<description>&lt;p&gt;June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global&amp;nbsp;center of trade and commerce. But&amp;nbsp;there’s something less&amp;nbsp;glamorous&amp;nbsp;going on in this&amp;nbsp;bustling metropolis:&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;smell. Every inch of&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;city smells like rotting, human waste. And this smell is actually&amp;nbsp;killing people. But no one is doing&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;about it – until today. How did&amp;nbsp;short-term thinking lead to a deadly problem? And how did an unlikely leader finally get London out of this very literal mess?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you to our guest, Professor Rosemary Ashton, author of &lt;em&gt;One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;To our listeners, thank you for subscribing to History This Week. We want to hear your feedback:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global center of trade and commerce. But there’s something less glamorous going on in this bustling metropolis: the smell. And it's killing people. How did short-term thinking lead to a deadly problem?

June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global&nbsp;center of trade and commerce. But&nbsp;there’s something less&nbsp;glamorous&nbsp;going on in this&nbsp;bustling metropolis:&nbsp;the&nbsp;smell. Every inch of&nbsp;the&nbsp;city smells like rotting, human waste. And this smell is actually&nbsp;killing people. But no one is doing&nbsp;anything&nbsp;about it – until today. How did&nbsp;short-term thinking lead to a deadly problem? And how did an unlikely leader finally get London out of this very literal mess?&nbsp; Thank you to our guest, Professor Rosemary Ashton, author of One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858. To our listeners, thank you for subscribing to History This Week. We want to hear your feedback:&nbsp;<a href="https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3a4FGqJ</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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The Great Stink

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