The Great Stink of Rosemary Ashton’s title refers to the open sewer that was the Thames, repository of the capital’s untreated effluent … The stench in summer drove MPs out of the Commons, Dickens and Carlyle out of London, and threatened to bring cholera
16 August 2017, The Tablet
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