Bogs, Baths And Basins: The Story Of Domestic Sanitation

From Roman times right up to modern-day luxury, David J. Eveleigh leads us chronologically through the story of sanitation. With the aid of new research he briefly covers the early rather primitive sanitation devices such as cesspits and urban dung heaps, and moves on to describe the advances that came with the onslaught of developing technology from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. With first hand accounts and evidence from diaries and contemporary records, this book traces the history of inventions that have affected everyone throughout history, told with a lively combination of human interest and drama.