World Toilet Day on November 19 aims to raise awareness of the importance of safe sanitation. In Europe, the history of the toilet is full of dirty secrets. What goes in, must come out ...

The toilet is simply a fixture that is used to deposit human waste. Nowadays toilets are composed of a bowl like feature at the bottom, with a hinged round seat at the top. Once solid or liquid ...

Image caption, The history of toilets goes back a lot further than this roll of paper. In Ancient Egypt, around 3100 BC, having an indoor toilet showed a wealthy status. If you were rich ...

The day the world ran out of toilet paper was, well, a crappy day for all of us. OK, let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet. There are still a few rolls of toilet paper left somewhere in ...

Welsh poet Ifor Ap Glyn has a passionate interest in the toilet its history and how it has evolved over the centuries right up to the development of the current design Here he explains the reasons ...