Churchill, Lord Randolph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
cigarettes: introduced, ref1
cinema: beginnings, ref1
cities and towns: conditions, ref1, ref3; politics, ref1, ref2
Clapham Sect, ref1, ref2
Clarence, William, duke of see William IV, King
Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, 4th earl of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
class (social): divisions, ref1, ref2, ref3
Clerk Maxwell, James: A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, ref1
Clerkenwell Explosion (1867), ref1
Cleveland Street Scandal (1889), ref1
Clive, Robert, Baron, ref1
Clough, Arthur Hugh, ref1
cooperative movement, ref1
Cooperative Wholesale Society, ref1
coal mines: working conditions, ref1
Cobbett, William: radicalism and reform proposals, ref1, ref2; denounces Six Acts, ref1; on Castlereagh’s suicide, ref1; resists inauguration of police force, ref1; on demonstrations following parliamentary reform, ref1; on effect of parliamentary reform, ref1; condemns development of modern transport, ref1; on spa towns, ref1; Rural Rides, ref1, ref2
Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cobden, Richard: opposes Corn Laws, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; on Peel, ref1; loses seat in Parliament, ref1; taunts Conservatives over Palmerston, ref1
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, ref1
Codrington, Admiral Sir Edward, ref1
Coercion Acts (‘Gagging Acts’, 1817), ref1; (1833), ref1
Cole, Henry, ref1
Colenso, John William, bishop of Natal, ref1
collectivism, ref1
Colley, General Sir George, ref1
Collins, Wilkie, ref1, ref2, ref3; The Woman in White, ref1
Colonial Society, ref1
Combination Acts (1799), ref1; (1825), ref1
Commons, House of: effect of 1832 Reform Act on, ref1; see also Parliament
Comte, Auguste, ref1
concentration camps: in South Africa, ref1
Concert of Europe, ref1
Conservative party: as name, ref1, ref2; under Peel, ref1; supports Corn Laws, ref1; forms government under Derby, ref1; as cohesive party, ref1; and reform proposals, ref1; government under Disraeli (1874), ref1; election defeat (1880), ref1, ref2; election victory (1895), ref1; pact with Liberal Unionists, ref1; see also Tory party
Conspiracy Bill (1858), ref1
Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869), ref1
corn: shortage, ref1; prices fall, ref1
Corn Law (1815), ref1
Corn Laws: utilitarians attack, ref1; repealed (1832), ref1, ref2, ref3; campaign against, ref1, ref3; Peel and, ref1, ref3; and Irish famine, ref1
Corporation Act (1828), ref1
Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion, ref1
courts of law: reformed, ref1
creation: ideas on, ref1
Crimean War (1854–6), ref1, ref3, ref4
Crimes Act (1887), ref1
Croker, John Wilson, ref1
Cromwell, Oliver, ref1
Cross, R. A., ref1
Crosse, Andrew, ref1
Crystal Palace see Great Exhibition
Cudworth, W. M.: Rambles Round Horton, ref1
Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, duke of, ref1
Cummings, A. N.: ‘On the Value of Political Economy to Mankind’, ref1
Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, ref1
Cyprus: Britain acquires, ref1
Daily Maiclass="underline" established, ref1
Daily News, ref1, ref2
Daily Telegraph, ref1
Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st marquess of, ref1
Dalton, John, ref1
Darwin, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3; On the Origin of Species, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dassett, Charles Edward, ref1
Davis, Jefferson, ref1
Davy, Humphry, ref1
death rates, ref1
debt: imprisonment discontinued, ref1
Defenders, the (Ireland), ref1
Delhi: in Indian Mutiny, ref1
Denmark: and loss of Schleswig-Holstein, ref1
de Quincey, Thomas: ‘The English Mail Coach’, ref1
Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th earl of (earlier Lord Edward Stanley): as colonial secretary, ref1; earldom, ref1; heads Conservative party, ref1; political programme, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; forms government (‘Who? Who? ministry’), ref1; calls summer election (1852), ref1; resigns (1852), ref1; on impending Russo-Turkish war, ref1; on war in China, ref1; as prime minister (1858–9), ref1; truce with Palmerston, ref1; and demand for electoral reform, ref1, ref2; third ministry (1866–8), ref1; on maintaining good relations with USA, ref1; resigns (1868), ref1; on Disraeli’s relations with Victoria, ref1; death, ref1
Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of: on Gladstone, ref1; as foreign secretary, ref1; resigns over Disraeli’s eastern policy, ref1; entertains Gladstone, ref1
Dickens, Charles: fictional characters, ref1; death, ref1; denounces English Sunday, ref1; on telegraph, ref1; Melbourne warns Victoria against, ref1; describes early Victorians, ref1; false bookshelves, ref1; on failure of ‘system’, ref1; parodies ‘hard facts’ education, ref1; on the poor, ref1; popular appeal, ref1; on readers at British Museum, ref1; favours South in American Civil War, ref1; Bleak House, ref1; Dombey and Son, ref1, ref2; The Old Curiosity Shop, ref1; The Pickwick Papers, ref1
difference engine (Babbage’s), ref1
Disraeli, Benjamin (1st earl of Beaconsfield): on Lord Liverpool, ref1; on nature of Whigs, ref1; on composition of Commons, ref1; on workhouses, ref1; on Irish question, ref1; on Peel’s shyness, ref1; enters parliament, ref1; overlooked by Peel, ref1; launches Young England movement, ref1; opposes Peel, ref1; on ‘two nations’, ref1; as protectionist, ref1; on industrial Conservatism, ref1; on Palmerston, ref1; manner, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; as party leader, ref1; on Catholicism in England, ref1; caricatures Palmerston, ref1; as chancellor of exchequer under Derby, ref1, ref2, ref2; budget defeated, ref1; on British dislike of coalitions, ref1; on Aberdeen, ref1; and Russo-Turkish war, ref1; on Crimean War, ref1; on failure of Aberdeen’s government, ref1; Gregory accuses of charlatanism, ref1; on upholding aristocracy, ref1; in ‘great stink’, ref1; parliamentary suffrage bill defeated (1859), ref1; truce with Palmerston, ref1; on role of Conservative party, ref1; on Gladstone’s support for reform, ref1; as leader in waiting, ref1, ref2, ref3; on reform following death of Palmerston, ref1; opposes parliamentary reform, ref1, ref2; political instincts, ref1; political practices, ref1, ref2; proposes enlarging franchise (household suffrage), ref1, ref2; appearance, ref1, ref2, ref3; caricatured, ref1; legislation, ref1, ref2; as prime minister (1868), ref1; relations with Victoria, ref1, ref2, ref3; rivalry with Gladstone, ref1; silence on Gladstone’s Irish Land Bill, ref1; on England as domestic country, ref1; election success (1874), ref1; health problems, ref1, ref2; receives earldom and leaves Commons, ref1; purchases Suez Canal shares, ref1; suggests Victoria become empress of India, ref1; and Balkan crisis (1876), ref1; Joseph Chamberlain mocks, ref1; attends Berlin Congress (1878), ref1, ref2; on Zulu war, ref1; Gladstone attacks in Midlothian campaign, ref1; on power of words, ref1; dissolves parliament (1880) and loses election, ref1; death, ref1; Coningsby, ref1, ref2; Endymion, ref1, ref2; Lothair, ref1; Sybil, ref1; Tancred, ref1
Dissenters (Nonconformists): as low church religion, ref1; Lord Liverpool legislates for further toleration, ref1; excluded by Test and Corporation acts, ref1; serve on town councils, ref1; oppose Corn Laws, ref1; influence, ref1; and public education, ref1; support Gladstone, ref1
Dissenters’ Marriage Bill (1836), ref1
Douglas, Lord Alfred, ref1
dress: and class, ref1, ref2
drink (alcoholic): effect, ref1
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of, ref1
dyes (synthetic), ref1
East India Company: rule in India, ref1; powers transferred to Crown, ref1
Eastern question, ref1
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill (1851), ref1
Eden, Emily, ref1
Edinburgh Review, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
education: of working classes, ref1; reform, ref1, ref2
Edward, Prince of Wales (Albert Edward; ‘Bertie’): Victoria’s attitude to, ref1; death of son, ref1; typhoid fever, ref1; tour of India, ref1