It also helped prove the link between polluted water and cholera. A cartoon from 'Punch' magazine, 1858, the year of the 'Great Stink'. It shows Father Thames presenting his children to the female ...

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 ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I was frequently lectured in elementary school for my bathroom humor. “No one is supposed to think about poop!” I was often told. It turns out that a ...

There was a time when London became so smelly that politicians had to intervene – and the solution is still dotted across ...