The stinking streets and hovel houses - Choice medieval
diseases--plague, smallpox, leprosy--and how to get them - Rotten rulers
and gruesome tortures - A day in the life of a London serf - The real
Dick Whittington - Richard III and the princes in the Tower - The creepy
clergy and naughty nuns - Hotel rates at the Bloody Tower - Streamline
lavatories and the new hygienic sewerage systems (only kidding!) - Petty
crimes and savage punishments
Famine, the Black Death, impossible taxes, open sewers in the middle of
the streets, livestock in your living room and criminal kings are just
some of the pleasures of the city at its smelliest and vilest moment.