Encouragingly, there may be a historical (and largely unknown) precedent for tackling climate change: Victoria London’s handling of the “Great Stink”, where growth had turned the River ...

The Great Stink of 1858 which brought the nation's legislature to a standstill is one of the tumultuous moments in London history — like the Great Fire of 1666 and the Blitz. But the sewers were ...

that the curtains of the Commons were soaked in chloride of lime ...' The crisis came to a peak in the 'Great Stink' of London in 1858. Such was the overpowering smell from the Thames, that the ...

They were built not only in London but across the UK following the particularly pungent summer of 1858, popularly known as The Great Stink. For years, the River Thames had been used to dump the ...

Cholera epidemics, the 'Great Stink' and miasmas combined to create a death rate in Britain's cities higher than at any time since the Black Death. The Government was forced to face up to the need ...