Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson

Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Lee Jackson

304 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this i...

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