Many think of the Victorian era as a time of tight-laced corsets and formal teas. And it was—but it was also the time of the Great Stink, a two-month stretch of 1858 in which London's primary water ...

As a result of the Great Stink, the government invested in the construction of a new sewerage system for London. This was designed by Joseph Bazalgette. The new system was designed in 1858 and ...

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 ...

Image caption, A cartoon from the time of the Great Stink of 1858 entitled Father Thames introducing his children to the fair city of London. His three ‘children’ are diphtheria, scrofula and ...