Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

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• Dr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
• Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Anthony Pickles.

Smells and smelling and are unjustly neglected across many academic disciplines, yet both have an intriguing history. This talk reveals how people thought about smelling in eighteenth-century England – what smells were, what they did, and how people sensed them – and uses this to uncover some key transformations in eighteenth-century medicine and social life.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.

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