Schleswig-Holstein, ref1
schools: and child education, ref1
science: intelligentsia lacks interest in, ref1; nonconformists dominate, ref1; popular appeal, ref1; Victorian concern with, ref1
Scott, Sir Walter, ref1
Scottish Labour party: established, ref1
Seacole, Mary, ref1
seaside: and leisure, ref1; towns, ref1
Sebastopol, ref1, ref2, ref3
servants, ref1
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of (earlier Lord Ashley): labour reform, ref1n; criticizes Victoria, ref1; criticizes Peel for non-cooperation, ref1; on employment in mines, ref1; on condition of working class, ref1; criticizes ritualism in Church of England, ref1; on Russo-Turkish war, ref1; humanitarianism, ref1; and Palmerston’s view of Gladstone, ref1; denies help to Derby, ref1
Shaw, George Bernard, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sheffield, ref1
Sheffield Female Anti-Slavery Society, ref1
Sheffield Mercury, ref1
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, ref1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, ref1; The Mask of Anarchy, ref1
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount: on distress in country, ref1; drinking, ref1; fears insurrection, ref1; on political economy, ref1
Sierra Leone: mortality, ref1
Sinope, Battle of (1854), ref1
Six Acts (1819), ref1
Six Points, ref1
slavery: abolition (1833), ref1, ref2; female petitions against, ref1
Smiles, Samuel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Self Help, ref1
Smith, Sydney, ref1
Smuts, Jan Christian, ref1, ref2
Snow, John, ref1
social conditions: legislation on, ref1
Social Democratic Federation, ref1, ref2, ref3
socialism, ref1, ref2
society: manners and behaviour, ref1
Society for the Diffusion of Intellect, ref1
Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, ref1, ref2
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ref1
South America: independence movement, ref1
Southey, Robert, ref1, ref2
Spa Fields, ref1
Spain: revolution, ref1; and loss of South American possessions, ref1
spas, ref1
Spectator (magazine), ref1
speed: as novelty, ref1, ref2
spiritualism, ref1, ref2
sport, ref1
Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil, ref1
Spurgeon, Charles, ref1
Stalin, Josef, ref1
stamp duty (on newspapers), ref1
Stanhope, Lady Hester, ref1
state, the: and individual liberty, ref1; assumes new powers, ref1
steam power, ref1, ref2
steel manufacture, ref1
Stephenson, George and Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3
Stewart, Charles see Londonderry, 3rd marquess of
Stirling, J. H.: The Secret of Hegel, ref1
Stockmar, Baron Christian, ref1
Stockport Cotton Jenny Spinners Union Society, ref1
Stockton–Darlington Railway, ref1
Stoker, Bram: Dracula, ref1
Strachey, Lytton, ref1; Eminent Victorians, ref1
street ballads, ref1
strikes (industrial), ref1, ref2, ref3
Sudan: uprising, ref1, ref2
Sunday Trading Bill (1855), ref1
Swing, Captain (fictional): and agricultural riots, ref1
Taine, Hippolyte, ref1
Tamworth Manifesto (1834), ref1
taxation, ref1, ref2
Tea Operatives and General Labourers Union, ref1
Tel-el-Kebir, Battle of (1882), ref1
telegraph (electric): developed, ref1, ref2; on railways, ref1
telephone: invented (1876), ref1
Temple Bar, ref1
Ten Hours Bill (1847), ref1
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: inspired by Arthurian epics, ref1; on black population, ref1; ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, ref1; Morte d’Arthur, ref1; ‘The Passing of Arthur’, ref1
Thackeray, William Makepeace: on Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed, ref1; contributes to Punch, ref1; Vanity Fair, ref1
Thames, river: cleansing, ref1, ref2; embankment, ref1; and ‘great stink’ (1858), ref1; tunnel, ref1
theatre: and political ideas, ref1
Theosophy, ref1
Thompson, George, ref1
Thorne, Will, ref1
Tichborne, Roger, ref1
Tierney, George, ref1
Tillett, Ben, ref1
Times, The: printed by steam power, ref1; on Peel’s resignation, ref1; on result of 1841 election, ref1; on Peel’s circle, ref1; on Aberdeen’s government, ref1; on mismanagement of Crimean War, ref1, ref2; on Florence Nightingale, ref1; on Disraeli’s view of working classes, ref1; on conduct of Commons business, ref1; and Salisbury’s party leadership in Lords, ref1; on Boer War, ref1
Tolpuddle Martyrs, ref1, ref2
Torquay, ref1
Tory party: differences from Whigs, ref1, ref3; calls general election (1818), ref1; mocks 1831 Reform Bill, ref1; attitudes to reform, ref1; belief in superiority of governing classes, ref1; members vote against Corn Laws repeal, ref1; see also Conservative Party
Town Improvement Company, ref1
towns see cities and towns
Tractarianism see Oxford Movement
Tracts for the Times, ref1
Trade Union Act (1871), ref1
trade unions: banned under 1799 Combination Act, ref1; beginnings, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; accepted, ref1; development, ref1; funded by middle class, ref1
Trades Union Congress (1888), ref1
Trafalgar Square, London: as centre of demonstrations, ref1, ref2
transport: undeveloped, ref1
Transvaaclass="underline" Boers in, ref1, ref2; gold in, ref1; in Second Boer War, ref1; ceded to Britain, ref1
Trelawny, John, ref1
Trevithick, Richard, ref1
Trollope, Anthony: on novel-reading, ref1; on unsanitary Thames, ref1; The Duke’s Children, ref1; Phineas Redux, ref1
Trotsky, Leon, ref1
Turgenev, Ivan, ref1
Turkey see Ottoman Empire
Turner, J. M. W.: Rain, Steam and Speed (painting), ref1, ref2
Twiss, Horace, ref1
unemployment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; see also poor, the
United States of America: cotton production, ref1; emigration to, ref1; Civil War breaks out (1861), ref1; effect on cotton manufacture, ref1, ref2
utilitarians: and Evangelicals, ref1
Vansittart, Nicholas, ref1
Vereeniging, Peace of (1902), ref1
Victoria, Queen (earlier Princess): birth, ref1; on Lord John Russell, ref1; journeys through England (as princess), ref1; temper, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; upbringing and character, ref1; complains of Palmerston, ref1; accession, ref1; relations with Melbourne, ref1, ref2; and Bedchamber Crisis, ref1; and Melbourne’s fall over Jamaica Bill, ref1; courtship and marriage to Albert, ref1; and 1841 election, ref1; criticized, ref1; assassination attempts on, ref1, ref2; opposed to Palmerston’s policies, ref1, ref2; visits to Ireland, ref1, ref2; and Don Pacifico affair, ref1; affronted by re-establishment of Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales, ref1; opens Great Exhibition, ref1; on Lord Derby, ref1; at Napoleon III’s state visit, ref1; rumoured madness, ref1; and death of Albert, ref1; withdraws from public life, ref1; and demand for electoral reform, ref1; good relations with Disraeli, ref1, ref2, ref3; distaste for Gladstone, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; rejects Gladstone’s suggestion for royal residence in Ireland, ref1; favours Prussians over French, ref1; and John Brown, ref1; regains public sympathy, ref1; opposes women’s rights, ref1; and Disraeli’s purchase of Suez Canal shares, ref1; sees telephone at Osborne House, ref1; on administration of Empire, ref1; letter from Gladstone on state of Ireland, ref1; speech in parliament on economic depression (1880), ref1; on lawlessness in Ireland, ref1; on fall of Khartoum, ref1; on Gladstone’s campaigning in 1886 election, ref1; golden jubilee (1887), ref1; booed in East End, ref1; on Gladstone in old age, ref1; accepts Gladstone’s resignation, ref1; on Rosebery and Liberal party, ref1; Diamond Jubilee (1898), ref1, ref2; on Boer War, ref1; ageing, ref1, ref2; visits Riviera, ref1; death, ref1; threatened by Fenians, ref1
Victoria Park, London, ref1
Victorian: as term, ref1
Vienna, Congress of (1815), ref1
Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, ref1
Wadsworth, Alfred, ref1
Wakefield, E. G.: A View of the Art of Colonisation, ref1
Ward, Lord Dudley, ref1