Peep-o-Day Boys, ref1
penal system: changes, ref1
penny post, ref1
Perceval, Spencer: assassinated, ref1; son protests in parliament, ref1
Peterloo Massacre (Manchester, 1819), ref1, ref2
philanthropic societies, ref1
Phoenix Park, Dublin, ref1
photography, ref1
Piedmont: revolution, ref1
Pinney, Anna Maria, ref1
Pitt, William, the Younger, ref1
Pius IX, Pope: re-establishes Catholic Church in England and Wales, ref1
Place, Francis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Plug Riots (or Plug Plot Riots, 1842), ref1
Poland: civil war (1863), ref1
police: resistance to establishment of, ref1, ref2; anti-crowd actions, ref1
Police Act (1839), ref1
Polytechnic Institution, London, ref1
poor, the: conditions, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; rural, ref1; relief, ref1; numbers, ref1; and children, ref1
Poor Law: reform, ref1, ref2; (New, 1834), ref1, ref2, ref3; commissioners, ref1
Poor Law Board: established (1847), ref1
Pope, Alexander: Windsor Forest, ref1
population: increase, ref1, ref2
Port of London: closed (1888), ref1
Portugaclass="underline" revolution, ref1
post see penny post
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, ref1
Primrose League, ref1
prisons: treadmills introduced, ref1
professions, ref1
prostitution, ref1, ref2
protectionism: and Corn Laws, ref1; Peel opposes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Bentinck supports, ref1; and agricultural workers, ref1; Conservatives divided on, ref1, ref2; Derby supports, ref1; Disraeli’s attitude to, ref1; Argyll on, ref1; see also free trade
Prussia: and unification of Germany, ref1; defeats France (1870), ref1
public health, ref1
Public Health Act (1875), ref1
public services: regulation and inspection, ref1
Pugin, Edward Welby, ref1
Punch (magazine), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Punjab: Dalhousie annexes, ref1
Pusey, Edward, ref1
Quadruple Alliance (1815), ref1, ref3
Quakers see Friends, Society of
Quarterly Review: on rise of Conservatives, ref1; on Derby’s government, ref1
Raglan, Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, Baron, ref1, ref2, ref3
Railway Regulation Act (1844), ref1
railways: development and effect, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; first fatal accident, ref1; control and management, ref1; install telegraph system, ref1; investment and speculation in, ref1, ref2; in art, ref1; excursions, ref1; as image of the day, ref1
Reade, Charles, ref1
Redistribution of Seats Act (1885), ref1
Reform Acts and Bills (1831–2), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; (1867), ref1, ref2, ref3
Reform League, ref1
register of births, marriages and death: created (1836), ref1
Reid, Sir James, ref1
religion: and church attendance, ref1; pervasiveness and variety, ref1, ref2; and belief, ref1; and biblical criticism, ref1; see also Christianity; Church of England; Oxford Movement
revolutions of 1848, ref1
Reynolds’ News, ref1, ref2
Rhodes, Cecil, ref1, ref2
Ribbonmen (Ireland), ref1
Richmond, Charles Gordon Lennox, 5th duke of, ref1
Richmond, Charlotte Lennox, dowager duchess of, ref1
Ridgeway, Battle of (1866), ref1
rinderpest (cattle plague), ref1
Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh, ref1
Roberts, William Prowting, ref1
Robertson, Frederick, ref1
Robey, George, ref1
Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, ref1
Rocket (steam locomotive), ref1
Roebuck, John Arthur (‘Tear ’em’), ref1, ref2
Roman Catholic see Catholic
Roman Catholic Relief Act (1791), ref1
Rosebery, Archibald John Primrose, 4th earl of, ref1, ref2
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of: castigates Disraeli over Turkey settlement, ref1; and Gladstone’s Midlothian campaign, ref1; and Bright’s criticism of bombardment of Alexandria, ref1; on minority government (1885), ref1; and Gladstone’s prediction on Ireland, ref1; as chairman of London County Council, ref1; on Gladstone’s retaining power in old age, ref1; character and qualities, ref1; as prime minister (1894–5), ref1; collapse, ref1; on Liberal party, ref1; gives up leadership of Liberals, ref1
Rothschild, Nathan, ref1
Rothschild family, ref1
Rowntree, Seebohm, ref1
Royal Academy: Exhibition (1855), ref1
Royal Commission on the Health of Towns (1843–4), ref1
Royal Commission on the Poor Laws (1832), ref1
Royal Navy see navy
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, ref1
Ruskin, John: character, ref1; criticizes Great Exhibition, ref1; nostalgia for medievalism, ref1; style, ref1; moral content, ref1; imperialism, ref1; on Tichborne case, ref1; The Stones of Venice, ref1
Russell, John, 1st Earl (earlier Lord John Russell): proposes Test Act (1828), ref1; introduces 1831 Reform Bill, ref1; health failure and resignation, ref1; and Irish question, ref1; and Whig weakness, ref1; leads party in Commons, ref1; opposes changes to Reform Act, ref1; political ambitions, ref1; and Melbourne’s indecisiveness, ref1; pledges to repeal Corn Laws, ref1; debating, ref1; Peel supports, ref1; succeeds Peel as prime minister, ref1; reforms, ref1; and Victoria’s view of Palmerston, ref1; orders Palmerston to resign, ref1; condemns pope’s re-establishment of Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales, ref1; resigns (1852), ref1; as foreign secretary under Aberdeen, ref1; and outbreak of Crimean War, ref1; resigns over Crimean War (1854), ref1; in Palmerston’s government, ref1; in opposition, ref1; and reorganization of Liberal party, ref1; Victoria deprecates, ref1; and Victoria’s withdrawal from public life, ref1; as foreign secretary under Palmerston, ref1; succeeds Palmerston as prime minister (1865), ref1; electoral reform proposals, ref1; resigns Liberal leadership, ref1
Russell, William Howard, ref1
Russia: in Crimean War, ref1; claims on Poland, ref1; wars with Turkey (1853–5), ref1, ref2; (1877), ref1
Sacramental Test Act (1828), ref1
St Barnabas church, Pimlico, London, ref1
St Paul’s Cathedraclass="underline" condition, ref1
Salford: army barracks bombed by Fenians, ref1
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of (earlier Viscount Cranborne): on telegraph, ref1; on industrial Conservatism, ref1; on tensions between constitution and democracy, ref1; on Disraeli’s parliamentary reform proposals, ref1; on English resignation, ref1; as secretary of state for India, ref1; Joseph Chamberlain attacks, ref1; as foreign secretary, ref1; on Gladstone’s premiership (1880), ref1; on Irish troubles, ref1; as successor to Disraeli, ref1; succeeds Gladstone as prime minister, ref1, ref2, ref3; leads minority government, ref1; accepts Randolph Churchill’s resignation, ref1; and Irish question, ref1; and Chamberlain’s coalition, ref1; on peace in Ireland, ref1; resigns (1892), ref1; forms government (1895), ref1; and Jameson raid, ref1; and Second Boer War, ref1, ref2; on living and dying nations, ref1; character and appearance, ref1; returned to government (1900), ref1
Salvation Army, ref1
San Stefano, Treaty of (1878), ref1
sanitation: improvements, ref1, ref2
Saturdays: leisure afternoons, ref1
Scarlett, General James Yorke, ref1