VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS: Site map |

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0:	HOME PAGE
	A list of Turkish baths which are still open
	About the author and the dedicatee
	Navigation and best viewing hints
	Bookmarking and printing pages
	Updating policy
	Copyright matters
	Pictures of the month archive

1:	INTRODUCTION
	1: What is a Turkish bath?
	2: Why should it interest us?
	3: Aims of the website
	4: The information exchange
	5: Citing the website

2:	HISTORY OF THE VICTORIAN TURKISH BATH
	Section title pages include photographs of:
	the hot room at Cragside;
	the Minute Book of the London & Provincial
	Turkish Bath Co Ltd
	The Arrival of the Turkish bath in 19C London
	1: Introduction
	2: The first Turkish baths
	3: The first Turkish baths in London
	4: Charges and class
	5: London women and the bath
	Clean in body and mind: the Movement
	1: Introduction
	2: Urquhart, Barter, and St Anne's
	3: The Committees and The Free Press
	4: The Committees and their Turkish baths
	5: Clean in body and mind
	David Urquhart and the London Hammam
	1: Introduction
	2: A couple of books and a couple of Acts
	3: The class barrier
	4: The Subscribers' meeting
	5: Urquhart's rôle and remuneration
	6: Plan, reality, and conclusion
	The First Victorian Turkish baths in New York
	1: Dr Shepard & the first Turkish bath in the USA
	2: The First Turkish bath in Manhattan
	The Hot air controversy: wet air or dry air?
	1: Background to the controversy
	2: The start of the row: Dr Madden's article
	3: Dr Barter's response
	4: Support from others
	5: Conclusion
	Nothing but a load of hot air: controversies
	1: Introduction
	2: Technology and attitudes
	3: Technological issues
	4: Attitudinal issues; Cleanliness
	5: Doctors' attitudes
	6: Class
	7: Charges of indolence and effeminacy
	8: Shampooing and nakedness
	9: Terminology and architectural style
	10: Coda; Postscript
	Review of the sources for a Turkish bath history
	1: Before the Victorian Turkish bath
	2: Urquhart & the Victorian Turkish bath
	3: Barter & the Victorian Turkish bath
	4: Some early publications
	5: Controversy and problems
	6: Rise of Victorian Turkish bath
	7: Publicly funded baths
	8: Baths for special needs
	Turkish baths for animals
	1: Introduction
	2: The first Turkish baths for animals
	3: Turkish baths for racehorses
	4: Turkish baths for urban working horses

3:	Victorian Turkish bath TOPICS
	Section title pages include:
	dragon tattoo by Sutherland Macdonald;
	caricature of a first-timer's visit to a Turkish bath.
	'Classical porticos' and 'touches of eastern grandeur'
	1: The Turkish bath as a procedure
	2: The Turkish bath as a facility
	3: Roman bath or Turkish bath?
	4: A working class movement
	Performance in the raw
	1: The stages of the Turkish bath
	2: Urquhart's performance
	3: Theatre and performance
	4: The ritual of the towels
	5: The shampooing ritual
	6: The hand-clapping ritual
	7: The self-confident bathers

	Shampooing in 19th century London
	1: Charles Booth's survey
	2: The Turkish baths surveyed
	3: The shampooers
	4: Hours and holidays
	5: Shampooers' wages
	6: Tips, tipping, and total income
	Women and the Victorian Turkish bath
	1: Introduction
	2: The first Victorian Turkish baths
	3: Women and the first Turkish baths
	4: Availability of the baths to women
	5: Entrance charges & attendants' wages
	6: Attitudes to privacy, nudity, & exercise
	7: The Turkish bath and women's health
	— Table: Victorian Turkish Baths known to have had women's facilities
	—Shorter topics
	Cabinet baths: the DIY approach
	Caricatures and cartoons
	David and Harriet Urquhart: a team
	The Death of William Urquhart
	Earliest Turkish bath photos?
	Hydropathy and wet sheet packing
	James Joyce's Ulysses
	Ladies' night in a Turkish bath
	Letter from Constantinople
	Turkish baths: hot, humid, or steamy?
	Turkish baths in fiction
	The Urquharts' bath at Riverside
	Verse and worse
	Which was Trollope's Jermyn St Turkish bath?

4:	PERSONS connected with Turkish baths
	Section title pages include images of:
	Francis Francis;
	Thomas Gibson Bowles;
	Major Robert Poore;
	Some Turkish bath personalities
	George Elson

5:	Public COMPANIES involved with Turkish baths
	Section title pages include images of:
	Share certificate of the Stroud Baths Society Ltd
	Turkish bath companies
	The articles on individual companies are reached from:
	List of Limited Liability Companies

6:	DIRECTORY of Turkish baths in the British Isles
	The articles on individual establishments are reached from the lists below, and are preceded by notes on . . .
	The directory, and what is included
	How the Turkish baths in the directory have been found and dated
	Lists of Turkish baths in the British Isles by PLACE
	England: London
	England: Provinces
	Ireland
	Scotland
	Wales
	Lists of some special user Turkish baths in the British Isles by TYPE
	Animals
	Asylums
	Clubs
	Hospitals
	Houses
	Hydros
	Ocean liners
	Workhouses
	Lists of some Turkish baths outside the British Isles by CONTINENT
	Scope of the overseas lists
	Africa
	Australasia
	Europe
	North America

	glOSSARY
	List of terms included

	Images index & picture gallery
	Section title page includes:
	weight table from the Imperial Hotel bedrooms

	Links
	Links to and from the site


(Site map last updated 16 March 2008 )
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