Ardwick, Manchester, ref1
Argyll, George Campbell, 8th duke of, ref1
army: reforms under Cardwell, ref1
Arnold, Matthew, ref1, ref2; Culture and Anarchy, ref1; ‘Dover Beach’ (poem), ref1; Essays in Criticism, ref1
Arnold, Thomas, ref1
Arrow (ship), ref1
art: and human emotion and behaviour, ref1
art nouveau, ref1
Artisans’ Dwellings Act (1875), ref1
Ashanti people (West Africa), ref1
Asquith, Herbert Henry, ref1
Atlantic cable, ref1
Attwood, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3
Austria: war in Italy, ref1; war with France (1860), ref1; belligerence, ref1
Babbage, Charles, ref1
baby-farming, ref1
Baden-Powell, Lieut. General Robert, ref1
Bagehot, Walter, ref1, ref2; The English Constitution, ref1
Bahadur Shah, king of Delhi, ref1
Bailey, Philip James: Festus, ref1
Balaclava, Battle of (1854), ref1
Balfour, Arthur James, ref1, ref2, ref3
Balkans: crisis (1876), ref1
Baring, Alexander, ref1
Baring, Sir Evelyn (earl of Cromer), ref1; Modern Egypt, ref1
Bazalgette, Joseph, ref1
Bean, John William, ref1
beards and moustaches, ref1
Beardsley, Aubrey, ref1
Beaumont, Gustave de, ref1
Beckett, Samuel, ref1
Bedchamber Crisis, ref1
Beerbohm, Max, ref1, ref2; ‘Enoch Soames’ (story), ref1
Beeton, Isabella Mary: Book of Household Management, ref1
Beit, Alfred, ref1
Bell, Alexander Graham, ref1
Bell, Andrew, ref1
Bennett, Arnold, ref1
Bentham, Jeremy, ref1
Bentinck, Lord George, ref1, ref2, ref3
Berlin Congress (1878), ref1, ref2
Besant, Annie, ref1, ref2
Bible, Holy: critical study of, ref1
Birmingham: workshops, ref1, ref2; governance, ref1; Prince Albert visits, ref1; population, ref1; Joseph Chamberlain in, ref1
Birmingham Political Union, ref1, ref2
Birmingham Star, ref1
Bismarck, Prince Otto von, ref1, ref2
Black Dwarf (periodical), ref1
Blackwood’s Magazine, ref1
Blondin, Charles, ref1
‘Bloody Sunday’ (13 November 1887), ref1
Boer Wars: First (1880), ref1; Second (1899–1902), ref1, ref2
Bolívar, Simon, ref1
Booth, Charles: Life and Labour of the People in London, ref1
Bowring, Sir John, ref1
Boycott, Captain Charles Cunningham, ref1
Bradford, ref1, ref2
Bradlaugh, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3
brass bands, ref1
bread: prices, ref1
Bright, Sir Charles, ref1
Bright, John: criticizes Reform Bill, ref1; opposes Corn Laws, ref1; and Chartist protests, ref1; and Aberdeen’s concern over Russo-Turkish war, ref1; and Gladstone’s reform proposals, ref1; on Gladstone’s legislation, ref1; on public speeches, ref1; death, ref1; condemns bombardment of Alexandria, ref1
Brighton, ref1; Pavilion, ref1
Britain: popular disaffection and unrest, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; birth-rate and population increase, ref1; corruption condemned, ref1; constitution, ref1; improved trade, ref1, ref2; manufacturing dominance, ref1; colonial possessions, ref1; social reforms, ref1, ref2, ref3; individual physique, ref1; economic boom (1844–), ref1; emigration to America, ref1; in Crimean War, ref1; economic decline (1841), ref1; (1870), ref1, ref2; collective activities, ref1; radicalism develops, ref1; isolation in Boer War, ref1
British and Foreign Schools Society, ref1
British Museum: Reading Room, ref1
Brontë, Charlotte: visits Great Exhibition, ref1; Shirley, ref1
Brougham, Henry, Baron: defends Queen Caroline, ref1; anti-slavery, ref1; on urban life, ref1; on middle classes, ref1; Discourse on the Objects, Advantages and Pleasures of Science, ref1
Brown, Ford Madox: The Last of England (painting), ref1
Brown, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, ref1
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, ref1
Bryant and May match factory, ref1; women strike, ref1
Buckle, G. E., ref1
Buksh, Mahomet (munshi), ref1
Bulgaria: revolts against Turkey, ref1
Bullen, Frank, ref1
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3; The Last Days of Pompeii, ref1, ref2
Burdett, Sir Francis, ref1
Burke, Edmund, ref1, ref2, ref3
Burns, John, ref1, ref2
Butler, Samueclass="underline" Erewhon, ref1; The Way of All Flesh, ref1
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron: on cant, ref1; political poetry, ref1; Don Juan, ref1
Cambridge University: religious restrictions, ref1
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, ref1, ref2
canals, ref1
Canning, George: attends lectures on finance, ref1; political achievements, ref1, ref2; supports South American independence movement, ref1; favours Catholic emancipation, ref1; on Corn Law, ref1; illness after duke of York’s funeral, ref1; succeeds Liverpool as prime minister, ref1, ref2; death, ref1; loses seat in Parliament, ref1
cant: as national characteristic, ref1
Canton, first Battle of (1857), ref1
Cape Colony, ref1
Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of, ref1, ref2
Cardwell, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3
Carlyle, Thomas: on rise of machines, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; praises Gladstone, ref1; time-spirit, ref1; on Manchester cotton mills, ref1; criticizes Great Exhibition, ref1; on public opinion, ref1; nostalgia for medievalism, ref1; on ‘pig prosperity’, ref1; language, ref1; moral content, ref1; on work imperative, ref1; Chartism, ref1
Caroline, queen of George IV, ref1, ref3, ref4
Carroll, Lewis, ref1
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount: as foreign minister, ref1; controls Commons, ref1; on Holy Alliance, ref1; Shelley satirizes, ref1; and attack on Prince Regent, ref1; hassled by London mob, ref1; opposes taxation, ref1; non-involvement in European revolutions, ref1; and George IV’s reaction to wife’s death, ref1; suicide, ref1
Catholic Association (Ireland), ref1, ref2, ref3
Catholic emancipation: as political issue, ref1, ref2, ref3; accepted, ref1, ref2
Catholic Relief Bill (1829), ref1
Catholics: stand for election, ref1; Peel supports, ref1; hierarchy and bishoprics re-established in England and Wales, ref1; see also Anglo-Catholicism
Cato Street Conspiracy (1820), ref1
cattle plague, ref1
Cavendish, Lord Frederick, ref1
Cawnpore, ref1
Cecil, Lord David, ref1
Central Board of Health: established (1848), ref1
Ceylon (Sri Lanka): mortality, ref1
Chadwick, Edwin: Report on the Condition of the Labouring Classes of Great Britain, ref1
Chalmers, Walter, ref1
Chamberlain, Joseph: reorganizes Birmingham, ref1; rise to prominence, ref1; relations with Gladstone, ref1; on Irish problem, ref1; in Gladstone’s cabinet, ref1; political principles, ref1; on Salisbury’s cabinet, ref1; forms coalition under Salisbury, ref1; questions Gladstone on Home Rule Bill, ref1; and Second Boer War, ref1, ref2; on British isolation, ref1
Chapman, Elizabeth, ref1
Charity Organisation Society, ref1
Chartists, Chartism: as protest movement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; General Convention (1839), ref1, ref2; National Petition, ref1; influence on social reform, ref1; call for general strike (1843), ref1; Kennington Common demonstration (1848), ref1; protest at Sunday Trading Bill, ref1
Cheltenham, ref1
Chesterton, G. K., ref1
Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley, ref1, ref2
children: legislation on labour, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; education, ref1
China: and Second Opium War, ref1
cholera: outbreaks, ref1, ref2
choral societies, ref1
Chorley, Henry, ref1
Christian Socialism, ref1
Christianity: prevalence, ref1
Church, Richard William, dean of St Paul’s, ref1
Church of England (Anglican): lacks enthusiasm, ref1; and dissenting churches, ref1; and Catholic emancipation, ref1; and Anglo-Catholicism, ref1; materialism, ref1; ritualism, ref1; and educational reform, ref1
Church of Ireland: disestablished, ref1
churches: one hundred new, ref1; attendance and decorum in, ref1
Churchill, Jane, Lady, ref1