Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
History
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914
Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Humor
Townsend, F. H., _P._ artist, iv. 109, 154, 210
Trade depression after Boer war, iv. 46, 132
Trade Disputes Act of 1906, iv. 6, 58, 125-6
Trade unions, and foreign politics, ii. 42;
tyranny of, ii. 58, 77, 85 _seq._;
intimidation exercised by, ii. 86;
Trade Unions Act, ii. 96; iii. 74; iv. 119, 120, 122, 128, 132-4
Trafalgar Square, i. 147; ii. 163 _ill._;
criticism of, iii. 180
Tramways, drivers and conductors, iii. 93;
and railways, iii. 180;
and motor-'buses, iv. 196-8
Transvaal, annexed, iii. 18;
war with, iii. 29 _seq._;
obtains full autonomy, iv. 7 _seq._;
grant to, iv. 46;
Boers _v._ Uitlanders, 36 _seq._
Travellers, British, on the Continent, i. 222; ii. 211, 212;
iii. 268-70, 278-9; iv. 255-6
Treaties: draft, secret (France and Prussia in 1867), ii. 82;
San Stefano, iii. 3;
London, iv. 83-4;
Bukharest, iv. 84
Trebelli, Mme., ii. 301, 303
Tree, Sir Herbert, actor-manager, iii. 344, 353; iv. 317, 321, 322;
on the music-halls, iv. 330
_Trent_ case, the, ii. 3, 18, 19
Trevelyan, Rt. Hon. Sir George, iv. 4
Tricycles, appearance of, ii. 138; iii. 300
_Trilby_, _P._ on, iv. 284;
in Peckham, _ill._, iv. 285
Triple Alliance, established, iii. 54; iii. 59;
in 1907, iv. 62
"Trippers," cheap, iii. 104 _seq._
Trollope, Anthony, ii. 274; iii. 317, 320;
parodied, iii. 324
_Truth_, appearance of, iii. 327
Tryon, Admiral Sir George, and loss of the _Victoria_, iv. 191
Tubes introduced, iv. 194, 198
Tupper, Martin F., i. 234; ii. 181, 270 _seq._;
death, iii. 319
Turf, the, iv. 360
Turkey, relations with, iii. 14 _seq._;
buys Dreadnought from England, iv. 91;
relations with Greece, iv. 99.
_See also_ Russo-Turkish war
Turner, J. M. W., R.A., i. 295
Turnerelli, Tracy, and the "people's tribute," iii. 24
Turnpike, laws resented, i. 57;
trusts, end of, iv. 202
Tussaud's, Mme., i. 68, 106;
Chamber of Horrors condemned, i. 157
Twain, Mark, ii. 277, 280;
welcomed by _P._, in 1907, iv. 292;
farewell to, in 1910, iv. 293
Tweedmouth, 2nd Baron, and German menace, iv. 10;
withdraws from Admiralty, iv. 63
"Two Nations, The," i. _frontispiece_, 27
Type-writer, ii. 143 _seq._
Typhus, visitation of, i. 152
Uganda annexed, iv. 16
Ulster, and Home Rule, iv. 13;
crisis in, iv. 80, 85-6, 91, 92, 94-9, 101, 135
"Ulster," the, ii. 338
Undergraduates, costume, i. 269 _ill._;
high cost of living, ii. 134 _seq._
Underground railways, ii. 136, 154; iv. 194, 198, 200
Underpaid: governesses, iii. 273;
women workers, iv. 105
Unemployment:
riots, iii. 76, 78;
unemployed and unemployables, iii. 79; iv. 111-2, 119, 123;
insurance, iv. 133;
in the upper class, iv. 246
Uniforms, military:
protective colouring suggested, i. 122;
vagaries of, i. 269, 270; iii. 316
United Kingdom Alliance, i. 105
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