"The hot dry-air bath of the Romans…
had been lost and forgotten in the British Isles
for around fourteen centuries."

  
1. ‘…hot bath introduced from the East…' Oxford English dictionary 



  
2. ‘…hot-air or steam bath…’ New shorter Oxford English dictionary



  
3. ‘…type of bath in which the bather sweats freely in a steam room…’ Collins English dictionary


  
4. Pleasures of the Japanese bath / text by Peter Grilli; photographs and design by Dana Levy; introduction by Isamu Noguchi. — New York : Weatherhill, 1992


  
5. Finnish sauna / Allan Konya. — London : Architectural Pr, 1987



  
6. Baths and bathing in classical antiquity / Fikret Yegόl. — New York : Architectural History Foundation ; Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT Pr, 1995
More recently published, Yegόl's Bathing in the Roman world (CUP, 2009) is written for the general reader.
  
7. Thermae et balnea: the architecture and cultural history of Roman public baths / Inge Nielsen ; translated [from the Danish] by Peter Crabb. — 2nd ed / Aarhus : Univ Pr, 1993


  
8. Bathing in public in the Roman world / Garrett G Fagan. — Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, 1999


  
9. Roman Bath discovered / Barry Cunliffe. — 2nd ed. — London : Routledge, 1984



  
10. Roman baths in Britain / Tony Rook. — Princes Risborough : Shire, 1992. — (Shire archaeology ; no.69)


  
11. The Russian bath / Mathias Roth. — 2nd ed. — London : Groombridge, 1855



  
12. Mr Bartholomew’s evidence before a committee of medical men on the prevention and cure of disease... / Charles Bartholomew. — Bristol : Taylor, 1866


  
13. Chartist portraits / G D H Cole. — London : Macmillan, 1941. — p.155



  
14. Revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx / Alex Callinicos. — London : Bookmarks, 1983. — p.30


  
15. ‘David Urquhart and the West Riding Foreign Affairs Committees’ / Asa Briggs The Bradford Antiquary (1962) pp.197-207


  
16. 'David Urquhart and the Foreign Affairs Committees' / Richard Shannon. In: Pressure from without in early Victorian England / edited by Patricia Hollis. — London : Edward Arnold, 1974

  
17. Unpublished thesis: The activities and influence of David Urquhart, 1837-56, with special reference to the affairs of the Near East / Margaret H Jenks. — (PhD), University of London, 1964

  
18. The trouble makers: dissent over foreign policy, 1792-1939: The Ford Lectures, Oxford, 1956 / A J P Taylor. — London : Hamish Hamilton. — p.9


  
19. 'David Urquhart and the Eastern Question, 1833-37: a study in publicity and diplomacy' / G H Bolsover Journal of Modern History (Dec 1936) pp.444-67


  
20. David Urquhart: some chapters in the life of a Victorian knight-errant of justice and liberty / Gertrude Robinson. — Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1920

  
21. Urquhart's wife, and both his daughters, converted to Roman Catholicism after his death


  
22. 'David Urquhart' / William H Maehl, Jnr. In: Biographical dictionary of modern British radicals / edited by Joseph O Baylen and Norbert J Gossman. — Brighton : Harvester Pr, 1984, — pp.506-512
          
23. A memoir of Mrs Urquhart / Mrs [Maria Catherine] Bishop. — London : Kegan Paul, 1897


  
24. …and Mr Fortescue: a selection from the diaries from 1851 to 1862 of Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford / edited by Osbert Wyndham Hewett. — London : John Murray, [1958]

  
25. The Pillars of Hercules, or, A narrative of travels in Spain & Morocco in 1848 / David Urquhart. — London : Richard Bentley, 1850. — 2 vols. — v.2; p.38

  
26. The Pillars of Hercules, or, A narrative of travels in Spain & Morocco in 1848 / David Urquhart. — London : Richard Bentley, 1850. — 2 vols. — v.2; p.32

  
27. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo , by Mr M A Titmarch / William Makepeace Thackeray / London : Chapman & Hall, 1844

  
28.  Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine...1824-27 / Richard Robert Madden. — 1829. — 2 vols


  
29.  Manners & customs of the modern Egyptians / Edward William Lane. — London : Dent, 1906. — (Everyman). — pp.343-350


  
30. For more on the beehive shaped Irish sweathouses, see Anthony Weir's beautifully illustrated website.


  
31. Strictures on the personal cleanliness of the English, with a description of the hammams of the Turks and an attempt to shew their conformity with the baths of the ancient Romans. — London : The author, 1828. — p.35

  
32. Strictures on the personal cleanliness of the English, with a description of the hammams of the Turks and an attempt to shew their conformity with the baths of the ancient Romans. — London : The author, 1828. — pp.117-22

  
33. The functions of the skin, and the value of the bath, with special reference to the improved Turkish bath / Richard Beamish. — London : Bailliere, 1859


  
34. Compendium of Irish biography / Alfred Webb. — Dublin : Gill, 1878



  
35. Recollections of the late Dr Barter / by the author of 'Simple questions and sanitary facts'… . — Dublin : William McGee, 1875


  
36. Sanitas sanitatum et omnia sanitas. Vol.1 [all published] / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Co-operative Printing Co, 1877. — p.164


  
37. The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Simkin, Marshall, 1906. — pp.120-141


  
38. The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Simkin, Marshall, 1906. — pp.120-141


  
39. The water cure in chronic diseases / James Manby Gully. — 3rd ed. — 1856



  
40. The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Simkin, Marshall, 1906


  
41. Taking the cure / E S Turner — London : Michael Joseph, 1967. — pp.142-202



  
42. Practical hydropathy / John Smedley. — 12th ed. — London : Kent, 1870



  
43. Hydropathy: its principles and practice, for home use / Archibald Hunter. — Glasgow : Hay Nisbet, 1894


  
44. Asthma, consumption, & bronchitis treated by the water-cure and air bath / William MacLeod. — 2nd edition. — London : Robert Hardwicke, 1863


  
45. Hydropathy at home: the domestic practice of the water cure / Joseph Constantine. — Third ed, rev and enlarged. — Manchester, 1884


  
46. Recollections of the late Dr Barter / by the author of 'Simple questions and sanitary facts'… . — Dublin : William McGee, 1875. — p.17


  
47. 'Testimonial to R Barter, Esq, MD' Cork Constitution (7 June 1856) pp.ii-iii



  
48. 'The Turkish bath' [letter to the editor] / William Potter Sheffield Free Press (18 Jul 1857) p.3


  
49. 'The Turkish bath' [letter to the editor] / William Potter Free Press (22 Jul 1857) p.3



  
50. Slater's general and classified directory and street register of Manchester. — 1858. — Advertisements p.14


  
51. Improvements in heating and ventilating buildings, and in apparatus connected therewith / Richard Barter. — London : E & S, 1859. — (Letters Patent: 1859, 22th January; no.208)

  
52. Sanitas sanitatum et omnia sanitas. Vol.1 [all published] / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Co-operative Printing Co, 1877. — pp.166-8


  
53. Ulysses / James Joyce. — London : Bodley Head, 1955. — p.78



  
54. 'New baths, Lincoln-Place' Dublin Builder (1 Jan 1860)



  
55. Ulysses / James Joyce. — London : Bodley Head, 1955. — p.672; p.636



  
56. The Turkish bath or hot-air bath / George Wyld. — London : Leath & Ross, 1860. — p.12


  
57. The Turkish bath: its design and construction / R Owen Allsop. — London : Spon, 1890. — pp.27-9


  
58. 'Opening of Turkish baths in Brighton' Builder (24 Oct 1868). — p.786



  
59. 'Opening of the new Turkish baths at North Shields' Shields Daily News (17 Jul 1869). — p.4


  
60. The University Pitt Club, 1835-1935 / Walter Morley Fletcher. — Cambridge : CUP, 1935


  
61. 'Entire fittings…: [advertisement]' Cambridge Chronicle   (14 May 1864). — p.5



  
62. 'Opening of the Turkish baths' Cambrian (15 Apr 1864)



  
63. 'Reformed Roman or oriental baths …: [advertisement]' Post
Office directory of Glasgow
. — 1863. — p.171


  
64. 'Jack's Roman or Turkish baths …: [advertisement]' Post Office directory of Glasgow. — 1864. — p.166


  
65. Post Office directory of Glasgow. — 1859



  
66. 'Turkish bath …: [advertisement]' Northern Advertiser (1 Jan 1861) p.2



  
67. 'Sciennes Hill Baths' Scottish press (11 Oct 1859) Quoted in: Aberdeen Water Cure Journal vol.1; pp.232-3


  
68. Roman or Turkish baths / James Lawrie. — Edinburgh : MacLachlan & Stewart, 1864. — p.38


  
69. The Turkish bath, with a view to its introduction in the British Dominions / David Urquhart. — London : David Bryce, 1856


  
70. Roman or Turkish bath: its hygienic and curative properties / William Potter. — London : Simkin & Marshall, 1859


  
71. An illustrated guide to the Turkish baths, medicated and other baths... / Charles Bartholomew. — London : Marshall, 1887


  
72. On the modified Turkish and vapour bath and its value in certain diseases of the skin / John Laws Milton. — London, 1873


  
73. The Turkish bath: an antidote for the cravings of the drunkard / A, J. [ie, John Abel] — Dublin : Webb, 1859. — (Tracts on the drink question; no.1)


  
74. Manual of the Turkish bath: heat a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals, from the writings of Mr Urquhart / edited by Sir John Fife . — London : Churchill, 1865

  
75. The Eastern, or Turkish bath: its history, revival in Britain and application to the purpose of health / Erasmus Wilson. — London : John Churchill, 1861


  
76. The Sweating cure: the physiological basis and curative effects / John Balbirnie. — 2nd ed. — Southport : The author, 1864


  
77. The Turkish bath / Frederic Collins Coley. - London : Walter Scott, 1887



  
78. The Anglo-Roman or 'Turkish bath': its history, proper construction, present status and various uses / Francis Drake. — London : Ward & Lock, 1862


  
79. The rise and progress of hydropathy in England and Scotland / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Simkin, Marshall, 1906


  
80. Sanitas sanitatum et omnia sanitas. Vol.1 [all published]/ Richard Metcalfe. — London : Co-operative Printing Co, 1877


  
81. Fifty years of the water cure, with autobiographical notes / Joseph Constantine. — Manchester : John Heywood, 1892


  
82. The philosophy of the bath, or air and water in health and disease / Durham Dunlop. — London : Simpkin Marshall, 1868


  
83. The Turkish bath: its design and construction / R Owen Allsop. — London : Spon, 1890



  
84. 'The Finnish sauna: a special issue' Annals of Clinical Research (Helsinki) 4 (1988)



  
85. 'Turkish baths: public meeting in Cork' Cork Examiner (23 Jul 1856) p.iv



  
86. 'Turkish baths' Irish Times (09 Feb 1860)



  
87. Lecture on the action and uses of the Turkish baths: for the use of beginners / John Le Gay Brereton. — 4th ed. — London : John Lane, 1860

  
88. The functions of the skin, and the value of the bath, with special reference to the improved Turkish bath / Richard Beamish. — London : Bailliere, 1859

  
89. 'Thermo-therapeia (the heat-cure): or, the treatment of disease by immersion of the body in heated air' / Erasmus Wilson British Medical Journal (13 Oct 1860)


  
90.  'Lecture on the revival of the Turkish, or ancient Roman bath' / T Spencer Wells Medical Times and Gazette (03 Nov 1860)

  
91. Letter from John Le Gay Brereton to David Urquhart, 10 Jul 1860. — Wellcome Institute: Western MS.6236/21


  
92. The history and description of the Turkish bath, and its hygienic and medical use / Charles Bartholomew. — Bristol : Wright, 1863


  
93. The Turkish bath in health, sickness, convalescence / Charles Bartholomew. — London : Ward, 1869


  
94. The Turkish bath: being a lecture delivered in the Mechanics' Institute, Bradford on 8 July 1858 / Richard Barter. — Bradford : Jowett, 1858


  
95. 'Rochdale' Free Press (25 Mar 1857)



  
96. 'Subscription Turkish baths' Rochdale Observer (19 Nov 1859)



  
97. 'The Turkish bath' / Dominic Madden Dublin Hospital Gazette (16 Jan 1860) pp.17-22



  
98. Life in a tub / 'DIOGENHS' (Diogenes). — 3rd ed, revised and enlarged. — Dublin : McGee, 1858


  
99. New Irish bath versus the old Turkish, or, pure air versus vapour / edited by Photophilus. — Dublin : William McGee, 1860


  
100. The philosophy of the bath, or air and water in health and disease / Durham Dunlop. — London : Simpkin Marshall, 1868


  
101. 'The Roman bath' The Lancet (5 Jan 1861)



  
102. 'The Turkish bath' / Edward J Tilt The Lancet (12 Jan 1861)



  
103. 'The Turkish bath' / Robert Wollaston The Lancet (19 Jan 1861)



  
104. 'The Turkish bath' / Henry Walter Kiallmark The Lancet (19 Jan 1861)



  
105. 'Physiological and therapeutic action of the Turkish bath' / J L W Thudichum British Medical Journal (02 Feb 1861)


  
106. 'The Turkish bath' / Robert Wollaston British Medical Journal (23 Feb 1861)



  
107. 'The Turkish bath' / Edward Haughton British Medical Journal (9 Mar 1861) p.267



  
108. 'Treatment of disease by heat' / I G Douglas Kerr Journal of Balneology and Climatology (Apr 1899) pp.130-135


  
109. 'Public baths, Bury' Bury Times (5 Nov 1864)



  
110. 'Opening baths on Sundays' / William Cooper Bury Times (19 Nov 1864)


  
111. 'William Bishop and the Putney Baths' / Peter Thomas Wandsworth Historian 47 (1986)



  
112. 'Turkish baths, London' Builder (10 Jan 1885)



  
113. Fifty years of the water cure, with autobiographical notes / Joseph Constantine. — Manchester : John Heywood, 1892. — p.33


  
114. Improvements in the construction of stoves… / Thomas Whitaker and Joseph Constantine. — London : E&S, 1866. — (Letters Patent: 1866, 24th September; no.2448)

  
115. 'On the heating and ventilation of Turkish baths' / J L Bruce  (1878)
pp.493-506


  
116. British directories: a bibliography and guide to directories… / G Shaw and A Tipper. — Leicester : University Press, 1989


  
117. A lecture on Turkish baths delivered before the members of the Balloon Society ... 26 March 1886 / Charles Bartholomew. — London : Marshall Brothers, 1886


  
118. Blitz over Westminster: City of Westminster Civil Defence bomb incident photographs, 1940-44 / text by Roy Harrison. — London : City of Westminster Libraries, 1990


  
119. Reminiscences of public life in Southampton, from 1866 to 1900 / James Lemon. — Revised by F J C Hearnshaw. — Southampton : Henry March Gilbert & Son, 1911



  
120. Bradford Sanitary, Baths and Cemetery Committee Minutes (1865) pp.20-21



  
121. Ashton centenary booklet, 1847-1947. — Ashton-under-Lyne : the Council, 1947. — p.99


  
122. Sanitas sanitatum et omnia sanitas. Vol.1 [all published]/ Richard Metcalfe. — London : Co-operative Printing Co, 1877. — p.169


  
123. Ashton-under-Lyne Council Minutes (21 Jan 1882)



  
124. Sanitas sanitatum et omnia sanitas. [all published] Vol.1 / Richard Metcalfe. — London : Co-operative Printing Co, 1877



  
125. 'Plans for new baths in Paddington' Builder (31 Jan 1874)



  
126. Annual report for 1864. — Newcastle : Royal Infirmary, 1865. — pp.12-13



  
127. Consumption arrested by the Turkish bath. — London : Robert Hardwicke, 1864



  
128. 'The Turkish bath in insanity' The Lancet (10 May 1862) p.494



  
129. 'Review of Erasmus Wilson's The Eastern or Turkish bath ' / C Lockhart Robertson Journal of Mental Science    (1861) pp.210-231


  
130. Perspiration by the Turkish bath as removing disease, with a preface and appendix / Charles Bryce. — 2nd ed. — Brighton : Treacher, 1869. — p.17


  
131. 'Notes of ten years experience in the use of the Turkish bath in the treatment of mental ill-health' / R Baker Journal of Mental Science (1889) pp.184-9


  
132. 'Notes of ten years experience in the use of the Turkish bath in the treatment of mental ill-health' / R Baker Journal of Mental Science (1889) pp.184-9


  
133. The Turkish, or Roman bath, in Leicester. — Leicester : Leicester Journal, 1861. — pp.8, 9


  
134. 'The Turkish bath' / Robert Wollaston Cork Daily Herald    (Sep 1859) p.48



  
135. 'Turkish bath as a means of training' / Henry John Rous Field (28 Apr 1860)



  
136.  The Anglo-Roman or 'Turkish bath': its history, proper construction, present status and various uses / Francis Drake. — London : Ward & Lock, 1862. — p.27



  
137. 'Turkish bath as a means of training' / Henry John Rous Field (28 Apr 1860) p.337



  
138. Hydropathy at home: the domestic practice of the water cure / Joseph Constantine. — Third ed, rev and enlarged. — Manchester : Heywood, 1884. — p.154


  
139. The Victorian railway / Jack Simmons. — London : Thames and Hudson, 1995. — p.69



  
140. While it is undoubtedly true that the Romans perfected the hypocaust, recent research shows that less developed forms have been dicovered in some earlier Greek baths. See: Greek baths and bathing culture: new discoveries and approaches edited by S K Lucore and Trümper (Leuven, Peeters, 2013)
  
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