Victorian Turkish baths / Malcolm Shifrin.

Swindon : Historic England, 2015.

xviii, 366 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) , maps ; 29 cm

I. Background to the Victorian Turkish bath -- 1. Introduction: What is a Victorian Turkish bath? -- 2. Early communal hot-air baths -- 3. The British 'discovery' of the 'Turkish' bath -- II. Early history of the Victorian Turkish bath -- 4. The birth of the Roman-Irish, or Victorian Turkish bath -- 5. David Urquhart, his committees, and their Turkish baths -- 6. Dr Richard Barter and the bath in Ireland -- 7. The Victorian Turkish bath travels overseas -- 8. Building the Jermyn Street Hammam -- 9. The Jermyn Street Hammam, 1862-1941 -- III. Problems and attitudes -- 10. Early problems and controversies -- 11. 19th-century attitudes to the Victorian Turkish bath -- IV. Victorian Turkish baths for all -- 12. Ownership -- 13. Housing the Victorian Turkish bath -- 14. Commercial Turkish baths -- 15. Municipal Turkish baths -- 16. Turkish baths for the working classes -- 17. The Turkish bath in the workhouse -- 18. The Turkish bath in asylums -- 19. The Turkish bath in hospitals -- 20. The Turkish bath in hydros and hotels -- 21. Turkish baths for 'Members only' clubs -- 22. Turkish bath in private houses -- 23. The Turkish bath at sea -- 24. The portable Turkish bath -- 25. Turkish baths for animals -- V. The world of the bather -- 26. Victorian women and the Turkish bath -- 27. Victorian Turkish baths: 'sites of sex and sociability'? -- 28. Inside the Victorian Turkish bath -- 29. Advertising the Victorian Turkish bath -- VI. Victorian Turkish baths in the 21st century -- 30. . Victorian Turkish baths: today and tomorrow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-345) and indexes.