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https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-Victorian-Society-default.jpg1200675London’s dustheaps were mountainous. For centuries they shaped the city’s skyline and spoke of the societies and industries that made them. This lecture examines the (literal) rise and fall of these lost landscapes, their associated industries and the people who made them.