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The Making of Victorian England
About this book
Based on the Ford Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 1960, the author describes some of the forces which created what we call `Victorian England'.
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Index
Additional Curates Society 1837, 186
agricultural workers:
preponderance in 1851 census, 113
standard of living, 115–16, 139, 225–6
agriculture:
capital needed for improvement, 218
disasters to, after 1874, 57, 244, 247, 250
income of gentry from, 215–17
American evangelism, 182–3, 188
American Revolution, 34, 283
Anti-corn Law League, 7–9, 47, 197–8
and tenant farmers, 125–6
and the Chartists, 135
Anti-Irish riots, 129
Arch, Joseph, 246, 250
army, the:
commissions in—
examinations for candidates, 266–7
sale of, 43, 219–20, 266–7
flogging in, 43
Ashley, Lord, 134, 157, see ‘Shaftesbury’
Attwood, Thomas, 125
Austen, Jane, 253–5, 262n
Bagehot, Walter, 48–51, 53, 55
Ballot Act 1872, 249
Baptists:
and municipal office, 161
difficulties after 1850, 188
progress before 1850, 184–5
revival after 1860, 189
Bentham, Jeremy, 19, 22, 34, 35, 98, 100
Beverley, S., 55
Birmingham:
and public health, 103
Political Union, 124–5
Unitarian Mayors, 161
See also ‘Chamberlain’ and ‘National Liberal Federation’
Board of Health, 45, 98, 101
Booth, Charles, 120, 139
Booth, William and Catharine, 189
borough engineer, first, of Liverpool, 101
Bourne, Hugh, 182
Bramah, Joseph, 81
Bridgewater, 55
Bright, John, 7, 42, 123, 136, 221, 288–9
Bristol, 103
Calne, 55
Cambridge University, 23, 39, 43, 255–8, 259, 263–4
Camp Meeting at Mow Cop, 182, 183...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE
- I THE TASK OF REVISION
- II PROGRESS AND SURVIVAL IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
- III THE INCREASE IN POPULATION
- IV THE NEW INDUSTR1Y AND THE NEW STATE
- V THE PEOPLE
- VI THE RELIGION OF THE PEOPLE
- VII THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY—OLD STYLE
- VIII THE NEW POLITICS AND THE NEW GENTRY
- IX AN EPILOGUE AND A RECAPITULATION
- APPENDIX: ON THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THE GENTRY IN THE PARLIAMENT OF 1841–47 BY W. O. AYDELOTTE
- INDEX