
- Farringdon Street
- Fleet Street
- Gravel Lane
- Gray's Inn Lane
- Hatton Garden and Ely Place
- Haymarket
- Holborn
- Holywell Street
- Ludgate Hill
- Lumber Court
- Mansion House Street
- The Mall
- Mile End Road
- Monmouth Street
- New Bridge Street, Blackfriars
- New Cut
- Newgate Street
- New Road
- Northumberland Avenue
- Old Bailey
- Oxford Street
- Pall Mall
- Park Lane
- Paternoster Row
- Perkins's Rents
- Piccadilly (and Circus)
- Porridge Island
- Portugal Street
- Queen Victoria Street
- Ratcliff Highway
- Regent Circus
- Regent Street
- St. James's Street
- St. Martin's-le-Grand
- St. Paul's Churchyard
- Sclater Street
- Shaftesbury Avenue
- Strand
- Uxbridge Road
- Victoria Street
- Waterloo Place (1) (2)
- Wentworth Street
-Westminster Bridge Road
- Whitehall

see also Markets
see also Sanitary Ramblings for streets in Bethnal Green

EDUCATION

Education for the Poor

- Blind School
- Board Schools
- curriculum at orphanages (1) (2) (3) (4)
- night schools
- The People's Palace
- Ragged Schools
- School Board Visitors
- Toynbee Hall
- working girls clubs
- 'The Working Man's Education'
- working mens clubs

Educational Societies

- Educational Societies, list of

Libraries and Reading Rooms

- Augener & Co.'s Universal Circulating Music Library
- circulating libraries
- Lewis's Medical and Scientific Library
- list of reading rooms
- The London Institution
- The London Library
- Mitchell's Royal Library
- The People's Palace (1) (2)
- Rolandi's Foreign Subscription Library
- Russell Institution
- Sion College
- Dr. Williams's Library

Professional / Technical Colleges / Institutions

- Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
- Art Training School (National)
- The Central Institution (1885-93)
Central Technical College (1893-1911)
- City and Guilds of London Institute for
the Advancement of Technical Education (1878)
- City of London College
- College of Preceptors
- cookery schools
- Imperial Institute
- London Institution
- Mechanics' Institute (1823)
- National Training School for Music
- The People's Palace
- Polytechnic Institution, Regent St
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Royal Academy of Music
- Royal College of Chemistry (1845)
- Royal College of Music (1) (2)
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Science
- Royal Indian Engineering College
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Royal School of Mines (1851)
- School of Design
- South London Technical Art School

Schools

- Bedford College for Ladies
- Bluecoat School, Tothill Fields
- Christ's Hospital
- City of London School
- Duke of York's School
- Dulwich College
- Green Coat Hospital, Tothill Fields
- Greycoat Hospital, Tothill Fields
- Guildhall School of Music
- King's College School
- Mercers' School
- Merchant Taylors' School
- North London Collegiate School
- Private Schools
- Royal Naval School
- St. Paul's School
- Westminster School

see also Education of the Poor above
see also London School Board
and 'The Scholars Handbook of Household Management and Cookery'

Universities

- Gresham College
- King's College
- Queen's College
- University College
- University College School
- University of London

for Museums, see also Buildings, Monuments and Museums
& Entertainment - Museums

ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION

Assembly Rooms

- Almack's

Ballooning

- experiences of

Clubs

- Albemarle Club
- Alfred Club 1808
- Army and Navy Club1848
- Arthur's Club?1750s
- Arts Club 1863
- Athenaeum 1824
- Badminton Club
- Beaconsfield Club
- Beefsteak Club
- Berkeley Club
- Boodle’s Club
- Brooks’s Club
- Burlington Fine Arts Club
- Carlton Club 1832
- Chandos Club
- character and dangers of clubs
- City Carlton Club
- City Liberal Club
- City of London Club 1833
- Cobden Club
- Cocoa Tree Club
- Conservative Club
- The Constitutional Club
- County Club
- Crichton Club
- Crockford's
- Devonshire Club
- Doric Club
- East India United Service Club
- Erectheum Club
- Eton and Harrow Club
- Excelsior Working Men's Club
- Free Trade Club
- Garrick 1831
- German Athenaeum 1869
- Grafton Club
- Green Room Club
- Gresham Club 1843
- Guards' Club
- Hanover Square Club
- Hogarth Club
- Hurlingham Club
- Isthmian Club 1882
- Junior Army and Navy Club
- Junior Athenaeum Club
- Junior Carlton
- Junior Conservative Club 1889
- Junior Constitutional Club 1887
- Junior Garrick Club
- Junior Oxford and Cambridge Club
- Junior United Services Club
- Marlborough Club
- National Club
- National Liberal Club 1887
- National Sporting Club 1891
- Naval and Military Club
- New University Club
- Oriental Club 1824
- Orleans Club
- Oxford and Cambridge Club 1838
- Pall Mall Club
- Parthenon Club
- Portland Club
- Pratt's Club
- Raleigh Club
- Ranelagh Club
- Reform Club 1832
- Road Club
- Rous Club
- Russell Club
- St. George's Club
- St. James Club
- St. Stephen's Club
- Savage Club 1837
- Savile Club
- Scandinavian Club
- Scientific Club
- Smithfield Club
- Temple Club
- Thatched House Club
- Tower Hamlets Liberal Club
- Travellers Club 1829
- Turf Club
- Union Club 1824
- United Club
- United Eton and Harrow Club
- United Service Club 1816
- United University Club 1826
- United Whist Club
- University and Public Schools Club
- Verulam Club
- Victoria Club
- Wanderers' Club
- Westminster Club
- White Friar's Club
- Whitehall Club
- White's Club
- Windham Club 1828
- Working Men's Clubs(see also Education)

Dancing

- Argyll Rooms (see also dancing rooms below)
- at Almack's
- a bal masqué
- costermongers dancing
- dancing academies
- dancing rooms
- 'The Dancing Saloon'
- hops

Drinking and Drugs

- Brandy

- brandy and soda

- Gin

- effects of
- gin palaces
- gin-shops

- Hangover cures

- Opium

- Opium dens
- see also Tiger Bay

- Public Houses

- Albion Tavern
- Angel, Islington
- The Belvidere
- The "Blue Dog"
- character of
- The Cheshire Cheese
- The Cock Tavern
- Coger's Hall
- Crown and Anchor
- The Eagle
- Elephant and Castle
- hiring and paying working men at public houses
- in the East End
- George Inn, Borough
- illegal drinking
- London Tavern
- The Ship
- Thatched House Tavern
- Three Nuns Inn

- Temperance Movement

- meetings
- opinions of
- 'Pewkers' Hall'

see also Food and Drink - Night Houses ...

Exhibitions and Tourism

- Earls Court

- Great Exhibition

- perception of
- sellers of postcards
see also Buildings - Crystal Palace
see also food sold at Crystal Palace

- Sight-seeing

- an American visitor
- 'sight-seeing'
- trooping the guard

Fairs and Events

- Barnet Fair
- Bartholomew Fair
- county fairs outside London
- Greenwich Fair
- Lord Mayor's Show
- May-Fair

Freak Shows

- Bill Holland
- East End shows (1) (2)
- at Greenwhich Fair

Gambling

- amongst the poor
- gambling houses
- at Greenwich Fair
- see Sketches in London, Chpt. XI
- see The Seven Curses of London, Chpt.22
- see Round London, Pt2. Chpt. XI

Gardens and Spas

- Bagnigge Wells Gardens
- Botanical Garden, Chelsea
- Botanical Society Gardens (Regent's Park)
- Cremorne Gardens
- The Eagle
- Earl's Court gardens
- Embankment Gardens
- Islington Spa
- Kensington Gardens
- Kew Gardens
- North Woolwich Gardens
- Royal Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick
- Surrey Zoological Gardens
- Tea Gardens, character of
- Temple Gardens
- Vauxhall Gardens
- White Conduit House

Holidays

- Christmas in 1851
- Christmas in London (1)
- Christmas in London (2)
- the Christmas tree
- cost of exursions
- 'Excursion Clubs'
- need for
- November 5th
- "Saint Monday"
- Sunday outings - tourist agencies
- Sundays in the East End (1) (2)
- Valentine's Day
- 'Working Men's Saturdays'

see also Sea-Side, below

Museums, Public Buildings and Galleries

(see also Buildings, Monuments and Museums)

- Adelaide Gallery
- Antiquarian Museum
- Architectural Museum
- artists
- British Artists (Exhibition)
- British Institution
- British Museum
- The Chinese Collection
- Christy Collection
- City Art Gallery & Museum
- The Colosseum
- The Cosmorama
- Dr Kahn's Grand Anatomical Museum
- Doré Gallery
- Dudley Gallery
- Dulwich Gallery
- East India House
- Egyptian Hall
- Flaxman Gallery
- French Gallery
- Foundling Hospital
- Geological Museum
- Greenwich Hospital and Royal Naval College
- Grosvenor Gallery
- India Museum (South Kensington)
- Institute of Painters in Oil Colours
- Linwood Gallery
- Missionary Museum
- Model of St. Peter's
- National Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery (Bethnal Green)
- Natural History Museum
- Naval Models Museum (Greenwich Hospital)
- Painted Hall see Greenwich Hospital
- painters held in particular galleries
- Patent Museum
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Royal Asiatic Society
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
- Soane Museum
- South Kensington Museum
- Surrey Institution
- Tower of London Museum
- Tussaud's Exhibition of Waxworks
- United Service Museum
- Veterinary College Museum
- Wallace Collection
- Water-Colour Drawings Exhibition
- Woolwich Arsenal

Music and Musicians

- Concerts
- list of public halls
- Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre
- Patti (Adelina Patti, opera singer)
- Queen's Hall
- St. James's Hall
- sheet music
see also Italian Street Musicians
see also Singing, below
see also Street Musicians
see also Street Musicians - brass
see also Street Organ-Grinders
see also Theatre - Music Hall, below

Parks, Commons and Heaths

see also Gardens and Spas, above

- Alexandra Park
- Battersea Park
- Blackheath
- Bonner's Fields
- Brompton Park
- Clapham Common
- comparison of parks
- Dulwich Park
- Finsbury Park
- Green Park
- Greenwich Park
- Hampstead Heath
- Hyde Park
- Kennington Park
- Primrose Hill
- Regents Park
- Richmond Park
- Southwark Park
- St James's Park
- Vauxhall Park
- Victoria Park
- Waterlow Park
- Wimbledon Common

Penny Readings

Sea-side

- opinions of
- Ramsgate
- Restall's Excursions
see also Transport - River - Steamers - Character of

Singing

- glee singing
- Sacred Harmonic Society
- street singers

Societies

- Aeronautical Club
- Alpine Club
- Art Union of London
- The Beef-Steak Society
- bird fanciers
- The Botanical Society of London
- change-ringing (bell ringing)
- coaching clubs
- debating societies
- Dilettanti Society
- dog-shows
- Horticultural Society of London
- Kennel Club
- Literary and Artistic Societies
- 'The Lumber Troop'
- Microscopical Societies
- 'miscellaneous societies' (Dickens's Dictionary)
- Numismatic Society
- Royal Asiatic Society
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Royal Horticultural Society
- Royal Society of Literature
- Sacred Harmonic Society
- Society of Antiquaries
- Society of Arts
- Society of British Artists
- Society of Painters in Water Colours

Sport

- angling
- athletics
- archery
- bicycling see Transport - Roads - Bicylces
& see also Cycling at Herne Hill
- billiards
- blood sports
- boxing
- chess
- cricket
- football
- golf
- gymnastics (1) (2)
- pigeon fancying
- racing
- riding
- rowing
- rugby
- skating & rollerskating
- swimming
- tennis
- yachting

Street Entertainments

- Donkey rides
- Punch and Judy

Theatre and Shows

- Actors, Actresses and Acts

A
- amateurs
B
- Blondin (Charles Jean Francois Gravelet)
    (tightrope walker) (1824-1897)
C
- Lottie Collins (music-hall star, 1865-1910)
- costumes
D
- 'the Dramatic Shoe-Black'
E-F
- Lydia Foote (actress)
H-I
- Henry Irving (actor, 1838-1905)
K
- Mr. & Mrs. Charles Kean
     (Actors, 1811-68; 1805-80)
- Mr. & Mrs. William H. Kendal
     (Actors, 1843-1917; 1848-1935)
L
- Jules Leotard (trapeze artist, 1830-1870)
- Marie Lloyd (music hall star, 1870-1922)
M
- William Charles Macready (actor, 1793-1873)
- magicians
- Charles Matthews (Comedian, 1803-78)
- mesmerists
N
- Henry Neville (actor)
O-P
- Cora Pearl (actress)
- Samuel Phelps (Actor/Manager 1804-78)
Q-S
- Arthur Roberts (comedian, actor)
- Frederick Robson (actor, 1821-1864)
- Edward Sothern (1826-81) as 'Lord Dundreary'
T
- Ellen Terry (Actress, 1848-1828)
U-Z
- 'Zazel' (Rosa Richter) (human canonball)

- Audiences

- 'Among the Gods'
- audience members
- drama and the poor
- Gallery audiences

- Dioramas and Panoramas

- Colosseum
- Diorama in Regent's Park
- Panorama, Leicester Square

- Gilbert & Sullivan

- Music Hall

- - Character of

- Dickens's Dictionary entry
-'music-hall inanities II'
- prostitution
- refreshments

- - Halls

- Alhambra, see under Theatres, below
- Bedford Music Hall
- Britannia Theatre, Hoxton
- Canterbury 1851, enlarged 1854
- Deacons in Clerkenwell 1861
- Empire Theatre of Varieties 1887
- Evans in Covent Garden 1855
- list of theatres, music halls and venues in 1895
- London Pavilion, Picadilly Circus 1861
- Oxford Music Hall 1861
- South London Palace in St George’s Fields 1860
- Strand Musick Hall 1864
- Weston’s in Holborn 1857
- Wiltons in Stepney 1858

- Pantomimes

- Penny Gaffs

- character of

- Plays

- plots of popular drama
- realism

- Private Theatricals

- Dickens's Dictionary advice

- Theatres and Venues

- Adelphi
- Agricultural Hall
- Alhambra
- Astleys (see also Sanger's Amphitheatre, below)
- Avenue Theatre
- Brunswick Theatre
- Comedy Theatre
- Court Theatre
- Covent Garden Theatre
- Criterion Theatre
- Daly's Theatre (1893)
- Drury Lane Theatre
- Duke's Theatre (see also Holborn Theatre Royal)
- The Eagle
- Egyptian Hall
- Elephant and Castle Theatre
- The Empire Theatre
- Folly Theatre
- Gaiety Theatre (1868)
- Garrick Theatre
- Globe Theatre
- Grecian Theatre (see The Eagle)
- at Greenwich Fair
- Haymarket Theatre
- Her Majesty's Theatre / Opera House
- Hippodrome (1900-)
- Holborn Theatre Royal
- Imperial Theatre see Royal Aquarium
- list of theatres, music halls and venues in 1895
- Lyceum Theatre
- Marylebone Theatre
- New Royal Amphitheatre
- Novelty Theatre
- Olympia
- Olympic Theatre
- Opera Comique
- Palace Theatre
- Park Theatre
- Pavilion Theatre
- Philharmonic Theatre
- prices for theatres
- Prince of Wales's Theatre (Tottenham Ct. Rd)
- Prince of Wales's Theatre (Coventry St.) 1884-
- Princess's Theatre
- Queen's Theatre (Regency Theatre)
- Queen's Theatre (St. Martin's Hall)
- Royal Aquarium
- 'Royal Circus', East End
- Royal Court Theatre (1871)
- Royal English Opera House, see Palace Theatre
- Royalty Theatre
- Sadler's Wells
- Sanger's Amphitheatre (see also Astley's, above)
- Sans Souci Theatre
- Savoy Theatre
- Shaftesbury Theatre
- St. George's Hall
- St. James's Theatre
- Standard Thearte
- Strand Theatre
- Surrey Theatre
- Terry's Theatre
-'a theatrical green-room and behind the scenes'
- Vaudeville Theatre
- The 'Vic' (Coburg)
- The Walhalla

see also list of 'public halls'

- Zoos and Menageries

- Cross's Menagerie at Exeter Change
- London Zoo
- Surrey Zoological Gardens
- Tower Menagerie

FINANCE

Banks

- Bank of England

'Bubble Companies'

Building Societies

- Abbey Road Building Society
- a list of societies
- National Building Society

Clearing Houses

- Bankers Clearing House

Company promoters

Exchanges

- The Hop Exchange
- The Royal Exchange
- The Stock Exchange
- The Universal Hall of Commerce

Insurance

- Benefit and Friendly Societies

- Fire Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Life Assurance (Cassells)
- a list of companies (Dickens's Dictionary)
- Trafalgar Life Assurance Association

- Maritime

- - Lloyds

- Lloyd's - "A1"
- Lloyd's and Lloyd's Register
- Lloyd's, history
- Lloyd's, rooms in

- Money-lenders

- The Royal Mint

- Savings clubs

- Stock Brokers

see also The Jerusalem Coffee House

FOOD AND DRINK

Adulteration

- drink
- milk
- The Seven Curses of London, Chpt. 9

Animal Husbandry

- poultry

Coffee Houses / Coffee Rooms

- British Coffee House, Cockspur-street
- character of
- coffee taverns
- Grecian Coffee House
- Jerusalem Coffee House
- Peele's Coffee House
- Slaughter's Coffee House

Cookery Books and Advice

- heating food at the bakers
- Hints on Carving (from Cassells Household Guide)
- Cookery (from Cassells Household Guide)
- The Scholars Handbook of Household Management and Cookery

Cookshops

Diet

- bread in diet
- breakfast
- food of the poor
- offal
- packed lunch
- pies
- recommended food for children
- Sunday dinners

Fast food and food sold on streets

- baked potatoes (1) (2)
- boiled puddings
- brandy balls
- bread
- cakes, tarts &c.
- 'capital and income'
- coffee stalls (1) (2)
- curds and whey
- food sold to dockers
- fish (1) (2)
- food sold at the Crystal Palace
- food sold at Vauxhall Gardens
- fried fish
- ginger-beer, sherbert, lemonade (1) (2)
- gingerbread
- ham sandwiches
- hot-cross buns and chelsea buns
- hot eels see Pea Soup
- hot elder wine
- hot green peas
- ices and ice-creams (1) (2)
- milk
- muffins and crumpets (1) (2)
- oranges
- pastry and confectionary
- pea-soup and hot eels (1) (2)
- peppermint water
- pickled whelks (1) (2)
- pies (1) (2)
- plum duff
- rice-milk
- sheeps trotters
- shell-fish
- 'sweet-stuff'
- water

Foreign Cuisines

- Italian food

Night Houses and Supper Rooms

- see also the Alhambra
- Cafe Riche
- Evan's
- Jack Percival's
- Kate Hamilton's
- the "Kitchen"
- Mott's
- the "Pic"
- supper-rooms

Restaurants

- The Bay Tree
- Café Royal
- chop and steak houses
- finding a good restaurant
- fish dinners
- Holborn Restaurant
- 'hotel and tavern dinners'
- 'The Imperial Restaurant and Luncheon Bar'
- in hotels
- oyster-shops and restaurants
- The Rainbow
- restaurants and Clerks

Weights and Measures

- 'slang' weights

Stoves and Ranges

- advice on stoves and ranges (1) (2)

Tea Shops

- A.B.C. Tea Shops
- Lyon's Tea Shops

HEALTH AND HYGIENE

Air and Ventilation

- value of ozone
- ventilation of rooms (1) (2)
see also Disease - Miasma

Baths and Bathing

- bathing advice (for the home) (1) (2)
- bathing advice (sea and river)
- bathing in the serpentine
- douches / showers
- gas baths
- how to clean sponges
- Old Royal Baths
- public baths
- sea-water bathing
- Turkish Baths

Beauty Products and Beauty Regimes

- 'ablutions of the face'
- breath
- 'complexion-colour'
- cosmetic surgery
- cosmetics
- depilation
- 'disorders of the skin'
- ears
- electrolysis (advert, 1893)
- eyes
- face-powder
- feet
- freckles
- hair care
- hair styling
- hands
- lips
- 'management of the skin'
- nose
- perfumes, toilet-water, soap
- skin cream
- spots
- sunburn
- warts
- wearing make-up
- wrinkles

Dentistry and Teeth

- children's teeth
- cleaning
- 'extracted by electricity' (advertisement, 1893)
- false teeth
- tartar
- tooth-ache
- tooth-powders

Disease - see Disease

Disability

- a blind fiddler
- crippled children
- "Hookey Alf"
- paralysed

Exercise and Physiotherapy

- 'Calisthenics for Ladies'
- 'gymnastic exercises'
- Sandow Institute
- value of exercise (1) (2)
- value of walking

Hazards and Accidents

- causes of fires
- chimney fires
- fires in theatres
- 'nuisances' (Dickens's Dictionary)
- riding accidents
- streets

Hospitals

- Aske's Hospital
- Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)
- British Home for Incurables
- Charing Cross Hospital
- conditions in hospitals
- Chelsea Hospital
- City Orthopoedic Hospital
- The Dreadnought
- East End Hospital for Sick Children
- Evelina Hospital for Sick Children
- Foundling Hospital
- French Hospital
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children
- Greenwich Hospital and Royal Naval College
- Guy's Hospital
- Hospital for Diseases of the Chest
- Jews' Hospital
- King's College Hospital
- list of hospitals and dispensaries
- list of hospitals and doctors
- Lock Hospital
- London Fever Hospital 1803
- The London Hospital 1740
- Magdalen Hospital 1758
- Metropolitan Free Hospital
- Middlesex Hospital 1745
- National Orthopoedic Hospital
- Royal Hospital for Incurables
- Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children 1847
- Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital
- St. Bartholomew's Hospital
- St. George's Hospital
- St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics
- St. Thomas's Hospital
- University College Hospital
- Westminster Hospital
- Woodford Hall convalescent home

Laundries, Washing and Cleaning

- carpet-sweeper
- 'laundries' (Dickens's Dictionary)
- washing clothes, advice
- washing machines

Light

- light in the home
- value of sunlight

Medical Advice, Cures and Technology

(see also Quackery, below)
- the 'Acoustic Fan'
- 'Domestic Surgery'
- hydropathy
- invalid carriages and chairs
- massage
- pills
- treating chapped skin
- treating chilblains
- treating corns
- treating hay-fever
- treating inflammations
- treating insomnia
- treating migraines
- treating stings

Mental Health

- Bethlehem Hospital
- Lunatic asylums
- St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics

Mortality

- amongst illegitimate children
- in 1850
- in Bethnal Green, 1848 and earlier
[also Hackney, Poplar, Shoreditch, Whitechapel]
- deaths per thousand (1878)

Pollutants and Refuse

- air pollution and health
- animal waste, manure, dung (1) (2)
- ashes
- night soil
- slaughterhouses
see also Weather - Smoke

Quackery

- advertisements
- 'cough drops and medical confectionary' (1) (2)
- street-doctors

Sewers and Sanitation

- cesspools
- cisterns and water storage
- condition of the Thames
- condition of water
- drainage of houses (1) (2)
- drinking fountains and cattle troughs
- earth closets, privies (1) (2)
- house cleaning, white-wash etc
- New River
- refuse/rubbish collection (see also Dustmen)
- sewers
- springs and wells
- stand-pipes
- Water Companies
- water supply
- water supply in winter

see also Buildings - Abbey Mills Pumping Station
see also Buildings - Crossness Pumping Station
see also Housing - Housing of the Poor

HOUSES AND HOUSING

Building Societies - see Finance - Building Societies

Flats

Heating

- coal economy advice
- fuel economy advice

Homelessness

- sleeping rough
see also Housing of the Poor - Workhouses, below

Hotels

- Hotel Cecil
- Charing Cross Hotel
- expense of London hotels
- Gerald's Hall Hotel
- The Hummums
- list of hotels
- Lane's Hotel
- Long's Hotel
- Hotel Metropole
- Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras

Housing Associations

see Housing of the Poor - Model Housing below

- East End Dwellings Company
- Four Percent Dwellings Company
- Guinness Trust
- Improved Industrial Dwellings Company
- Labourers and General Dwellings Company
- Metropolitan Association for Improving the
Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
- Peabody Trust

Housing of the Middle Classes

- advice to householders (Dickens's Dictionary)
- boarding houses
- DIY
- 'The English Home'
- exterior of London houses
- finding a house (Dickens's Dictionary)
- finding lodgings (Dickens's Dictionary)
- gardening
- genteel households
- 'income and management'
- lodgings vs. hotels
- suburban lodgings
- an upper middle class home, at breakfast

- - interior design, decoration, furnishing

- aquariums
- bath-rooms
- blinds
- description of a typical interior
- drawing rooms
- dressing-rooms
- ferns
- 'general remarks'

Housing of the Poor

- Alleyn's Alms Houses
- Bancroft's Alms Houses
- Dacre's Alms Houses
- furnishing and decoration
- ideal home, poor's view of
- landlords
- lodgings (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
- model housing
- model lodgings
- a night refuge
- overcrowding
- The Scholar's Handbook of Household Management
- slums
- workhouses

Suburbia

- 'The March of Bricks and Mortar'
- 'How London Grows'
- suburban gardens (1) (2)
- suburbs

LEGAL SYSTEM

Chambers

Courts

- Bankruptcy Court
- Chancery
- County Courts
- Court of Queen's Bench
- Courts of Requests
- Doctors Commons
- Insolvent Court
- jurymen
- list of law courts (Dickens's Dictionary)
- Mansion House Justice Room (a police court)
- Master of the Rolls
- Metropolitan County Courts
- Middlesex Sessions House
- The New Law Courts 1883-
(aka High Court)
(aka Royal Courts of Justice)
- Old Bailey
- Petty Sessions
- Police Courts

Inns of Chancery

- Barnard's Inn
- Clement's Inn
- Clifford's Inn
- Furnival's Inn
- Lyons Inn
- New Inn
- Staple Inn
- Strand Inn
- Thavies' Inn

Inns of Court

- admission and rules
- Gray's Inn
- Lincoln's Inn
- Middle Temple (1) (2)
- Temple (1) (2) (3)

The Law Society

The Long Vacation

see also, Professions - Service Industry - Legal Profession

LIGHTING

Candles

- advice
- types of

Electric

- benefits of
- dangers of
- electric light
- first use to light theatre
- road-works

Gas

- gas
- incandescant mantles
- keeping down costs
- shop windows

'Illuminations' (Dickens's Dictionary)

Lamps

- oil/paraffin lamps
- spirit lamps

Traffic Lights

- introduction of

MAPS

- 1827 - Greenwood's Map of London
- 1844 - Mogg's Plan for Viewing London [1.8MB]
- 1848 - Bethnal Green
- 1859 - Reynolds Map of Modern London (Snow site)
- 1889 - Charles Booth poverty map (1) (2)
- 1895 - Reynolds' Shilling Map
- interactive map (bridges, stations etc.)
- list of maps (Dickens's Dictionary)

MARKETS

- Bermondsey Leather Market
- Billingsgate
- Borough Market
- Brick Lane
- Brill
- Clare Market
- Columbia Market
- Covent Garden
- Farringdon Market
- Fleet Market
- Houndsditch Jewellery Market
- Hungerford Market
- Leadenhall Market
- list of street markets
- Metropolitan Cattle Market, Copenhagen Fields
- New Cut
- Newgate Market
- Newport Market
- Petticoat Lane
- Sclater Street
- Smithfield
- Spitalfields
- Squalors' Market
- Whitecross Street (cf. Squalor's Market?)

ORGANISATIONS

City of London

- about the City of London
- a list of the City Companies
- as seen as weekends
- Armourers' Company
- Artillery Company
- Bridge Ward, Within
- Bridge Ward, Without
- Clothworkers' Company
- Cordwainer Street Ward
- Cripplegate Ward
- Dowgate Ward
- Drapers' Company
- Fishmongers' Company
- Freedom of the City
- Goldsmiths' Company
- Grocers' Company
- Haberdashers' Company
- Heralds' College
- Ironmongers
- The Lord Mayor
- Mercers' Company
- Merchant Taylors
- Portsoken (Ward)
- Salters' Company
- Skinners' Hall
- Vintners' Company
- Ward of Aldersgate
- Ward of Aldgate
- Ward of Basinghall
- Ward of Billingsgate
- Ward of Bishopsgate
- Ward of Bread Street
- Ward of Broad Street
- Ward of Castle Baynard
- Ward of Cheap
- Ward of Coleman Street
- Ward of Cornhill
- Ward of Farringdon Within
- Ward of Farringdon Without
- Ward of Langbourne
- Ward of Lime Street
- Ward of Queenhithe
- Ward of Southwark
- Ward of Tower Street
- Ward of Vintry
- Ward of Walbrook

College of Arms

Foreign and Commonwealth, Ministries and Consulates

- Argentine Republic
- Austria and Hungary
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada, Dominion of
- Chili
- Columbia, British
- Columbia, United Staties
- Costa Rica
- Denmark
- France
- German Empire
- Greece
- Guatemala, Republic Of
- Haiti
- Hawaiian Islands
- Honduras
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- Liberia
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New South Wales
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua, Republic of
- Orange Free State
- Persia
- Peru
- Portugal
- Queensland
- Republic of Monte Video, Uruguay
- Republic of Salvador
- Russia
- San Domingo
- Siam
- South Australia
- Spain
- Sweden and Norway
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United States of Venezuela
- Victoria

Freemasons

General Council of Medical Education and Registration

Geological Survey of the United Kingdom

Government Departments

- Admiralty
- Civil Service Commissioners
- Colonial Office
- Commissioners of Sewers
- Commissioners of Works
- Committee of Council on Education
- Committee of County Court Judges
- Committee of Privy Council for Trade
- Copyhold Enclosure and Tithe Commission
- Customs
- Ecclesiastical Commissioners
- Exchequer and Audit Department
- Foreign Office
- Friendly Societies' Registry Office
- Home Office
- Inland Revenue
- India Office
- Irish Office
- Judge Advocate-General's Office
- Local Government Board
- Local Marine Board
- London School Board
- Lord Advocate’s Office
- Lord Chamberlain’s Department
- Lord Great Chamberlain’s Office
- Lunacy Commissioners
- Meteorological Office
- Metropolitan Board of Works
- Metropolitan Fire Brigade
- Ordnance Office
- Paymaster General's Office
- Privy Council Office
- Privy Seal Office
- Public Works Loan Board
- Queen Anne's Bounty and
First Fruits and Tenths Office
- Railway Commissioners
- Record Office
- Registrar General's Office
- State Paper Office
- Stationery Office
- Telegraph Department
- Treasury
- War Office
- Woods, Forests, Land and Revenues

London County Council

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

Order of St. John of Jerusalem

Professional Bodies

see Professions - Professional Bodies

Registrars' Offices

Royal Colonial Institute

Royal Humane Society

Salvation Army - see Charities

Society for the Suppression of Mendicity

Society for the Suppression of Vice

Scientific Societies

- British Archaeological Association
- Geological Society of London
- Geographical Society
- Linnaean Society
- list of scientific societies
- Medical and Chirurgical Society
- Medical Society of London
- Microscopical Societies
- Statistical Society

Trade Organisations

- list of organisations

PEOPLE

- Prince Albert (1) (2)
- Matthew Arnold
- Charles Booth
- Lord Brougham
- Thomas Carlyle (1) (2)
- Wilkie Collins
- Eliza Cooke (poet)
- George Cruikshank
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens (1) (2)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1) (2)
- George Eliot
- Michael Faraday
- William Gladstone
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Douglas Jerrold
- John Leech
- Lord Beaconsfield
- Lord Leighton (artist)
- Richard Monkton Milnes
- Cardinal Newman
- Viscount Palmerston
- John Ruskin
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (preacher)
- H.M. Stanley
- W.T. Stead
- Lord Strathnairn
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1) (2)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1) (2)
- Anthony Trollope
- Queen Victoria
- Richard Wagner
- The Duke of Wellington
- Oscar Wilde

PHOTOGRAPHY AND OPTICAL

Advertisements

- for studios

Cartes de Visite

Early Cinema

- Theatograph

Photographs of London

- Photographs of London
- Street Life in London (Thomson)
- The Queen's London, 1896

Sitting for Photographs

- on Clapham Common
- 'Photographic Beauties'
- 'The Too Faithful Talbotype'

Talbotype

- exhibition 1852 (review)

Victorian Optical Devices

- examples
- Magic Lanterns
- Photodrome
- Zoopraxiscope

see also Aldgate Pump
see also 'Fading Away'
see also Flowergirl
see also Italian Boy with Monkey
see also Leicester Square
see also Male & Female Clothing, 1885
see also Newsvenders

POLICE AND POLICING

Metropolitan Police

- duties
- joining
- list of divisions and police stations
- location of police constables
- Metropolitan Police Office
- New Scotland Yard
- 'night-charges'
- pay

'Nuisances' (Dickens's Dictionary)

Perception of Police

- effect of police, 'A police sergeant appears ...'
- failure
- hatred
- the policeman's beat
- the policeman's character
- the policeman's uniform and arms
- recollections of a policeman

Police Courts

- Bow Street Police Court
- list of courts

Police Stations

- Hyde Park

POLITICS

Chartism

- demonstrations

MPs and Parliament

- Constituencies
- the House of Commons
- Members of Parliament
- 'The Victoria Parliament'

Political Societies

- list of societies

Socialism

- 'socialist riots'

see also People for Politicians

POPULATIONS

Census

- 1841

Emigration

- emigrants

General Comments

- 'Londoners'

Gipsies

Immigrants

- Chinese (1) (2) (3)
- Irish
- Italian (1) (2)
- Jewish (see also Religion)

London Crowds

Middle Classes

- 'The Distressed Gentlewoman'
- perception of the poor
see also Houses - Housing of the Middle Classes

Mortality - see Health and Hygiene

Shabby Genteel

- character of

Working Classes

see Houses - Housing of the Poor
- 'The Working Man'
- 'Working Man's Saturdays'
- 'Working Man's Sundays'

PRISONS AND PENAL SYSTEM

Executions

- reports of

Prisons

- Brixton Prison
- City Prison
- Coldbath Fields Prison
- Fleet Prison
- Holloway Prison
- Horsemonger Lane Prison
- House of Detention (Clerkenwell)
- Hulks
- London Female Penitentiary
- Marshalsea Prison
- Millbank Prison
- Newgate Prison
- Pentonville Prison
- 'The Prisoners' Van'
- Queen's Bench Prison (1) (2)
- slang names for
- White Cross Street Prison

Penal Reform

Rehabilitation of Prisoners

- Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society
- Opinions on
- Ticket-of-leave (parole)

PROFESSIONS AND TRADES

Building and Construction

- navvies
- shipbuilders

Clothing

- conditions in shops
- drapers
- dressmakers
- second-hand sellers
- sellers of cheap jewellery

- Tailors and Seamstresses

- braces-sewers
- coat maker
- cloakmakers
- embroiderers
- fur liners
- garter-makers
- shoe-binders
- 'slop' clothing makers and sweatshops
- stay-stitchers
- stockmakers
- tailors
- trousers-hands
- uniform makers (1) (2)

Craft and Household

- 'bricabrac' sellers

- Furniture

- cabinet makers
- chair-menders
- second-hand sellers of furniture
- upholsterers

- garret-masters
- label-printers
- sellers of crockery
- weavers

Factory and Workshop Manufacture

- artificial flowers
- glass
- gutta percha
- life of an apprentice mechanic/artisan
- manure
- matches

Food and Drink

- brewers
- coffee-stall keepers
- costermongers (1) (2) (3) (4)
- costermongers as fish-sellers (1) (2) (3)
- costermongers selling fruit and vegetables
- cough-drop sellers
- fruit-stall keepers
- 'general dealers'
- ice-cream sellers
- milkwomen
- mushroom hunters
- piemen
- sellers from street stalls
- sellers of poultry
- sellers of sheeps trotters
- street sellers of dairy produce
- street sellers of 'eatables'
- street sellers of ice
- street sellers of poultry and game
- street sellers of shell-fish
- street sellers of water-cresses (1) (2) (3)

see also Food and Drink

Government and Officialdom

- Beadles

Military and Naval

- Sailors

- Sailors, 1840s (photograph)
- Sailors' Home
- The 'Worcester' Training Ship

- Soldiers

- 'Drawing Room Parade at Albany Barracks'
- Guardsmen
- list of barracks
- 'Recruiting Sergeants at Westminster'
- uniforms and clothing allowance
- Yeomen of the Guard

Numbers in different trades

Professional Societies / Bodies

- Institution of Civil Engineers
- list of professional societies
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Royal Institute of British Architects
- Society of Telegraph Engineers
and Electricians (1883-88) / Institution
of Electrical Engineers (1888-)
see also Education - Professional/Technical ...

Service Industry / General

- actors see Entertainment - Theatre
- artists' models
- auctioneers
- ballad sellers (1) (2)
- ballet-girls
- bankers
- barbers (1) (2)
- beauticians
- cab-men - see Transport - Roads - Cabs
- cat's meat men (1) (2)
- chimney sweeps
- clerks (1) (2) (3)
- commissionaires
- company promoters
- cotton merchants
- crossing sweepers
- disinfectors

- dockers and river workers (see also Thames - Docks)

- casual labour (1) (2)
- dock masters
- lumpers

- dustmen
- dust-yard scavengers
- envelope addressers
- firemen
- flower-girls, sellers of plants, seeds etc (1) (2)
- general dealers / dealers in sundries
- hairdressers
- hare and rabbit skin buyer
- holders of horses' heads, minders of animals
- horse auctioneers (1) (2)
- house-keepers

- journalists

- penny-a-liners (1) (2)
- the sub-editor

- knackers

- legal profession

- barristers (1) (2)
- judges

- linkmen
- menders
- money-lenders
- mudlarks and river scavengers
- newsvenders & news-boys
- nurses
- opticians
- packers
- pawnbrokers - see Shops and Shopping - Pawnbrokers
- police - see Police and Policing
- porters
- postmen
- printers
- publishers (see also Paternoster Row)
- rag-Gatherers, bone-pickers, "pure" collectors
- rent collector
- sandwich men
- School Board Visitors
- sellers of almanacks and diaries
- a seller of duck-weed
- sellers of animal food
- sellers of artificial flowers
- sellers of bird food (1) (2)
- sellers of birds (1) (2) (3)
- sellers of blacking
- sellers of boot and stay laces
- sellers of flowers
- sellers of gelatine-cards (post-cards)
- sellers of lucifers (matches)
- sellers of playing-cards
- sellers of race cards
- sellers of tape and cotton

- servants

- accommodation
- beer, provision of
- chambermaids
- cooks
- footman
- housemaids
- pro forma letters relating to service
- relationship with employer
- right to sell scraps
- 'Servantgalism'
- wages
- working hours

- sewer-flushers
- shoeblacks
- shop assistants
- sign-painters
- a stenographic-card seller
- stock-brokers
- street entertainers
- street musicians
- street musicians - brass
- street organ-grinders
- street patterers (1) (2)
- street preachers
- street stationers (1) (2) (3)
- tallymen
- toll-men
- travel agents
- umbrella menders (1) (2)
- the 'wall-worker'
- water-cart men
- water-men
- wet nurses

Trade Unions

- Clifden House Institute
- negative opinion of strikes (1) (2)
- response to strikes by management
- 'A Prosperous Trade Union'

Trade organisations

Tradesmen (list from Dickens's Dictionary)

PUBLICATIONS

Directories

- Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879
- a list of directories

Etiquette and Household Advice Manuals

-'Common Sense for Housemaids'
- 'The Lady's Dressing Room'
- 'The Ladies' and Gentleman's Model Letter Writer'
- 'T'he Scholars Handbook of Household Management'

History

- The Queen's London, 1896
- Views of the Pleasure Gardens of London; H.A.Rogers, 1896

Humorous

- London Characters and the Humourous Side of Life; WS Gilbert c.1871
- Punch

Improving books

Journals, Magazines and Newspapers

- the cheap press
- The Daily Telegraph
- influence on the working man of popular press
- journalists see Professions - Service Industry - Journalists
- a list of newspapers (Dickens's Dictionary)
- London Gazette
- news in London
- The Times

Lectures and Other Pamphlets

- Degeneration Amongst Londoners; 1885; James Cantlie

Novels

- novels of Charles Dickens

Poetry

- Song of the Shirt; 1843; Thomas Hood

Popular Fiction (eg. street ballads, penny dreadfuls)

- dangers of serials
- Penny Dreadfuls
- street ballads
- 'Varney, The Vampyre'

Popularity of Printed Material

- a view from 1837

Social Investigation / Journalism

- The Great Metropolis; 1837; James Grant
- Sketches in London, 1838; James Grant
- Sanitary Ramblings, 1848; Hector Gavin
- Sinks of London Laid Open, 1848
- London Labour and the London Poor; 1851; Henry Mayhew
- Curiosities of London Life; 1853; Charles Manby Smith
- Twice Round the Clock; 1859; George Sala
- Ragged London in 1861; John Hollingshead
- Unsentimental Journeys; or Byways of the Modern Babylon ,1867; James Greenwood
- Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes, 1867; Thomas Wright
- The Seven Curses of London; 1869; James Greenwood
- The Terrible Sights of London; 1870; Thomas Archer
- London : A Pilgrimage; 1872; Gustave Dore & Blanchard Jerrold
- Street Life in London, 1877; J.Thomson and Adolphe Smith
- Bitter Cry of Outcast London; 1883; W.C.Preston / A.Mearns
- Homes of the London Poor; 1883 (2nd ed) Octavia Hill
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon; 1885; W T Stead
- Round London : Down East and Up West; 1894; Montagu Williams Q.C.

RELIGION

Anglican

- Chapels Royal
- Chapel Royal, Savoy
- a list of churches
- Lambeth Palace
- St. Clement Danes'
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- St. Saviour's (Southwark Cathedral)
- Westminster Abbey

Atheists and Heathens

Baptist

- list of places of worship
- The Metropolitan Tabernacle
- Westbourne Park Chapel

Brethren

- list of places of worship

Catholic

- Catholic Apostolic Church
- Church of Our Lady of Victories
- list of churches
- Mission Churches
- St. George's Cathedral

Congregational

- City Temple (1) (2)
- Congregational Church
- list of places of worship
- Lyndhurst Road Chapel
- Memorial Hall
- Union Chapel

General Baptist

- list of places of worship

German Protestant

- list of places of worship

Independent

- list of places of worship

Jewish

- The Central Synagogue
- East End Jews in hospital
- East End Jews on holiday
- Jews as social climbers (1) (2)
- perceived character of Jews
see also Populations - Immigrants - Jewish

Lutheran

- list of places of worship

Methodist

- City Road Chapel
- list of places of worship
- list of places of worship (Methodist New Connexion)

Missions and Missionaries

- Church Army
- Cow Cross Mission
- 'Missions'
- Parochial Mission Women's Association
see also Catholic - Mission Churches

New Jerusalem Church

- list of places of worship

Presbyterian

- list of places of worship

Primitive Methodist Connexion

- list of places of worship

Religious Societies

- list of religious societies
- Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel in Foreign Parts
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Religious Tracts

- Christian Knowledge Society
- Religious Tract Sellers
- Religious Tract Society

Spiritualism

- spiritualism in the 1860s

"Undenominational"

- list of places of worship

Unitarian

- list of places of worship

"Unsectarian"

- list of places of worship

Wesleyan

- list of places of worship

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

- Greenwich Observatory
- Phonograph
- Phrenology
- Reprography
- sound recording (humour)
- X-rays

see alsoCommunications (Telegraph, Telephone)
see also Lighting (Gas, Electric)
see also Photography and Optical

SEX

Abortion

- opinions

Contraception

- conjugal onanism

Sexuality

- 'male desire'
- the 'man-woman'

see also Crime - Prostitution
see also Disease

SHOPS AND SHOPPING

Auction Houses and Auctions

- Auction Mart
- Christie's
- Debenham & Storr's
- 'Rig' auctions
- Tattersalls

Bazaars

Co-operative Societies

- Agricultural and Horticultural (Co-op.) Assoc. Ltd
- Army and Navy Co-operative Stores Limited
- Civil Service Co-operative Society
- Civil Service Supply Associated, Ltd
- Coal Co-operative Society Ltd.
- on 'Co-operative stores'
- London and Westminster Supply Association Lim.
- New Civil Service Cooperation Limited

'Ladies shopping'

Marine stores

'The Obstinate Shop'

Opening Hours

- opening hours
- Sunday Trading

Pawnbrokers

Pricing ('bargains')

Second-hand furniture

THAMES

Bridges

- Alexandra Bridge
- Battersea Bridge
- Blackfriars Bridge
- Cannon Street Bridge
- Charing Cross Bridge
- Chelsea Bridge
- Grosvenor Bridge
- Hammersmith Bridge
- Hungerford Suspension Bridge
- Lambeth Bridge
- London Bridge
- Putney Bridge
- Richmond Bridge
- Southwark Bridge
- Tower Bridge
- Vauxhall Bridge
- Waterloo Bridge
- Westminster Bridge

Description of the Thames

- description
- Upper and Lower Pool

Docks

- character of
- Commercial Docks
- East India Docks
- East Country Dock
- Grand Surrey
- Greenland
- London Docks
- Millwall
- Regent's Canal Dock
- Royal Albert Dock
- Royal Victoria Dock
- St Katherine's Dock
- Tilbury
- West India

Embankments

- embankments
- floods
- Victoria Embankment (1) (2) (3)

Rules of the river

Sanitary Condition

Tunnels

- Blackwall Tunnel
- Greenwich Foot Tunnel
- Thames Tunnel
- Tower Subway
- Woolwich Foot Tunnel

Views of the Thames

- 'Above Bridge to Westminster'
- below London Bridge
- from Bankside
- from Tower Bridge (High Level)
- Nine A.M

TRANSPORT

Canals

- Regent's Canal

Railways, Above Ground

- Companies

- list of ticket offices for each company

- Fares

- Financing and Shares

- railway 'bubbles'

- Hotels - see Housing - Hotels

- Lines

- railway lines and navigating London
- lines out of London
- Deptford to London Bridge 1836
- Great Western Railway 1838
- Croydon to London Bridge 1839
- Brighton, Folkestone, Dover to
    London Bridge 1841-44
- Blackwall, Shadwell and Limehouse to
    Fenchurch St, built 1841
- North London Line built 1850-53
- Richmond and Twickenham to Waterloo,
    built 1848
- Edgeware, Finchley, High Barnet, Muswell Hill
    and Enfield to King’s Cross built by
    Great Northern, between 1867-72
- Camden Road, Finchley Road and Hendon to
    St Pancras, built by Midland Railway
    between 1867-72
- Edmonton, Walthamstow and Chingford built by
    Great Eastern to Liverpool Street, open 1874

- Perception of

- poor conditions
- 'progress'
- third class carriages

- Stations

- Blackfriars - built as St Pauls, 1866
- Bricklayer’s Arms
- Cannon Street 1866 (South Eastern Railway)
- Charing Cross 1864 (South Eastern Railway),
   see also Markets - Hungerford Market
- Euston, 1837
- Fenchurch Street 1841
- King’s Cross 1852
- list of stations and companies
- Liverpool Street 1874
- London Bridge
- Ludgate Hill 1866
- Paddington
- St Pancras (1) (2)
- Shoreditch Station
- 'travellers refreshing themselves'
- Victoria Station 1860 (London, Brighton
and South Coast Railway)
- Waterloo Road

Railways, Undeground

- Steam

- character of
- opening of (Metropolitan Railway)

River

see also Thames

- Steamers / Steamboats

- accidents
- 'The boat of all work'
- character of
- 'La Marguerite' leaving Tilbury
- a steamboat (photograph)
- Thames steam ferry
- timetable, routes and fares

Road

- Bicycles

- and women's dress
- the bicycle craze
- bicycling
- tandem

- Cabs

- cab-stands
- Cabmen's Shelters Fund
- character of cabs and cabmen
- fares and regulation
- Hackney Coaches, 'Growlers'
- hansom cab, c.1896
- lost property (Dickens's Dictionary)

- Carriages and Coaches

- character of
- expense
- hiring
- park phaeton
- piletum
- 'Sociable'

- Cars

- early days
- the horseless carriage

Embankments - see Thames, Embankments

- New Roads

- Albany Street-Camden Road-
   Seven Sisters Road 1825-34
- Aldwych 1900-05
- Archway Road 1813
- Caledonian Road 1826
- Charing Cross Road 1887
   (subsuming Caste Street and Crown Street)
- Clerkenwell Road 1878
- Commercial Road
- Commercial Street 1844-45
- Cranbourn Street 1844-45
- Endell Street 1844-45
- Finchley Road 1826-35
- New North Road 1812
- New Oxford Street 1843-47;
   involved demolition of some of St Giles' slums
- Northumberland Avenue 1874
- Queen Victoria Street 1867-71
- Shaftesbury Avenue 1886
- Southwark Bridge Road 1819
- Southwark Street 1864
- Victoria Street 1851
- Waterloo Road 1823

- Omnibuses

- bus-stops
- character of
- conductors ('cads')
- omnibus routes

- Paving

- conditions in Bethnal Green, 1848

- Toll Gates

- toll keepers
- toll reform

- Traffic

- 'London driving'
- traffic
- traffic outside Royal Exchange c.1896

- Traffic Lights

- Trams

- lines and prices
- tramways

- Walking

- walking in London

see also Travel Agents (Cooks Tours)

WEATHER

- cold weather
- floods
- fog
- mud
- rain
- smoke
- sun

WOMEN

- 'Advice to a Stout Women'
- 'Calisthenics for Ladies'
- cohabitation
- courtship
- cross-dressing
- drinking
- education
- emancipation
- 'The Employment of Women'
- 'English Women' (by an American)
- 'Feminine Diet'
- gossips
- 'Grace of Movement'
- 'gymnastic exercises'
- 'How to Avoid Growing Stout'
- 'huckstering hymen' (1) (2)
- illegitimate children
- infanticide amongst the poor
- keeping oneself attractive
- letter-writing, relating to marriage
- 'Making-up'
- 'Nursing and After Nursing'
- old maids
- pregnancy, health-care during
- 'Poor Mother!'
- 'Rational Coquetry'
- 'Secrets of Beauty'
- 'Stout Women'
- 'The Art of Growing Old Gracefully'
- 'The Girl of the Period'
- 'The Secret of Looking Young'
- Valentine's Day
- 'Thin Women'
- a wedding
- wet nurses
- wife-beating (1) (2) (3)
- wives
- 'The Woman Question'
- women as cheap labour

see also Crime - Prostitution
see also Health - Beauty Products ...

WORDS

- criminal slang
- English pronunciation and words (from an American)
- 'A Flash Dictionary'
- pronunciation of omnibus stops
- slang of street patterers