1. Background to the Victorian Turkish bath
2. Early history of the Victorian Turkish bath
3. Problems and attitudes
4. Victorian Turkish baths for all
5. The world of the bather
6. Victorian Turkish baths in the 21st century
Malcolm Shifrin is a former librarian and has written extensively on the fascinating history and sociology of the bath, producing magazine articles and academic papers as well as delivering lectures and talks
Retired librarian, Malcolm Shifrin has here produced a book that is
unrivalled in most of its architectural insights and social
understanding. It's a really good read ...
*Newsletter, Winter-Spring 2016 (01/2016)*
... Malcolm's coverage of the subject is comprehensive ...
*The Ephemerist 172, Spring 2016*
Malcolm Shifrin's Victorian Turkish Baths, an absorbing, scholarly
and generously illustrated book, is also an elegy for an almost
vanished piece of our social history and architectural
heritage.
*RIBA Friends of Architecture, April 2016*
... his book is so appealing to the eye and so full of fascinating
information that those with a more general interest in the
Victorian period, or even the simply curious, will also find it a
pleasure to read.
*The Victorian Web, Cercles*
Given his acknowledged expertise on the subject of Turkish Baths,
... it is no surprise that Malcolm Shifrin has produced an
excellent text ...
*Social History*
Malcolm Shifrin's magisterial and frequently surprising book charts
the rise and fall of the Victorian Turkish bath movement ... Only a
handful of Turkish baths survive in their original form and use. A
whole world has been lost, but Malcolm Shifrin is to be commended
for bringing it back to vivid life.
*IHBC, Context 144: May 2016*
... a major act of historical recovery; it is also a true labour of
love ... a sumptuous and delightful book, a tribute to Historic
England who produced the volume ... Alas, very few Turkish baths
remain today. Shifrin is the pre-eminent historian and
archaeologist of this phenomenon. The Turkish bath endures at least
through his pages.
*Journal of Victorian Culture*
... the amount of information about the buildings and the processes
within them is remarkable, the bibliography is extensive, and the
glossary and four separate indices for people, places, users, and
subjects are helpful.
*Landscape History, Vol 37, Issue 2, 2016*
Shifrin is very thorough in his examination of the economics and
personalities of the Turkish Bath business, but it is in his
appreciation of the architecture of these baths that he excels ...
It is one of the many virtues of this study that so many delightful
photographs are provided ... Shifrin leave no stone unturned in his
examination of all available sources, literary and archival.
*Industrial Archaeology Review, 38, 2, 146-147, November 2016*
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