Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense

by William Tullett

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“What Tullett tries to do, essentially, is recreate people’s physical experiences of something that is apparently immaterial, sense and smell. And it really succeeds.” Read more...

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Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense

by William Tullett

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler

Histories by Herodotus

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning

On War
by Carl von Clausewitz

Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler

Histories
by Herodotus

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown