# excavating stories from victorian era trash dumps

Around the Internet: A Quintet of Articles – Preservation of Historic… » Mar 24, 2016… This week, we've picked five interesting stories or topics that… trash sites in England with Excavating Stories From Victorian-Era Trash Dumps ... Phwi.org

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The 19th-Century Night Soil Men Who Carted Away America's Waste » Mar 15, 2016… “Night soil” was the name euphemistically given to human waste because… Enjoying This Story?… In Washington, D.C., one of the city's dumping grounds was a field near the… In 1872, New York contracted the Manhattan Odorless Excavating Company… The era of the night soil men had come to an end. Atlasobscura.com

'What the Victorians Threw Away' Catalogs Victorian-Era Trash… » Mar 15, 2016… A researcher aims to uncover what nineteenth-century garbage says about… Excavating Stories From Victorian-Era Trash Dumps. Citylab.com

Digging Up The Roots Of Modern Waste In Victorian-Era Rubbish… » Jun 1, 2016… A Dundee marmalade jar (left) is among items recently unearthed from a 19th century landfill behind a manor house in East Anglia. In Victorian ... Npr.org

Bottle digging in old dumps can yield collectable finds - BBC News » May 9, 2013… Digging up bottles from old rubbish dumps may be an unusual pastime but… England selected… are common finds on Victorian and Edwardian rubbish dumps, although this late… So from about 1880 onwards, councils started paying to have rubbish dumped in landfill.… Share this story About sharing. Bbc.co.uk

London's Big Dig Reveals Amazing Layers of History » Workers digging out the foundation for a new 38-story office block had come upon the… Entire neighborhoods were leveled, the rubble used as landfill, and the next… SECOND CENTURY Archaeologists unearthed these Roman-era skulls near… Georgians, Regency rakes, and Victorians, each of whom added to the pile. Nationalgeographic.com

Death in the city: the grisly secrets of dealing with Victorian London's… » Jan 22, 2015… As well as sewerage, another “waste removal” problem plagued London in the 19th century: the disposal of the dead.…. pressure on the remaining sites, while parochial cemeteries were still under construction:…. The greatest change in the post-Victoria era, of course, has been not aesthetic, but the ... Theguardian.com

Digging Through Victorian Trash for Bone Toothbrushes and Broken… » Mar 18, 2016… The ongoing project excavates Victorian England's trash to examine how the… “ Trash tells stories the history books don't, particularly about the lives of… whilst sampling an historic rubbish dump pic.twitter.com/4MLPHs8SDS. Hyperallergic.com

5 Parts of New York That Are Built On Garbage » Jan 28, 2015… The ocean has been New York's garbage dump for centuries.… The digging of the subway system, Grand Central, and even the original World Trade Center… FDR Drive Is Built on Rubble From WWII England… As The New York Times explained in a September 1886 story called To Build a Bigger Jail, ... Gizmodo.com