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October 31, 2014
in European History, History

Dancing on the Dead: George Walker and Dirty Old London

October 31, 2014
in European History, History

Lee Jackson, author of Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth, wrote a series of posts for the Yale University Press London Blog to explain how the inventors of ‘sanitary science’ nevertheless lived in what remained a notoriously filthy city. Some of these entries will be appearing here on the

February 12, 2009
in American History, History, Humanities

Kathleen Brown in conversation on Foul Bodies

February 12, 2009
in American History, History, Humanities

When we look back at the conditions that early Americans tolerated every day (sewage streaming through the streets, animals sharing spaces with their keepers) it’s amazing that they ever achieved that near-godly state known as cleanliness. In an enlightening discussion at the University of Pennsylvania, YUP author and UPenn historian