Description
Date: 16th September 2026, 7pm
Venue: David's Bookshop. This is an in person event (not available to attend online)
Event to start at 7pm, doors opening 6:30pm.
Please note there are no physical tickets, your name will be added to a guestlist after purchasing and this will get you entry at the event. Ticket price is redeemable off the cost of the book on the night.
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Join us for an event with Will Tullett for Sniff, a remarkable account of the weird and wonderful history of smell.
Across vast periods of time and around the globe, smell has been central to human life. From the incense burned in medieval religious rituals to the use of modern sniffer dogs, smells have been central to our sense of identity, our ability to build communities, and, perhaps less positively, to mark those deemed unwelcome within them. Our sense of smell brings us the pleasure of good food, wine, and perfume, but it also warns us of dangerous fire, gas, and rot.
What did the past smell like? Why does our own world smell the way it does?
Moving through key locations, from libraries to forests, churches to hospitals, Will Tullett explores the peculiar history of smell. We smell witchcraft and murder, fin de siècle Parisian theatres, and cinemas in 1960s New York. What emerges is not just a history of smells, but biographies of the many noses that have sniffed them.
