Book review: Nick Higham’s The Mercenary River

Imagine London where you can turn on a tap for a glass of water, but only for a few hours a day and never on Sundays. That was London’s modern water supply for several centuries until comparatively recently.
When we think of the huge achievements in water supply and sewage removal over the centuries and congratulate ourselves on how great London was at delivering these things, we may not be aware of just how bloody awful the new “modern world” was for those living through it.
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