Emily Cockayne

A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay. Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences—traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares—but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, this book explains in vivid detail. Focusing on offences to the eyes,...