Humanities Society - Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

Humanities at Wolfson
Dr William Tullet Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University
Date 18/02/2020 at 17.45 - 18/02/2020 at 19.00 Where Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College

The Humanities Society arranges weekly talks (during term time) from various disciplines across the Humanities. The talks are open to anyone and free to attend.

Humanities at Wolfson

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.

Refreshments from 17.45, talk begins at 18.00 and ends in time for Formal Hall reception.