In Part II of our series “London Stinks” we look into the history of air pollution in this world city, which began more than 500 years ago, and culminated in the deadliest smog in recorded memory, killing as many as 12,000 people in 1952.

• Medium: The Great Smog
• Breathing in London's history: from the Great Stink to the Great Smog
• YouTube: London’s Great Smog of 1952, The London Museum
• Battersea Power Station | Our Story
• Monet's obsession with London fog | Claude Monet | The Guardian
• BBC NEWS | UK | England | Pollution call on smog anniversary
• The Killer Fog of '52 : NPR
• The Reason London is Renowned for Being Foggy - TheCultureTrip
• Fumifugium, John Evelyn, 1661

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Artwork: Brittany Schall

Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod

"A Foggy Day" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

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