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

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 ...

They were built not only in London but across the UK following the particularly pungent summer of 1858, popularly known as The Great Stink. For years, the River Thames had been used to dump the ...