Nature & Environment

Learn how the growth of one of the world’s great cities has affected its environment – with the help of our related objects, stories and blogs.

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Nature & Environment
Nature & Environment

The Whitechapel Fatberg

A 130-tonne whopper of a blockage

Health & Disease
Health & Disease

How Bazalgette built London's first super-sewer

Taming a city’s-worth of sewage

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Jumbo the Elephant

How a 19th-century animal celebrity gave us a massive new word

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Post-Medieval
Post-Medieval

Drinking vessel

1600-1799

Archaeology
Archaeology

Fire bucket (fire bucket)

1660-1666; 17th century

Library
Library

Relacion nueva, y verdadera del formidable incendio, que ha sucedido en 12. de Setiembre, de este presente año, en la gran ciudad de Londres (pamphlet)

Cipres, Franciso

1666