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A list of Turkish baths which are still open

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INTRODUCTION

  1: What is a Turkish bath?

  2: Why should it interest us?

  3: Aims of the website

  4: The information exchange

  5: Citing the website

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HISTORY OF THE VICTORIAN TURKISH BATH

Section title pages include photographs of: 

the hot room at Cragside;

the Minute Book of the London & Provincial

   Turkish Bath Co Ltd

The Arrival of the Turkish bath in 19C London

  1: Introduction

  2: The first Turkish baths

  3: The first Turkish baths in London

  4: Charges and class

  5: London women and the bath

Clean in body and mind: the Movement

  1: Introduction

  2: Urquhart, Barter, and St Anne's

  3: The Committees and The Free Press

  4: The Committees and their Turkish baths

  5: Clean in body and mind

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 First Victorian Turkish baths in New York

  1: Dr Shepard & the first Turkish bath in the USA

  2: The First Turkish bath in Manhattan

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

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

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

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

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Victorian Turkish bath TOPICS

Section title pages include:

dragon tattoo by Sutherland Macdonald;

caricature of a first-timer's visit to a Turkish bath.

'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

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

Caricatures and cartoons

David and Harriet Urquhart: a team

The Death of William Urquhart

Earliest Turkish bath photos?

Hydropathy and wet sheet packing

James Joyce's Ulysses

Ladies' night in a Turkish bath

Mrs Doggett asks for more: duties of the housekeeper at 76 Jermyn Street

Steaming: the theatre moves to Harrogate Turkish Baths

Turkish baths: hot, humid, or steamy?

Turkish baths in fiction

The Urquharts' bath at Riverside

Verse and worse

Which was Trollope's Jermyn St Turkish bath?

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PERSONS connected with Turkish baths

Section title pages include images of:

Francis Francis;

Thomas Gibson Bowles;

Major Robert Poore;

Some Turkish bath personalities

George Elson

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Public COMPANIES involved with Turkish baths

Section title pages include images of:

Share certificate of the Stroud Baths Society Ltd

Turkish bath companies

The articles on individual companies are reached from:

List of Limited Liability Companies  

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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 . . .

The directory, and what is included

How the Turkish baths in the directory have been found and dated

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 CONTINENT

Scope of the overseas lists        

Africa        

Australasia

Europe

North America

glOSSARY

List of terms included

Images index & picture gallery

Section title page includes:

weight table from the Imperial Hotel bedrooms

Links

Links to and from the site