Victorian Turkish Baths—the book
Citations
It is always pleasing to discover that something one has worked on has been found helpful or interesting—or even worth criticising.
Publications which cite the book cover an extremely wide, and sometimes
surprising, range of subjects:
Cooney
Gingold
Kent
Petri
Diaries
Thévoz
Foley
Simons
Sherwood-Fabre
Watson
Gender
Collins
Pearson
Hamam
Cessford
Palmer
Swindon Health Hydro
Studies
Anderson, Emma.‘The Hotel de Luxe’: the architectural and social significance of the ‘Grand Hotel’ in London 1860-1910. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, University of Oxford, 2019. Available online.
Bae, M. 'Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E W Lane and T R Allinson' History and philosophy of the life sciences (44; 51; 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00529-4 [Paywall]
Batra, Christina. The Ottoman bath between East and West: Islam, space, body, sex, health. Panteion University Diploma Thesis, 2019-2020
Blackwell, Matilda. Reading the bathroom in early twentieth-century women's writing. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Birmingham Uni-versity, 2021. Available online.
Cessford, Craig and Dickens, Alison. Medieval to modern suburban material culture and sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge: archaeological investigations of an eleventh-to twentieth-century suburb and town ditch. Supplementary material. (Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2019) (Cambridge Archaeological Unit urban archaeology series: the archaeology of Cambridge; vol.1) [BACK]
Collins, Julie. The architecture and landscape of health: a historical perspective on therapeutic places, 1790-1940. (London : Routledge, 2020) (Research in architectural history) [BACK]
Cooney, Rosanna. Sweat house: the new & the ancient Irish sauna tradition. (Dublin : Irelandia Press, 2025) [BACK]
De Angelis, Ariana. 'I bagni pubblici nelle fotografie inglesi e americane' In: La città, il viaggio, il turismo Percezione, produzione e trasformazione: atti del convegno VIII AISU Congress 7-9 settembre 2017 (Naples: CIRICE, 2017)
Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, provincial journalist. Volume 1: 1865-1887; edited by Andrew Hobbs. 2 vols. Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0262 [BACK]
Dyer, Liam. The London and North Western Railway Company and the Crewe Alexandra Club in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. Available online.
Edgar, James. Cowley Manor, Cowley, Gloucestershire: heritage statement Stathern: the author, 2017
Foley, Ronan. 'Therapeutic environments in nineteenth-century Ireland: hybrid spaces and practices' In: Nature and the environment in nineteenth-century Ireland; edited by Matthew Kelly (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019 [BACK]
Gelder, John. 'Roman building services and architectural manuals' In: Studies in the history of services and construction: the proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Construction History Society, Queens' College, Cambridge, 6-8 April 2018 (Cambridge: The society, 2018) [BACK]
Gingold, Kate. Agatha annotated: investigating the books of the 1920s: obscure terms and historical references in the works of Agatha Christie (Naperville, Il : Gnu Ventures, 2023) [BACK]
Harper, Esther Fiona. Fast horses: the racehorse in health, disease and afterlife, 1800–1920. Thesis submitted for PhD, Department of History, King's College London, 2018. Available online.
Jones, Charlotte. An historical geography of the Turkish bath in Victorian Britain. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Department of Geography, University College London, 2017. Available online.
Kent, Christopher. A delicate balance of power: Victorian tailors and their gentlemen clients in political and sartorial styles(Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023) [BACK]
Lawrence, Casey Maria. 'The new womanly man': cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Department of English, Trinity College Dublin, 2023. Available online.
Miller, Ian and Cook, Oliver. 'Coming out in the wash: investigating Manchester's public baths and wash-houses'. Industrial archaeology review (7 Sep 2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2021.1967572
National Heritage List for England: [Swindon] Health Hydro (former GWR Medical Fund Baths and Dispensary) (Swindon : Historic England, 2019) Available online.
National Heritage List for England: [London:] The Porchester Centre (Swindon : Historic England, 2019) Available online.
Palmer, Marilyn and West, Ian. Technology in the country house (Swindon: Historic England, 2016) [BACK]
Pasin, Burkay. 'Privacy, pleasure and homosociability: gendering of Victorian Turkish baths' In: Gender, space, place & culture: 7. International Conference on Gender Studies, 10-12 October 2019: Conference proceedings book (Famagusta: Center for Women’s Studies of the Eastern Mediterranean University, 2019) pp.55-75 [BACK]
Pasin, Burkay. 'The east in the west: still existing Victorian Turkish baths in the British Isles (1)' METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture (2023: 2) pp.153-171
Pasin, Burkay. 'The east in the west: Victorian Turkish baths in the British Isles' Hamam (1: Fall 2020) pp.48-57 [BACK]
Pasin, Burkay and Erk, G Kaçma. 'Het metabolisme van het Victoriaanse Turkse bad / The Metabolism of the Victorian Turkish Bath' OASE Journal of architecture (104: 2019) pp.22-31
Pearson, Christie. The architecture of bathing: body, landscape, art (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Pr, 2020) [BACK]
Petri, Olga. 'At the bathhouse: municipal reform and the bathing commons in late imperial St. Petersburg' Journal of historical geography (51: Jan 2016) pp.40–51
Petri, Olga. Places of tenderness and heat: the queer milieu of fin-de-siècle St. Petersburg. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022) [BACK]
Sherwood-Fabre, Liese. The Life and times of Sherlock Holmes: essays on Victorian England. Volume Two. (The Colony, Tx: Little Elm Pr, 2018) [BACK]
Simons, Judy. The Northern line: the history of a provincial Jewish family. (Market Harborough: Troubador, 2020) [BACK]
Şi̇vi̇loğlu, Murat R. 'A ‘Turk’ in eighteenth-century Dublin: the rise and fall of Doctor Achmet Borumborad'. Irish historical studies (48;174:2024) pp.250-268
Swindon Health Hydro: conservation management plan, March 2018 (Bath : Donald Insall Associates, 2018) [BACK]
Thévoz, Seth Alexander. Behind closed doors: the secret life of London private members' clubs. (London: Robinson, 2022) [BACK]
Tsonis, Jack. 'Another city, another sauna: travel as saunatarian praxis'. Fieldwork in religion (13;1:2018) pp.81-106
Tsonis, Jack. 'Sauna studies as an academic field: a new agenda for international research'. Literature & aesthetics(26:2016) pp.41–82
Valen, Dustin. 'Toward an architecture of air and steam: climate, bathing, and public health in Victorian Britain'. Journal of architectural education (76;1:2022) pp.21-36
Watson, Sophie. City water matters: cultures, practices and entanglements of urban water (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) [BACK]
Bae, M. 'Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E W Lane and T R Allinson' History and philosophy of the life sciences (44; 51; 2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00529-4 [Paywall]
Batra, Christina. The Ottoman bath between East and West: Islam, space, body, sex, health. Panteion University Diploma Thesis, 2019-2020
Blackwell, Matilda. Reading the bathroom in early twentieth-century women's writing. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Birmingham Uni-versity, 2021. Available online.
Cessford, Craig and Dickens, Alison. Medieval to modern suburban material culture and sequence at Grand Arcade, Cambridge: archaeological investigations of an eleventh-to twentieth-century suburb and town ditch. Supplementary material. (Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2019) (Cambridge Archaeological Unit urban archaeology series: the archaeology of Cambridge; vol.1) [BACK]
Collins, Julie. The architecture and landscape of health: a historical perspective on therapeutic places, 1790-1940. (London : Routledge, 2020) (Research in architectural history) [BACK]
Cooney, Rosanna. Sweat house: the new & the ancient Irish sauna tradition. (Dublin : Irelandia Press, 2025) [BACK]
De Angelis, Ariana. 'I bagni pubblici nelle fotografie inglesi e americane' In: La città, il viaggio, il turismo Percezione, produzione e trasformazione: atti del convegno VIII AISU Congress 7-9 settembre 2017 (Naples: CIRICE, 2017)
Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, provincial journalist. Volume 1: 1865-1887; edited by Andrew Hobbs. 2 vols. Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0262 [BACK]
Dyer, Liam. The London and North Western Railway Company and the Crewe Alexandra Club in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. Available online.
Edgar, James. Cowley Manor, Cowley, Gloucestershire: heritage statement Stathern: the author, 2017
Foley, Ronan. 'Therapeutic environments in nineteenth-century Ireland: hybrid spaces and practices' In: Nature and the environment in nineteenth-century Ireland; edited by Matthew Kelly (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019 [BACK]
Gelder, John. 'Roman building services and architectural manuals' In: Studies in the history of services and construction: the proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Construction History Society, Queens' College, Cambridge, 6-8 April 2018 (Cambridge: The society, 2018) [BACK]
Gingold, Kate. Agatha annotated: investigating the books of the 1920s: obscure terms and historical references in the works of Agatha Christie (Naperville, Il : Gnu Ventures, 2023) [BACK]
Harper, Esther Fiona. Fast horses: the racehorse in health, disease and afterlife, 1800–1920. Thesis submitted for PhD, Department of History, King's College London, 2018. Available online.
Jones, Charlotte. An historical geography of the Turkish bath in Victorian Britain. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Department of Geography, University College London, 2017. Available online.
Kent, Christopher. A delicate balance of power: Victorian tailors and their gentlemen clients in political and sartorial styles(Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023) [BACK]
Lawrence, Casey Maria. 'The new womanly man': cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries. Unpublished thesis submitted for PhD, Department of English, Trinity College Dublin, 2023. Available online.
Miller, Ian and Cook, Oliver. 'Coming out in the wash: investigating Manchester's public baths and wash-houses'. Industrial archaeology review (7 Sep 2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2021.1967572
National Heritage List for England: [Swindon] Health Hydro (former GWR Medical Fund Baths and Dispensary) (Swindon : Historic England, 2019) Available online.
National Heritage List for England: [London:] The Porchester Centre (Swindon : Historic England, 2019) Available online.
Palmer, Marilyn and West, Ian. Technology in the country house (Swindon: Historic England, 2016) [BACK]
Pasin, Burkay. 'Privacy, pleasure and homosociability: gendering of Victorian Turkish baths' In: Gender, space, place & culture: 7. International Conference on Gender Studies, 10-12 October 2019: Conference proceedings book (Famagusta: Center for Women’s Studies of the Eastern Mediterranean University, 2019) pp.55-75 [BACK]
Pasin, Burkay. 'The east in the west: still existing Victorian Turkish baths in the British Isles (1)' METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture (2023: 2) pp.153-171
Pasin, Burkay. 'The east in the west: Victorian Turkish baths in the British Isles' Hamam (1: Fall 2020) pp.48-57 [BACK]
Pasin, Burkay and Erk, G Kaçma. 'Het metabolisme van het Victoriaanse Turkse bad / The Metabolism of the Victorian Turkish Bath' OASE Journal of architecture (104: 2019) pp.22-31
Pearson, Christie. The architecture of bathing: body, landscape, art (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Pr, 2020) [BACK]
Petri, Olga. 'At the bathhouse: municipal reform and the bathing commons in late imperial St. Petersburg' Journal of historical geography (51: Jan 2016) pp.40–51
Petri, Olga. Places of tenderness and heat: the queer milieu of fin-de-siècle St. Petersburg. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022) [BACK]
Sherwood-Fabre, Liese. The Life and times of Sherlock Holmes: essays on Victorian England. Volume Two. (The Colony, Tx: Little Elm Pr, 2018) [BACK]
Simons, Judy. The Northern line: the history of a provincial Jewish family. (Market Harborough: Troubador, 2020) [BACK]
Şi̇vi̇loğlu, Murat R. 'A ‘Turk’ in eighteenth-century Dublin: the rise and fall of Doctor Achmet Borumborad'. Irish historical studies (48;174:2024) pp.250-268
Swindon Health Hydro: conservation management plan, March 2018 (Bath : Donald Insall Associates, 2018) [BACK]
Thévoz, Seth Alexander. Behind closed doors: the secret life of London private members' clubs. (London: Robinson, 2022) [BACK]
Tsonis, Jack. 'Another city, another sauna: travel as saunatarian praxis'. Fieldwork in religion (13;1:2018) pp.81-106
Tsonis, Jack. 'Sauna studies as an academic field: a new agenda for international research'. Literature & aesthetics(26:2016) pp.41–82
Valen, Dustin. 'Toward an architecture of air and steam: climate, bathing, and public health in Victorian Britain'. Journal of architectural education (76;1:2022) pp.21-36
Watson, Sophie. City water matters: cultures, practices and entanglements of urban water (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) [BACK]
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