Filthy Cities

The sheer amount of sludge and excrement festering in the streets of London 700 years ago is hard to conceive. Historian Dan Snow foolishly decides to spend the night as a medieval muckraker shifting a staggering six tonnes of waste. Medieval Londoners were forced to mount wooden platforms to avoid the disgusting mess underfoot, but Dan discovers the modern city was built on this filth.

Il y a un peu plus de 200 ans, Paris était la ville la plus nauséabonde d'Europe. L'historien Dan Snow, le temps d'un épisode, va plonger son nez dans l'histoire malodorante de la Révolution française ! Grâce à des effets spéciaux époustouflants, nous partons nous promener dans les rues pestilentielles de la capitale, où les gens du peuple s'échinent à des occupations toxiques, dans un univers impitoyable de pauvreté et de maladies.

Historian Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throes of the industrial revolution. Millions fleeing persecution in Europe arrived to find a New York consumed by filth and corruption. This massive immigrant population was crammed together in disease-ridden slums with some forced to cook with clothes dye and floor cleaner to disguise the stench of fetid, rotting meat.