Ep. 33 – Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
The summer of 1858 was hot and stinky in London and filled with stories and scandals.
Disraeli, de Rothschild, and the Struggle to Admit Jews to Parliament
Rosemary Ashton— What was it like to live in London through one of the hottest summers on record, with the River Thames emitting a sickening smell as a result of the sewage of over two million inhabitants being discharged into the river and floating up and down with the tide, never