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A: HOME PAGE
B: TAKE A TURKISH BATH
	A list of Turkish baths which are still open
C: NOTICEBOARD
	About the author
	About the dedicatee
	About the website
	Bookmarking and printing pages
	Updating policy
	Citing the site and copyright matters
	What people say about the website
	Picture of the month archive
1: DEFINITION AND INTRODUCTION
	What is a Turkish bath, and why does it need a website?
	1: What is a Victorian Turkish bath?
	2: Why should it interest us?
	3: Aims of the website
	4: The information exchange
2: HISTORY OF THE VICTORIAN TURKISH BATH
	Section title pages include photographs of:
	Hot room at Cragside
	Minute Book of the London & Provincial Turkish Bath Co Ltd
	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 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
	London's first Victorian Turkish bath
	1: Introduction
	2: The first Turkish baths
	3: The first Turkish baths in London
	4: Charges and class
	5: London women and the bath
	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
	Provision of Turkish baths for animals in Victorian London and Middlesex
	1: The origin of the Victorian Turkish bath
	2: How animals came to have Turkish baths
	3: Baths for animals in London and Middlesex
	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
	The Turkish Bath Movement: clean in body and mind
	1: Introduction
	2: Urquhart, Barter, and St Ann's
	3: The Committees and The Free Press
	4: The Committees and their Turkish baths
	5: Clean in body and mind
	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
	The USA's first Victorian Turkish baths
	1: Dr Shepard & the first USA Turkish bath
	2: The First Manhattan Turkish bath
	—Shorter items
	England's first Victorian Turkish Bath
	The first Victorian Turkish Bath in an English private house
3:  VICTORIAN TURKISH BATH TOPICS
	Section title pages include:
	Caricature of a first-timer's visit to a Turkish bath.
	Dragon tattoo by Sutherland Macdonald;
	'Watch your weight' card
	Caricatures and cartoons: the lighter side of the Turkish bath
	1: Using the bath
	2: The bath in general
	3: Political cartoons
	'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
	Heritaging the Victorian Turkish bath
	1: Heritaging
	2: David Urquhart and Richard Barter
	3: Naming the bath
	4: Styling the bath
	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
	Sexual activity in the Jermyn Street Hammam
	1: Introduction
	2: A case study in literary criticism
	3: A case study in queer history   4: Perhaps after all?
	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
	A Bunch of baths books
	Cabinet baths: the DIY approach
	David and Harriet Urquhart: a team
	The Death of William Urquhart
	Earliest Turkish bath photos?
	Hot air: dry, humid, or steamy?
	Hydropathy and wet sheet packing
	James Joyce's Ulysses
	Letter from Constantinople
	Longfellow parody
	Mrs Doggett asks for more: the housekeeper's duties at 76 Jermyn Street
	Shakespeare takes a Turkish: a parody
	Steaming: the theatre moves to Harrogate Turkish Baths
	Turkish baths in fiction
	The Urquharts' bath at Riverside
	Verse and worse
	Which was Trollope's Jermyn St Turkish bath?
4: PERSONS CONNECTED WITH VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS
	Section title pages include images of:
	Thomas Gibson BOWLES
	George ELSON
	Francis FRANCIS
	Major Robert POORE
	Dr Richard BARTER and St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment
	1: Dr Barter and the early years of St Ann's
5: PUBLIC COMPANIES INVOLVED WITH VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS
	Turkish bath companies
	The articles on individual companies are reached from:
	List of Limited Liability Companies, and Notes on dating them
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…
	Which Turkish baths are included, and how we found and dated them
	Finding the baths
	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 COUNTRY
	Scope of the country lists, including members of the European Union
	Australia
	Austria
	Belgium
	Canada
	Denmark
	France
	Germany
	Hungary
	India
	South Africa
	Sweden
	New Zealand
	USA
7: CHARIVARI
	Closures of Turkish baths, 1990—
	Currency and temperature conversion                  -o-o-o-o-o-o-
	Action for loss of a nose
	Ammunition store discovered in Irish Turkish bath
	Bath attendants, New York City, 1882
	Better than milk
	Carlisle baths Listed
	Child-Birth in a Turkish Bath
	Compulsory costumes in local authority baths
	Cooking in the Turkish bath
	Humour at Westminster?
	Music for the Turkish bath
	Survey of London: corrections to some Turkish bath entries
GLOSSARY
	List of terms included
IMAGES INDEX AND GALLERY
SOURCES CONSULTED
TWO-WAY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
	Thanks from you to us and from us to you
CONVERT MONEY AND TEMPERATURES
LINKS
	Links to other relevant sites
	Links to us from other sites
VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS—THE BOOK
	About the book
	Extras: web pages referred to in the book
	Pictures that didn't make it
	Amendments and revisions
	New information and updates
	Reviews and readers' comments
	Citations