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The Great Stink of 1858
Miniseries
English
1 season
Dr Xand van Tulleken explores how an extraordinary heatwave struck London in the summer of 1858, which caused a terrible stench to rise from the River Thames. Although it was the largest city in the world at the time, Victorian London still had a medieval sanitation system.
The Great Stink of 1858
Miniseries
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