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Historic England
Pages
366

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Subjects
Baths, Architecture, turkey, Architecture, pictorial works, Turkish Baths, History

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Table of Contents

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

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RM821, RM821 .S55 2015

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 366
Number of pages
366
Dimensions
11.25 x 9 x 1.125 inches
Weight
170.7 grams

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OL26203011M
ISBN 13
9781848022300
OCLC/WorldCat
929684255

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