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

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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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