This website is a resource for the history of health, hygiene, purity and cleanliness, from our deep past onwards to the present day.  The website is run by historian Virginia Smith, it hosts a condensed version of her book Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity, as well as a selection of the past works and publications that can be viewed for free. More works will be added, and new questions posed, from time to time. It also features many images collected over the years, a personal autobiography and bibliography, and the original website for CLEAN.