Concrete mills at the Northern Outfall Sewer in London, 1860. Picture Credit: Otto Herschan Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Cleaning up the town

As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation

Podcast

As English cities grew, the need for social reform and sanitation grew with them. Jeremy Black joins Graham Stewart to talk sewers, urbanism and do-goodery.

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