The Great Stink: The Summer London Choked on Itself

<p>In eighteen fifty-eight, the Thames was an open sewer carrying the waste of two million people — and in a brutal heatwave, it began to rot. The stench drove Parliament from its own chamber, curtains soaked in lime, handkerchiefs over their faces.</p><p>August Mercer tells how a smell did what thirty years of dead children could not: it forced the powerful to act. And how one engineer, working from a completely wrong theory of disease, accidentally saved hundreds of thousands of lives. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production</em></p>