LONDON BROTHELS & VICE- 1000 YEARS OF SOCIAL HISTORY-HC 

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From the dust jacket:

For more than a thousand years vice has been a vibrant strand in the history of London. Alongside the normal commercial life of the capital this alternative economy flourished, fostering a bazaar of opportunity for the rich, the curious and the sexually adventurous. Every whim and aberration was catered to by an army of willing women, estimated to number 80,000 in the early Victorian period. They thronged the streets and theatres, amazing visitors by their numbers, boldness, youth and beauty.

There were brothels with classical paintings and fine cuisine, accommodation houses where one could take one's choice of the pretty street girls, and the bagnios or bath houses in Covent Garden which were praised by no less an authority than Casanova. 'It makes a magnificent decauch, and only costs six guineas.' For homosexuals there were mollies' houses. Expensively equipped flagellation establishments catered to the many passionate adherents of le vice anglais (the "English vice"). There were printed guides to whores with descriptions of their specialties.

Women bawds of unusual enterprise and skill presided over this great empire of sex, among them Mother Cresswell, with her Beauties of all Complexions, from the cole-black clyng-fast to the golden lock'd insatiate' and the greedy and rapacious Mother Needham, depicted by Hogarth. The great whores themselves were equally remarkable: Sally Salisbury, Fanny Murray and Skittles were the media celebrities of their day.

The book surveys vice in London from the Bishop of Winchester's licensed brothels on Bankside in the eleventh century to the saunas, massage parlours and anonymous suburban brothels of today's city. It is not a story for the squeamish, but a fascinating investiagation of the social realities behind London's prostitution and the vivid characters engaged in the oldest profession in the world.

INDEX

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Abchurch Lane • Frances Abington • Mr Abington (music teacher) • abortion • accommodation houses • Peter Ackroyd (Dickens' London; London: The Biography) • Dr William Acton (Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social and Sanitary Aspects) • Henry Addington (later Earl of Sidmouth) • Address to the Guardian Society • adultery, death penalty for • age of consent • age range • Jean Agius • Albanians • Albion Terrace, off the King's Road • Aldershot • Aldgate • Aldgate Pump • Aldwych • George Alexander • Alhambra, Leicester Square • Ellen Allen • Edward Alleyn • Almonry, Westminster Abbey • Robert Alsop • Ambleside Avenue, Streatham • American Army • Amesbury • ammonia • Amsterdam • Andromeda • City Road Angel • Marquess of Anglesey • Queen Anne • Annual Register • Antwerp • Apsley House • Sir Thomas Aquinas • Arabian Baths, New Bond Street • Baron von Archenholz (A Picture of England) • Jeffrey Archer • Thomas Archer • Archer Street, Soho • Pietro Aretino (La puttane errante) • Duke of Argyle • Argyll Rooms, by Windmill Street • armed forces, and venereal disease • Elizabeth Armistead • Army Council • Ascot races • Henry Spencer Ashbee (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) • Elizabeth Ashe • Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper (later Lord Shaftesbury) • Assembly Rooms, Bath • Anthony Aston • Lord Astor • Sir Richard Atkins • William atte Pond • Atte the Pye on the Hope brewhouse, Abchurch Lane • Juliana atte-Celere • John Aubrey • Marie Aubrey • St Augustine • Australia • Ave Maria Alley • Axe Yard, Westminster

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baby farming • Back Alley, off Moor Lane, Cripplegate • Mrs Bagley (a bawd) • bagnios • Mrs Bagwell • Paul Bailey (An English Madam) • Baker Street • William Ballantine • Nicholas Ballard • Frederic Calvert Baron Baltimore • banishment • W J Bankes • Bankside, Southwark • Bantering Booth, Windmill Hill, Upper Moorfields • Barbados • Barge whorehouse, Southwark • Barnes's, Haymarket • Dr Barr • Barron's Oyster Rooms, Haymarket • Elizabeth Barry • Bartholomew Close • Bartholomew Fair, Smithfield • Paula Bartley (Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914) • Frances Barton • Elizabeth Basse • Bath • Marquess of Bath • bath-houses (bagnios) • bawds • 'bawdy baskets' • Bawdy-House Riots (1668) • Henry Baynham (Before the Mast) • Bayswater • Bayswater Road • Joseph Bazalgette • BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) • beadles • Beak Street • Bear flash house • Mr Bearden • 'beats' • Conkey Beau • Duke of Beaufort • Beaus' Club • Dr William Becket (On the Antiquity of Venereal Diseases Long Before the Discovery of the West Indies) • Adeline Duchess of Bedford • Bedford Chapel, Charlotte Street • Bedford Street, Covent Garden • Mrs Beeton • Bell brothel • Bell Inn, Cheapside • Bell inn-playhouse, Gracechurch Street • Bell Yard • George Anne Bellamy • Belle Sauvage inn-playhouse, Ludgate Hill • Ben Jonson's Head coffee house • Henry Grey Bennet • Cavendish Bentinck • Mrs Theresa Berkely • Berkely Horse • Bermondsey • Berner Street • Madame Berthe • Lady Sophia Berwick (née Wilson) • Berwick Street, Soho • Walter Besant (All Sorts and Conditions of Men) • Lady Bessborough • Bethlehem-hospital, Moorfields (Bedlam) • Bethnal Green • Thomas Betterton • Mrs Anne Biddlestone • Ronnie Biggs • Billingsgate ward • Mrs Billington • John Binney • Birks (publican) • Birmingham • Bishopsgate • 'Black Bess' • Black Horse flash house, Tottenham Court Road • Black Sarah • Black-Eyed Susan • Blackfriars • blackmail • Blackman (flash house landlord) • blackout (Second World War) • Judge Blagney • William Blake • Blakeney's Head, Bow Street • Lesley Blanch • Blitz • John Bloom • Bloomsbury • Blue Posts, Haymarket • Bluegate Fields, Shadwell • Wilfred Scawen Blunt (Love Sonnets of Proteus) • 'board lodgers' • Board of Admiralty • Board of Trade • Boar's Head brothel, Bankside • Bob Derry's Cider Cellar, Maiden Lane • Bob Derry's School of Venus, Maiden Lane • 'Bog-Houses', Lincoln's Inn • Isaac Bogard (Darky the Coon) • Anne Boleyn • Lord Bolingbroke • Bolton Street, off Piccadilly • Anne Bond • Bond Street • Boodles club • Dr Andrew Boord (Breviary of Health) • Bramwell Booth • Charles Booth (Life and Labour of the People of London) • Bordhawe, St Mary Colechurch parish • Mary Tucker Borradaile • James Boswell • Ernest Boulton • Boundary Street Estate • Bourse • Betty Boutel • Bow Street • Bow Street Court • Bow Street magistrates • Bow Street Runners • boxing match, female • Thomas Boyle (Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead) • Bruce Brace • Mrs Bracegirdle • Bradford • branding • branks • Bishop Robert Braybrook • Brazilians • Bread Street • breeding prostitutes • Beta Brestonia • Ann Margaret Brett • Brewer Street • brewers • Brick Lane • Bride Lane • Bridewell, behind Bride Lane • Bridewell, Tothill Fields, Westminster • Bridewells • Bridge ward • Sir Orlando Bridgeman • Bridges Street • John Bright • Brighton • Brighton Bessie • Jimmy Brindle • Lord Bristol • Edward J Bristow (Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700) • British Army • British embassy, Brussels • British Medical Journal • British Museum • British Telecom • Brixton • 'Brixton Baby farmers' • Broad Street ward • William Bromfield • Brompton • Sir Norman Brook • Brooks's club • brothels • brothels, anonymous suburban • brothels, child • brothels, with classical paintings and fine cuisine • brothels, closed • brothels, first modelled on French establishments • brothels, for the gratification of women • brothels, high-class • brothels, licensed • brothels, penalties for keeping • brothels, statistics • Brothels Suppression Bill • Kitty Brown • Thomas Brown • Tom Browne • Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan • Brussels • Bruton Place • Bryanston Square • Lord Buckhurst • George Villiers Duke of Buckingham • Lord Buckingham • Buck's Row (now Durward Street) • buggery • Bull and Butcher homosexual club • Bull and Mouth Street • Bull inn-playhouse, Bishopsgate • Bull's Head homosexual club • Mary Bunce • Bunch of Grapes, Clare Market • Burdellane, St Mary Colechurch parish (i.e. Brothel Lane) • Angela Burdetts-Coutts • E J Burford (London: The Synfulle Citie; The Orrible Synne; Private Vices, Public Virtues; Royal St James's; Wits, Wenchers and Wantons) • Burford and Joy Wotton (Private Vices - Public Virtues), E J • Betty Burgess • Mother Burgess • Burke's Peerage • Burlington Arcade, off Piccadilly • Burmese, Haymarket • Bishop Burnet • burning at the stake • Rose Burton • Burton Crescent • Lord Bute • Josephine Butler (Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade) • Mrs Butler • Lord Byron

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Cable Street • Cafe Royal, Princess Street, Leicester Square • call-up girls • Camberwell • Camden • Camden Town • Camille • Camomile Street, Bishopsgate • Lord Campbell • Campden Hill Road • Campioni • Elizabeth Cane (Mrs Armistead) • Mother Cane • Canons estate, Edgware • Caravan club • Cardinal's Hat brothel, Bankside • Betsy Carless (Careless) • Carlisle House, Soho Square • Carlisle Street, Soho • Carlton Vale • Queen Caroline • George Carpenter • Mary Carpenter • Carpenter's coffee house, Covent Garden (the Finish) • Charles Carrington • George Caruana • Giacomo Casanova • Miss Cass • Mr Justice Cassels • Juan Antonio Castanar • Castle brothel, Bankside • Castle Street, off Leicester Square • Lady Castlemaine Barbara Villiers (later Duchess of Cleveland) • Earl of Castlemaine • Cat, Strand • A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks & Prostitutes, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-friends, Kind Women and other of the Linnen-lifting Tribe • catamites • Catherine of Braganza • Catholicism • John de Catton • Eliza Caunce • 'Cause' • Cavalier families • Central Criminal Court • Edwin Chadwick • Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire • Doll Chamberlain • Dr Chamberlain • Henri Champly (The Road to Shanghai) • Chancery Lane • Duke of Chandos • Chandos Street • Abbie Chapman • Charing Cross • Charing Cross Road • Charing Cross Station • Duke of St Albans Charles • King Charles I • King Charles II • Charlotte Street • Frederick Charrington • Charterhouse Lane • Colonel Francis Charteris • Geoffrey Chaucer • Cheap side • Cheapside Pillory • Chelsea • Kellow Chesney (The Victorian Underworld) • Earl of Chesterfield • Chesterfield Street • William Chiffinch • child brothels • children, in flash houses • children, prostitutes • children, sold/kidnapped for prostitution • children, syphilis • General Childs • Chiswell Street • cholera • Earl of Cholmondeley • Christ Church School • 'chuck game' • Church (medieval Church's involvement in the sex industry) • Church Army • church courts • Church Lane • Church of England • Church of England Assurance Association • Church of England reformatories • Church Street, Chelsea • Church Street/Lawrence Street • Charles Churchill • John Churchill (later Duke of Marlborough) • Colley Cibber • 'cigar divans' • City: brothel/prostitute statistics • City Gates • City Road • Clapham • Clare Market • Duke of Clarence • Claridge's hotel • John Cleland (Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) • Clement's Lane • clergy, licentiousness of • clergy, priests' women • clergy, punishment of • Katherine Clerk • Clerkenwell • Clerkenwell Road • Cleveland Square • Cliveden • Cock brothel • Cock Lane, Smithfield • Codpiece Alley (later Coppice Lane) • coffee houses • Monica Coghlan • William Cok • Colchester, Essex • Coldbath Fields Prison • Joan Cole • Mrs Colet • Jeremy Collier (A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage) • Elizabeth Collins • Colman Hedge • Patrick Colquhoun (Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis) • Commercial Road • Commercial Street • Committee on the State of the Police • Common Council • Common Lodging House Act (1851) • Commonwealth • condoms • Isabella Condon • Congregational Union • William Congreve • Joseph Conrad • conscription • Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869) • Lady Conyngham • Samuel Cooke • Sarah Cooke • Lucy Cooper • Coppice Lane • Michael Corkery • Madame Cornelys • Cornhill • Superintendant G W Cornish • Lord Cornwallis • Corporation of London Cemetery, Manor Park • The Corset and the Crinoline • Jane Corteville • 'Countesses of the Exchange' • court, depravity of • court, licentious and vulgar under James I • court, venereal disease • Court of Appeal • Edward Courteney • courtesans • Covent Garden • 'The Covent Garden Eclogue' • Covent Garden Magazine • Covent Garden Theatre • Coventry • Cowcross • Sarah Cowden • Mrs Crabbe • crack cocaine • Cranbourn Alley • William Crawford • Crayford, Greater London • Crazy Horse Saloon, Marylebone • Cremorne Gardens • Mother Elizabeth Cresswell (a bawd) • Crimean War • Criminal Investigation Department (CID) • Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885) • criminals, in Covent Garden • criminals, Dancer's houses • criminals, Dog and Duck Tavern • criminals, and flash houses • Cripplegate • Cripplegate Without • Criterion Theatre • Mary Cromwell • Oliver Cromwell • Richard Cromwell • Cross Keys brothel, Bankside • Cross Keys inn-playhouse, Gracechurch Street • Mrs Crouch (a singer) • Crystal Palace • Cuckold's Point • Duke of Cumberland • Elizabeth Cummins (Country Bet) • Mr Cummins • Mrs Cummins • Peter Cunningham (The Story of Nell Gwyn) • Mrs Cupid • Edmund Curl (The Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs; Venus in the Cloister, or The Nun in her Smock) • Mrs Curtis (a bawd) • Curzon Street • Cyprian Corps • 'Cyprian Fete'

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Daily Advertiser • Daily Courant • Daily Express • Daily News • Daily Post • Daily Telegraph • Dalston • William de Dalton • Dalton's, Leicester Square • dance halls • Mr Dancer • Dancing Club • Sir Francis Dashwood • dating agencies • Sir William Davenant • Ron Davey ('The Dustman') • Moll Davies • Godfrey Davis (The Early Stuarts) • Leah Davis • Poll Davis • Rosetta Davis (alias Abrahams) • Nancy Dawson • Mademoiselle de la Valliere • Dean Street, Soho • death penalty • debtors • Defence of the Realm Act (Regulation 33B) • Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders) • Contessa della Rena • John Dent • Chevalier D'Eon • Deptford • Earl of Derby • the Derby • Sam Derrick • Miss Devaux • Devil's Island • Duke of Devonshire • Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire • Miss Devonshire • Anne Dickens • Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Oliver Twist; Our Mutual Friend) • John Dicks • Gerald Diobson • Dockhead, Southwark • doctors • Dog and Bitch Yard • Dog and Duck, St George's Fields • Dollar House, Camberwell • dollymops • Constance Donne (later Alleyn) • John Donne • Lady Dorchester • Gustave Doré (London: A Pilgrimage) • Duke of Dorset • Earl of Dorset • Dorset (poet and courtier) • Dorset Street (now Duval Street) • Fyodor Dostoevsky • double standard • Andrew Douglas • Mother Jane Douglas • William Douglas (later fourth Duke of Queensbury; Lord Piccadilly; Old Q) • dredgers • dress lodgers • drugs • Drury Lane, near Covent Garden • Commander Ken Drury • Drury Lane Journal • Drury Lane Theatre • John Dryden (The Indian Emperour; The Maiden Queene; 'Poor Pensive Punk') • Sarah Dubery • William Dugdale • Duke Humphrey's Rent, City of London • Duke Street • Duke of York pub, Shadwell • Duke's Place, St James's • Dulwich College • Superintendent Dunlap • Mrs Dunner • Durex • Durward Street • Duval Street • Alfred Dyer • Edward Dyer

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City Road Eagle tavern • Earl's Court • East End • East Smithfield • Jacob Ecclestone • Eclipse (horse) • Sibil Eddon • Catherine Eddowes • Chuter Ede • John Edgecombe • King Edward V • King Edward VI • King Edward VII (as Prince of Wales) • Buster Edwards • Mrs Edwards (actress) • Life in London), Pierce Egan (Tom and Jerry) • Lady Diane Egerton • Earl of Egremont • 800 Club, Leicester Square • Elephant brothel, Bankside • Eleusinian Institution • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (as Duchess of York) • Havelock Ellis • Sarah Ellis • PC Endacott • Endsleigh Gardens • English Civil War • 'English overcoats' • Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine • Epsom races • Surrey Epsom • Jacob Epstein • Desiderius Erasmus • L' Eschoole des Filles • escort agencies • Esmeralda's Barn, Wilton Place, off Knightsbridge • Euston • Euston Road • Euston Square • Euston station • Evangelical Church of England • Evangelists' Reformatory and Refuge Union • Eve International escort agency • John Evelyn • Evening Standard • Ellen de Evesham • Bishop of Exeter • Exeter Hall

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Fads and Fantasies • Falconberg Mews toilets, Westminster • Lord Falkland • fallen gentlewomen • Viscount Hugh Falmouth • Cyprus Famagusta • Viscountess Frances Fane • Elizabeth Farley • Betsy Farren • Farringdon Road • Farringdon underground station • Farringdon Ward • Miss Fawkland • Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk • fellatio • felons • Dominique Ferguson • Paul Ferris (Sex and the British) • Fetter Lane • Holborn Field Lane • Henry Fielding • Sir John Fielding • Filipinas • film industry • Hon John Finch • Finish coffee house, Covent Garden • 'finishes' • Rhoda Lee Finmore (Immoral Earnings) • Finsbury • First Report from the Committee on the State of the Police of The Metropolis • First World War • Kitty Fisher • Trevor Fisher (Prostitution and the Victorians; Scandal) • Thomas fitz Simon • Mrs Maria Fitzherbert • Fitzroy • Fitzroy Square • flagellation • flagellation houses • flash houses • 'flash women' • flatlets, blocks of • flats, self-contained • Fleet debtors' prison • Fleet River • Fleet Street • John Fletcher (The Humorous Lieutenant) • Abraham Flexner (Prostitution in Europe) • Flower and Dean Street • Flying Squad • Foley Place • Folies Bergere, Paris • Folly Ditch • footpads • For the Punishment of the Vice of Buggery Act (1533) • For to Eschewe the Stynkynge and Orrible Synne of Lechery • foreign community, customers among • Fortune theatre, Blackfriars • Edmund Fotheringham • Priscilla Fotheringham (Priss; née Carsewell) • Fountain homosexual club, Strand • Fountain tavern, Russell Square • Dr Fourcade • Madame Fourcade • Jan Fowler • Charles James Fox • Antonia Fraser (The Weaker Vessel) • Mad Frankie Fraser • fraudsters • Dr Alexander Frazier • Kitty Fredericks • 'French letters' • Katherine Frenssh • Frying Pan lodging house • Fu1ham • Reverend Symon Fysshe

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gangsters • Archbishop Stephen Gardiner • John Garfield (The Unparalleled Practices of Mrs Fotheringham; The Wand'ring Whore) • Peter Garforth • David Garrick (Prologue to the Maid of the Oaks) • John Gay (The Beggar's Opera) • Rusty Gaynor (June Packard) • Erik Geijer (Impressions of England) • General Board of Health • geneva shops • Gentleman's Magazine • George coaching inn, off Borough High Street, Southwark • King George I • King George II • King George III • King George IV • King George VI (as Duke of York) • George Yard Buildings, off Whitechapel Road • Georgian England • Queenie Gerald • Gerard Street • Lady Betty Germain • Alice Gibbs • Miss Gilbert • Charles Gildon • Girls' Friendly Society • William Ewart Gladstone • Glamour International escort agency • Mrs Goadby • Golden Ball, Fetter Lane • Golden Lion, Strand • gonorrhoea • Sir John Gonson • Goodge Street • Cardonell Goodman ('Scum') • Lord William Gordon • Lucky Gordon • John Gosling and Douglas Warner (The Shame of a City) • Elizabeth Gould (Gold) • Mrs Gould • Jack Gourlay • Gracechurch Street • graffiti • Henry Duke of Grafton • HMS Grafton • Miss Grafton • Billy Graham • James Grainger (Biographical History of England) • Count de Grammont (Memoirs) • Granby Street, Waterloo Road • grandes horizontales • William Grant • Grape Street • graveyards • Gray's Inn Lane • Gray's Inn Road • Gray's Inn Walks • Great Marlborough Street • Great Russell Street • 'Great Stink' (1858) • Great Train Robbers • Greater London • Greek Street, Soho Square • Robert Greene (Notable Discovery of Cozenage; Theeves Fallinge Out) • Greenwich • Greenwich Church • James Greenwood (In Strange Company: The Notebook of a Roving Correspondent; The Seven Curses of London) • William Rathbone Greg • Grenadier Guards • Sir Thomas Gresham • Charles Greville (Memoirs) • Charles Grey • Lady Grey • Mrs Griffin • William Griffin • Mervyn Griffith-Jones • Gropecuntlane, St Mary Co1echurche parish (later Grape Street and Grub Street) • Earl of Grosvenor • Grosvenor Place • Grosvenor Square • Grub Street • Grub Street Journal • Guards • Guild of Fishmongers • Guildford Quarter Sessions, Surrey • Guy's Hospital • Nell Gwyn

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Francis Hackabout • Kate Hackabout • Hackney • the Hague • Half Moon brothel, Bankside • Half Moon Street (now Bedford Street, Covent Garden) • Jacob Hall • Vivienne Hall • Hall Place, St John's Wood • Kate Hamilton • Lord Hamilton • Hammersmith Council • Hamotin Court • Hampshire Coffee house, over Waterloo Bridge • Hanbury Street • Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams • James Hanley (Boy) • Hanover • Countess von Hardenburg • Keir Hardie • Arthur Harding • Sir John Harington • Mrs Harlowe (actress) • Alex Harocopos • Earl of Harrington ('Lord Fumble') • Lady Harrington • Miss Harriott (Black Harriott) • Jack Harris (List of Covent Garden Ladies) • Thomas Harris • Harrods department store • The Harry • Charles Hart • Lord Hartington • Lord Hastings • Count von Haszlang • Hatton Garden • Haunch of Venison, Bell Yard • Haverstock Hill • Charlotte Hayes • Katherine Hayes • Haymarket • Charlotte Hazzlewood (Secret History of the Green Room) • Richard Head and Francis Kirkman (The English Rogue) • head-shaving • Health and Efficiency (magazine) • Mrs Sarah Heath • Hell Fire clubs • Bracebridge Hemyng • Tony Henderson (Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London) • Hennekey (publican) • Henrietta d'Orleans • Fernando Henriques (Prostitution and Society) • King Henry I • King Henry II • King Henry V • King Henry VI • King Henry VII • King Henry VIII • Philip Henslowe • Henry Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) • heroin • Lady Hertford • Marquess of Hertford • Hertford Street • Lord Alfred Hervey • Christopher Hibbert (The Road to Tyburn) • William Hickey • Tom Hickman (The Sexual Century) • James Matthew Higgins • Mary Higgs • High Command • High Street, Shadwell • High Street, Southwark • highwaymen • Berkeley Hill • Billy Hill • Louise Hillisberg • Hermione Hindin • Myra Hindley • Moll Hinton • Valerie Hobson • Mr Hoff (Moll King's second husband) • William Hogarth (Enthusiasm Delineated; Gin Lane; A Harlot's Progress; The March to Finchley; A Rake's Progress) • Holborn • Holborn Casino • Holborn Viaduct • Elizabeth Holland • Elizabeth Holland (Donna Britannica Hollandia) • Mary Holland • Holland's Leaguer, Bankside • Robert Holloway (The Phoenix of Sodom: or, the Vere Street Coterie) • Inspector Paul Holmes • 'Holy Land' (St Giles) • Holywell Street • Home Office (Street Business: The Links Between Sex and Drugs Markets) • homosexuality • Hopton Street • Hosier Lane • Hospital Rents, Fleet Street • hostess bars • hotels-cum-brothels • John Camden Hotten • Michael Hough • Mrs Houghton • House of Commons • House of Correction • House of Lords • House of Lords Select Committee (1881) • House of Lords Select Committee (1888-90) • Lucy Howard • Huguenots • Robert Huish (Memoirs of George IV) • Donald Hume • Jimmy Humphreys • Rusty Humphreys • Thomas de Hundesmor • Hungarians • Inspector Hunt • William Holman Hunt (The Awakened Conscience) • Hyde Park • hygiene, and venereal disease

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illegal immigrants • The Imperial Protestant Mercury • incest • Independent • informers • Inns of Court • Stephen Inwood (A History of London) • Irish population • Islet Town Club, Curzon Street • Islington • Captain Ivanov

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Jack the Ripper murders • J Jacobs (condom seller) • King James I (Touching on Disorderly Houses in Saffron Hille) • Mrs James • King James II • Hank Janson • Rebecca Jarrett • Mary Jeffries • James Jenkins • Roy Jenkins • Frances Jennings • Mr Jermain • Lady Jersey • J H Jesse (Literary and Historical Memorials of London) • Jewish Board of Guardians • Jewish Ladies' Association • Jews • Jiggle • Joe the Magsman • Augustus John • John of Gaunt • Charles Johnson • Miss Johnson (a prostitute) • Janie Jones • Mrs Jones • Ben Jonson (Bartholomew Fair)

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Edna Kalman • Captain Richard Keats • Christine Keeler • Gilbert Kelland (Crime in London) • Kelly (flash house landlord) • Mary Kelly • Bernard Kemble • Catherine Kennedy • Kennington • Kensal Green Cemetery • Kensington • Kent Street • Louise Keroualle (Duchess of Portsmouth) • Max Kessel (Red Max; ? Emil Allard) • Surrey Kew • 'khaki fever' • kidnap • Harry Killigrew • Moll King • Tom King • King Street • King's Arms pub, Shadwell • King's Bench Prison • King's College Hospital • King's Cross • King's Cross station • King's Head brothel, Covent Garden Piazza • King's Place, Pall Mall • King's Road • King's Theatre • Kingsway • Hilary Kinnell • Dr Alfred Kinsey • Kinsey Report • Francis Kirkman • Lord Kitchener • Klyberg (white slaver) • Knightsbridge • Knightsbridge Music Hall • Kent Knockholt • Kosovans • Reggie Kray • Kray twins • Franie Krum • Walter Kyng

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Clarice la Clatterballock • La Femme escort agency • John la Tapstere • Ladies' Mile, Hyde Park • Ladies National Association • Lady Bumtickler's Revels • Lady Juliana • Allen Laing • Harriette Lamb • Lambeth • The Lancet • Sir Edwin Landseer • Betty Lane (later Martin) • Doll Lane • Isobel Lane • Lord Justice Geoffrey Lane • Langham Place • John Langland • Dr Baxter Langley • language: underworld slang • Professor Ray Lankester • Marcellus Laroon • Last and Lion, East Smithfield • Bishop Latimer ('Third Sermon before the [new] King' • Lavinia Grove, King's Cross • Law Courts • Betty Lawrence • D H Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover) • Lawrence Street • Gerard le Armourer • John le Clerke • Thomas le Keu • Alice le Shepster • Gilbert le Strengmaker • Waltere le Tyretener • off Holborn Leather Lane • Leathercoat (Lethercote) • Nathaniel Lee (The Rival Queens) • Prudence Lee • Leicester Square • Duke of Leinster • Sir Peter Lely • Leman Street • Lady Sarah Lennox • lesbianism • Jane Lessingham • Letter Book for 1420 (City of London) • Rachael Leverson (Madame Rachael) • Lord Granville Leveson Gower • M Lewis (A Social History of the Navy) • Sir George Lewis • William Lewis • Lichfield Street, St Martin's Lane • Life and Character of Moll King • Limehouse • Alice de Lincoln • Lincoln's Inn Fields • Lincoln's Inn Gardens • link-boys • Eliza Lynn Linton ('The Girl of the Period') • Miss Lisle • Thomas Litelwatte • Little College Street, Westminster • 'Little Dublin' (St Giles) • Little Italy • Liverpool • Lloyd's Weekly London Gazette • Lock Hospital • lock hospitals • lodging house brothels • William Logan (The Great Social Evil) • London Bridge • London Committee for the Exposure and Suppression of the Traffic in English Girls for the Purposes of Continental Prostitution • London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality • London County Council • London Crown Court • London Guardian Society • London Hospital • London Journal • London Rescue Society • London Street, Fitzroy Square • lonely hearts columns • Long Acre • Long-Haired Mrs Spencer of Spitalfields • Longa Maria • Lord Loudoun • Louis XIV, King of France • Louis XV, King of France • Love Lane, St Mary Colechurch parish • Love Lane, Southwark • LOW LIFE, or, One half of the World knows not how the Other Half Lives • Ludgate Hill • Lukener's Lane • Daniel Lupton • 'Lushing Loo' • Lyceum

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Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay (History of England) • Countess of Macclesfield • Orange Betty Mackarel • Madame Birchini's Dance • Reverend Martin Madan • Maddox Street, Mayfair • Magdalen Hospital, near Goodman Fields • Magdalen Institutions • Magdalene Hospital • magistrates • Detective Superintendent Guy Mahon • Maida Vale • Maiden Lane • maidservants, and venereal disease • Madame de Maintenon • Joan Makelyn • J P Malcolm (Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London During the Eighteenth Century) • male prostitutes • the Mall • Lord James Harris Malmesbury • Maltese • The Man of Pleasure's Pocket Book • Manchester • Manchester Square • Hortense Mancini • Master Manwarynge • Marble Arch • HRH Princess Margaret • Rose Marks • John Churchill Duke of Marlborough • Marlborough Street • Shakerley Marmion (Hollands Leaguer) • marriage, child • marriage, of homosexuals • marriage, of prostitutes • Justice Mars-Jones • Constable John Marshall • Marshalsea prison • John Marston (The Dutch Courtesan) • Samuel Martin • Harriet Martineau • Andrew Marvell • Queen Mary I • Queen Mary II • Marylebone • Marylebone Road • Mason, Ronald Eric ('John') • massage parlours • W F Massey • Brian Masters (The Mistresses of Charles II) • Catherine Matthews • Professor Roger Matthews (Prostitution in London: An Audit (report)) • Guy de Maupassant • Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe • Tiggey May, Alex Harocopos and Michael Hough (For Love or Money: Pimps and the Management of Sex Work; Selling Sex in the City) • Mayfair • Henry Mayhew • Henry Mayhew and John Binney (The Criminal Prisons of London) • Henry Mayhew and Bracebridge Hemyng (London Labour and the London Poor) • Sir Richard Mayne • maypoles • Cardinal Mazarin • John Mazerer • Medical Officer of Health • Medmenham Abbey, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire • Lord Melcomb • Memoirs of the Bedford Coffeeehouse • Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Fanny Murray • Mr Mendez (condom importer) • Joseph Merceron • merchant fleet • mercury • Frederick Merrick • Sir George Mertins • Alfredo Messina • Attilio Messina • Carmelo Messina • Messina, Eugenio (Gino) • Giuseppe Messina • Salvatore Messina • Messina brothers • Metropolitan Board of Works • Metropolitan Police • Meux and Co • Kate Meyrick (Secrets of the 43) • Casimir Micheletti • Middlesex Bench • Middlesex Quarter Sessions • Middleton (haberdasher) • Jenny Middleton • Mrs Middleton • 'Big Frank' Mifsud • Milk Alley • Millbank prison • Miller's Court, off Dorset Street (now Duval Street) • Ministry of Health • Minories • Miseries of Prostitution • Mrs Mitchell • Mitre Square • Moll King's coffee house, Covent Garden • mollies' houses • Prince of Monaco • monks • Duke of Monmouth • Lady Mary Wortley Montague • Ralph Montague • "Monthly list of the Covent Garden Cyprians; or the Man of Pleasure's Vade Mecum" • Anna Monti • Montmartre, Paris • Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Moody • Moorfields • Moorgate Underground station • Moses Moravia • Maria Moreton • Elizabeth Moring • Morning Herald • Morning Post • Arthur Morrison • Mother Clap's club, Holborn • Mother Needham's Elegy & Epitaph • Mott's (Portland Rooms) • Alice Moysant • Mrs Kelly's Rooms • Mrs Osbridge's Scolding Daughter • Mrs Windsor's brothel in King's Place • Puthur Munby • Fanny Murray • Murray's Cabaret Club • Prince Piickler Muskau

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Sir Lewis Namier • Naples • Beau Nash • John Nash • Thomas Nashe • National Gallery • National Vigilance Association (NVA) • Lynda Nead ('The Girl of the Period') • Hilda Neal • near-beer joints • Mother Elizabeth Needham • New Bond Street • New Court • New Cut • New Oxford Street • New Road • New South Wales • New Street • Newgate Prison • Newmarket • Newmarket races • News of the World • The Nichol • Mary Ann Nicholls • night clubs • Florence Nightingale • Nightingale Lane • nitric acid • The Nocturnal Revels • Norton Folgate • Notting Hill • Nottingham • nuns • nursemaids • 'Oates' Boarding School in Camberwell' (a ballad)

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Titus Oates • Obscene Publications Acts • Obscene Publications Squad (Porn Squad) • Odhams Press building, off Covent Garden • Ojibway Indians • Dennis O'Kelly • Old Bailey • Old Bailey court • Old Bond Street • Old Compton Street, Soho • Old Garrick tavern, Leman Street • Old Kent Road • Old Mint, Southwark • Oliver's Alley, Strand • Oomph • Opera House • opium • orange girls • Orange Nan • Order of Saint Francis • Duchess of Orkney • Mrs Osbridge • Roi Otley (No Green Pastures) • Oxford • Oxford Kate's brothel, Bow Street • Oxford Street

P
June Packard • Paddington • Paddy's Goose, High Street, Shadwell • Damaris Page • Pall Mall • Pall Mall Gazette • Palm Court • John Palmer • Christabel Pankhurst (The Great Scourge and How to End It) • Emmeline Pankhurst • Pankhurst family • Panton Street, Strand • The Paphian Grove • 'The Paphian Grove' (a satire) • Paris • Archbishop of Paris • Paris Gardens Manor House, Bankside • William Park • Park Place, St James's • Park Tower Hotel • 'park women' • Elizabeth Parker • Parliament Street • Parliamentary Committee on the State of the Police • Sir Miles Partridge • Mrs Paterson (alias Jackson) • Paul Pry • Pauls Cross • Cynthia Payne • Ronald Pearsall (The Worm in the Bud) • Peasants' Revolt (1381) • Peg the Seaman's Wife • Sir Max Pemberton ('The Grave Sex Plague') • Earl of Pembroke • Penguin • People (newspaper) • Samuel Pepys • Jack Percival • Mrs Perkins (condom seller) • Petticoat Lane • Maria Pettit • Constantia Philips • Big Jeff Phillips • Caroline Phillips • phone booths • L Picard (Dr Johnson's London) • Piccadilly • Piccadilly Circus • pickpockets • Picture Post • pillory • pimps • Arthur Wing Pinero • The Pioneer • Francis Place • Countess von Platen • Playboy Escort agency • Sir Thomas Player • pleasure gardens • Poland • police • Lord Ponsonby • Poor Law guardians • Poor Law inspectors • Poor Law relief • Poor Law Unions • The Poor Man's Plea • The Poor Whores' Complaint to the Apprentices of London • The Poor Whores' Petition to Lady Castlemaine • Alexander Pope (The Dunciad) • Pope's Head Alley • Popish Plot • population • Porchester Gardens • porn clubs • pornography • Roy Porter (London A Social History) • Portland Road • Portland Rooms • Duchess of Portsmouth • Posture Moll • posture molls • Sarah Potter (alias Stewart) • Thomas Potter • pregnancy • Sarah Prendergast • Goditha Price • J B Priestley • Princess Alice (pleasure steamer) • Princess Street, Leicester Square • Matthew Prior • Priory of St Mary Overie • prison • Prison Inspectors for the Home District • Private Eye • private hotels • Privy Council • Proclamation for Preventing and Punishing Immorality and Profaneness • procuresses • John Profumo • prostitutes, appearance • prostitutes, black women • prostitutes, breeding • prostitutes, child • prostitutes, clothes • prostitutes, daily routine • prostitutes, diseased • prostitutes, and doctors • prostitutes, dress code • prostitutes, 'hidden' • prostitutes, lists of • prostitutes, marriage • prostitutes, payment • prostitutes, poverty • prostitutes, pregnancy • prostitutes, statistics • prostitutes, terms for • prostitutes, and trades • prostitutes, training • prostitutes, treatment by the authorities • prostitutes, worn-out • 'Prostitutes' Row' • prostitution, causes • prostitution, ethnicity • prostitution, as one of London's most important industries • 'Protestant Nunnery', Great Marlborough Street • Mrs Pryce • Public Advertiser • public houses • Public Morality Council • Pump Court, Temple • Puritanism • Pye Street rookery

Q
Quadrant, Regent Street • Queen Anne Street • Queen of Morocco • Queen Victoria Street • Queenhithe • Court of Queen's Bench • Duchess of Queensbury

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Rachman, Perac (Peter) • Rachmanism • racism • raiding parties • Rambler Magazine • Lord Henry Ranelagh • Ranelagh pleasure gardens • H Ranger • The Ranger's Magazine • Raped on the Railway: A True Story of a Lady Who Was First Ravished and then Flagellated on the Scotch Express • Ratcliffe Highway (now St George's Street East) • Razzle • Red Bull theatre, Blackfriars • red-light districts • Mrs Redson • Sian Rees (The Floating Brothel) • Regency period • Regent Street • Regent's Park • Regulations as to the Street Walkers by Night and Women of Bad Repute • W Rend1e and P Norman (Inns of Old Southwark) • Rent Act (1957) • Rents of the Abbots of St Albans • Rents of the Church of St John, Clerkenwell • Report on the Contagious Diseases Act (1869) • Report on Public Houses • Rescue Society • Restoration • Restoration theatre • Review of Reviews • Bdenham Rewse • Bruce Reynolds • Sir Joshua Reynolds • Mandy Rice-Davies • Richard of Devizes • King Richard II • Duke of Richmond • Surrey Richmond • robbers • 'Bawdyhouse Bob' Roberts • Dorothy Roberts • Nickie Roberts (Whores in History) • Emma Robinson • Mary 'Perdita' Robinson • John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester • Colonel William Henry Rochfort • Rolls of the City of London • Roman Catholic Church • reformatories • The Romance of Naturism • Giulio Romano • rookeries • Rose Cottage, Hampstead • Rose flash house, Rose Street, Long Acre • Rose Tavern, Russell Street • Rose theatre, Southwark • Rosemary Lane • David Ross • Rotherhithe • Rotten Row, Hyde Park • Rotterdam • Royal Commission (1908) • Royal Commission report (1871) • Royal Exchange • Royal Free Hospital • Royal Marriage Act • Royal Navy • Royal Oak, Pall Mall • Royal Society of Arts • Royalist army • Mrs Rushton • C Russell • Mrs Russell (a bawd) • Patience Russell • Russell Square • Russell Street • Tsarist Russia • Duke of Rutland

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Darby Sabini • Marquis de Sade (Juliette) • Sadler's Wells • Safety Violence and Policing Group • Saffron Hill • sailors • sailors' tarts • Duke of St Albans • St Albans, Hertfordshire • St Andrew's Holborn • St Bartholomew's Church • St Bartholomew's Hospital • St Botolph without Aldgate • St Catherine's • St Clair, Lindi • St Colemanstreet parish • St Dunstan's-in-the-East church • St George the Martyr parish, Southwark • St George's Fields • St George's Street • St George's Street East (previously Ratcliffe Highway) • St Giles • St James's • St James's Market • St James's Palace • St James's Park • St James's Place • St James's Street • St James's Theatre • St John Street, Clerkenwell • St John's Wood • St Katherine's • St Leonard's, Shoreditch • St Magnus Church • St Martin in the Fields church • St Martin-le-Grand • St Martin's Lane • St Mary Abchurch • St Pancras • St Pancras station • St Paul, Covent Garden • St Paul's Cathedral • St Paul's Churchyard • St Paul's, Shadwell • St Saviour's church, Southwark • George Augustus Sala (Good Fairy F*ck; Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving; Prince Cherrytop; Twice Round the Clock) • Sally Salisbury (née Pridden) • Salvarsan • Salvation Army • Raphael Samuel (East End; Underworld) • sanctuary • Sandwich, Earl of ('Jemmy Twitcher') • sanitation • Sarah (Lord Sandwich's maid) • sarsaparilla • Satan's Harvest Home: the Present State of Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Pimping, Sodomy etc • Sayer de Satnes • Saturday Review • saunas • César de Saussure (A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II) • Henry Saville • Savoy Hotel • 'scarlet fever' • Lord Scarsdale • Scheherazade Club, Soho • The School of Venus • Countess von der Schulenberg • Scotch Ale-House, Pall Mall • Scotland Yard • Benjamin Scott • Maria Scroggins • Lucy Seales • 'seclusives' • Second World War • Select Committee on Juvenile Offenders • Select Committee on the Police (1816-18) • Selfridge's department store • Sephardic Jews • Seven Dials • Seven Stars lodging house • Madame de Sévigné • sewers • sex shop • sex shops • sex tourism • sextons • sexual revolution • sexually transmitted diseases • Seymour Place, Bryanston Square • Stepney Shadwell • Thomas Shadwell (The Virtuoso) • Shaftesbury Avenue • William Shakespeare (King Lear) • Shakespeare's Head tavern, Covent Garden • Inspector Fred 'Nutty' Sharpe • D Shaw (London in the Sixties) • George Shell (The Whore's Rhetorick: Mrs Cresswell's Last Legacy) • Shepherd Market • Shepherd's Bush • Richard Brinsley Sheridan • The Shield • Miss Shirley • Shoe Lane • Shoreditch • 'short time' • Countess of Shrewsbury • Duke of Shrewsbury • Sarah Siddons • 'side-pillows' • Silk Stocking Stories • Bernie Silver • Sir John Simon • singles bars • Sistine Chapel • Six Windmills brothel, Chiswell Street, Cripplegate Without • John Skelton ('Hickescorner') • 'Skittles' • slang • George Sloane • Mrs Sloane • slop trade • Captain Alexander Smith • Alice Smith • Inspector Smith • Mrs Smith (a bawd) • Sydney Smith • Thomas Southwood Smith • W H Smith (booksellers) • Smithfield • Edward Smithies (Crime in Wartime) • Tommy Smithson • Tobias Smollett (Roderick Random) • smuggling • The Social Club (city brothel) • Societies for the Reformation of Manners • Society of Friends • Society (magazine) • Society for the Prevention of Juvenile Prostitution • Society for the Protection of Young Females • Society for the Suppression of Vice • 'Sodomitical Clubs' • sodomy, and the clergy • sodomy, heterosexual • sodomy, made a felony • sodomy, punishment for • sodomy, upsurge in eighteenth century • Mrs Softing • Soho • Soho Square • soldiers' tarts • soliciting • Some Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Colonel C-s Rape-Master of Great Britain • Some Considerations upon Street-walkers, with a Proposal for Lessening the Present Number of them • Somerset House • Sopers Lane • Sir Thomas Sothwood • Alice Soureby • Miss South (a prostitute) • South Bank University • South Kensington • Lord Southesk • Southwark • Spectator • Hon. Charlotte Spencer • Jack Spencer • John Spencer • Spiller's Head homosexual club • Spitalfields • Joseph Spiteri • Spring Gardens • St-Giles-in-the-Fields • St-Martin's-le-Grand • Lady Stafford • Stafford Street • Alice de Stanewell • Mrs Stanhope (Hell-Fire Stanhope) • James Stansfeld • Star and Garter • Star Tavern, Pall Mall • Star Tavern, Strand • Hugh de Staunton • W T Stead • Richard Steele • Samuel Stephens • Stepney • Stewart's School of Flogging • stewholders • stews • Stock Exchange • Stockdale (publisher) • Stoke Newington • William Stokebregge • Sir Henry Storks • John Stow (Survey of London) • Strand • Robert de Stratford • Streatham • Street Offences Act (1959) • Simon Strengere • Elizabeth Stride • strip clubs • Frances Stuart (Duchess of Richmond and Lennox) • Professor Stuart • Philip Stubbes • Countess of Suffolk • Fair Rosamund Sugarcunt • David Sullivan • Margaret Sullivan • sulphuric acid • Montague Summers (The Restoration Theatre) • Sun homosexual club • Sunday People • suppression of the industry attempts to restrict to specified areas • Surrey Theatre • Sussex Gardens • Sweetings Alley • Jonathan Swift ('A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed') • Charles Algernon Swinburne (La Soeur de la Reine) • swindlers • 'Swindling Sal' • Thomas Sydenham • Syndicate • Syon House, Isleworth • syphilis, and the armed forces • syphilis, the Great Pox • syphilis, A Harlot's progress • syphilis, Henry VIII dies of • syphilis, hereditary • syphilis, John of Gaunt dies of • syphilis, new, virulent wave of • syphilis, A Rake's Progress • syphilis, statistics • syphilis, symptoms • syphilis, treatment

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Hyppolite Taine • J B Talbot • Jack Talbot • Talbot Inn, Strand • Anodyne Tanner (The Life of the Late Celebrated Mrs Elizabeth Wiseboum, Vulgarly Called Mother Wybourn) • Sarah Tanner • Colonel Banastre Tarleton • Tatler • John Taylor • tea-gardens • Temple of Aurora • Temple Bar • Temple Bar pillory • Temple of Beauty, New Bond Street • Temple of Flora • Temple of Mysteries • Lord Alfred Tennyson (In Memoriam) • Cardinal William de Testa • William Makepeace Thackeray (The Four Georges) • Thais • Thames Police • Thames Police Court • Thames River • Thatched House Court, St James's • theatre • theatre, close association between whores and theatres • theatres, harassed by City authorities • theatres, plays show prostitutes' daily lives • theatres, Restoration • Theatre Royal • thew (pillory for women) • thieves • Donald Thomas (The Victorian Underworld) • Elizabeth Thomas • Thomas of Chobham • Agnes Thompson • Edward Thompson ('The Meretriciad') • Nathanel Thompson (Loyal Songs) • Barney Thornton • 'thralls' • Thrawl Street • 'The Three Graces' • Three Potters, Cripplegate Without • Three Tuns tavern, Chandos Street • tight-lacing • Time Out • The Times • Titanic • Titter • Toasts of the Town • Dr William Todd • Martin Tompkinson (The Pornbrokers) • Israel Tonge • Tooting Common • Robena Torrance • toshers • Tothill Fields • Tottenham • Tottenham Court Road • Tower Hamlets Reformation Society • Tower Hill • Tower Hill Pillory • Tower of London • Tower Ward • Town and Country Magazine • 'town misses' • Trafalgar Square • training of whores • transportation • transvestites • Tricks of the Town Laid Open • Flora Tristan (Promenades dans Londres) • Cornhill Tun prison • Tunbridge Wells • Martha Turner • Sarah Turner • Turnmill Street (later Turnbull Street) • Tyburn • Lord Tyrawley

U
Jenny Uglow (Hogarth) • Soho Union Hotel Dean Street • Wapping Union Stairs • Upper Berkeley Street • Urania Cottage, Shepherd's Bush

V
Vagrancy Act • Sir John Vanbrugh (Provoked Wife) • Dr Vance • Carmelo Vassallo • Vauxhall pleasure gardens • Philippe de Vendome • venereal disease, and the armed forces • venereal disease, at court • venereal disease, not given medical names until sixteenth century • venereal disease, old wives' tales • venereal disease, pox doctors • venereal disease, proposed insurance scheme • venereal disease, statistics • venereal disease, treatments • Venetian whores • Sir Ralph Verney • Marcel Vernon • Vestries • vice empires • Victoria • Victoria station • Victoria Street • Victorian morality • Vigilance Societies • George Villiers (Duke of Buckingham) • Villiers Street • Howard Vincent • violence • virgin mania • Commander Wally Virgo • Voltaire

W
wages • Mary Walcott • Captain C Walker (Authentic Memoirs of the Life, Intrigues and Adventures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury) • Judith R Walkowitz (Prostitution and Victorian Society) • Maureen Waller (1700 Scenes from London Life) • Amalie Sophia von Walmoden • Horace Walpole • Robert Walpole • Walter (Victorian diarist): My Secret Life • Catherine Walters ('Skittles') • Margaret Walters • The Wand'ring Whore (pamphlet) • Wandsworth prison • John de Wantynge • Wapping • War Office • Ned Ward (London Spy) • Stephen Ward • Wardour Street • Douglas Warner • Sir Charles Warren • Amy Warrington • watch committees • watchmen • water companies • Waterloo Bridge • Waterloo Place • Waterloo Road • Marthe Watts (The Men in My Life) • Sir Roger Watts • Elizabeth Weatherby • Weatherby's coffee house, Russell Street • Duncan Webb (Line-up for Crime) • Weekly Despatch • Betsy Weems (Wemyss) • Well Close • Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington • Wellington Barracks • Wellington Street, Strand • Mrs Wells (procuress) • John Wesley • West Africans • West End • West End Central police station • West Smithfield • Judge West-Russell • Westminster • Westminster Abbey • Westminster Bridge • Westminster City Council • Westminster Hall • Westminster House of Correction • Westminster Magazine • Westminster Police Court • Westminster Review • Westminster School • Dr Hugh Weston (Dean of Windsor) • Nicholas de Westsmythfielde • Duke of Wharton • Whetstone Park, near Lincoln's Inn Fields • Mrs Whitby • Huffey White • white slavery • White Swan brothel • Whitechapel • Whitechapel High Street • Whitechapel Road • Whitehouse (magazine) • Mrs Mary Whitehouse • White's club • Whores' Club • Bert Wickstead • Jonathan Wild • Oscar Wilde • John Wilkes ('Essay on Women') • Joseph Wilkins • Isabella Wilkinson • Miss Wilkinson • King William III • King William IV • Bridget Williams • Mrs Williams • Frank Williamson • Sue Willis • Mother Willit • Agnes Willoughby (later Windham) • Amy Wilson • Fanny Wilson • Harriette Wilson (Memoirs) • J H Wilson (All the King's Ladies) • Mary Wilson (The Voluptarian Cabinet; Venus School Mistress) • Wilton Place • Wimpole Mews • Bishop of Winchester • 'Winchester Geese' • General Windham • William Frederick Windham (Mad Windham) • Windmill Hill, Upper Moorfields • Windmill Street • Mrs Windsor • Winnington Road, Hampstead • Winston's night club • Mother Wiseboume (Wyboum) • Peg Woffington • Wolfenden committee • John Wolfenden • Wolfenden report (1957) • Cardinal Wolsey • Wolverhampton • Women Police Volunteers • Women's Patrols • Parson James Woodforde • Joan Woodward (later Alleyn) • Alexander Woollcott • Marchioness of Worcester • William Wordsworth ('The Excursion') • Joy Wotton • Andrew Wrenne • Beatrice Wrenne • wrestling, female • Wych Street • William Wycherley (The Country Wife; The Plain Dealer)

Y
Yellow-Haired Kitty • York • James Duke of York • York Buildings, Duke Street • York races • York Square • G M Young (Early Victorian England 1830-1865)

Z
Israel Zangwill • Philip Ziegler (London At War) • Emile Zola (La Terre)