Exhibition: Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life
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Channel: The Lancet · 2013 · Science & Technology
Article published on 4 Sept 2011 Read the article: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60486-8/fulltext. Author and raconteur Quentin Crisp had a relaxed approach to housework. “After the first four years”, he explained, “the dirt doesn't get any worse”. This attitude would have won him few friends in 17th-century Delft. According to the Wellcome Collection exhibition Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life, the Dutch were famous for their scrupulous housekeeping: a cleanliness that was next to godliness.
