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Stinking Foreshore To Tree-lined Avenue: Rethinking The Cleansing Of The Sewage Filled River Thames of Mid Nineteenth Century London (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nineteenth century London saw rapid population growth, leaving traditional methods of sewage removal unable to cope with the volume of waste being produced. Waves of cholera left disjointed city government unable to provide clean drinking water and remove waste. By 1858 the Thames was a gigantic sewer, which combined with unseasonable...