Smell and the Past

What if researchers interested in 'the past' used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool for articulating the past.<br/> <br/>Assessing how both we and our ancestors approach understand and conceptualise smell Tullett shows how archives can be 're-odorized' to uncover narratives that are only implicit in or obscured by the historical record. From perfume libraries to organic compounds emitted by historical objects this book acts as a guide for employing our olfactory senses when researching and studying history in order to understand and communicate the past more fully. Employing 'olfactory figures' examples <i>Smell and the Past</i> shows how historical narratives and arguments can be found through a structured olfactory experience and demonstrates how our understanding of the past and its relationship with the present is enriched by opening our minds and using our noses.<br/> <br/><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program project ODEUROPA under grant agreement number 101004469.</i>