Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process, he uncovers how poor sanitation led to cholera outbreaks, he considers Victorian knowledge of disease transmission ...

Although it was the largest city in the world at the time, Victorian London still had a medieval sanitation system. Xand van Tulleken explores the onset of the Great Stink of 1858. In the process ...

He compared the current situation to the Great Stink, and while thankfully this was hyperbole, the Victorian era’s depictions of Dirty Old Father Thames living in a swamp of filth may not be ...