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.