William Tullett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Tullett |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Tullett |
| SIGNATURE | TULLETT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8975-8031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Smellscape, Key-smell and Heritage: The Glasgow Subway 1896 to Present
Since its opening in 1896 the Glasgow Subway has been known for its distinctive smell. Using sources spanning its 130-year history, ranging from newspapers and TV documentaries to memoirs and social media, this article traces the history of that smell and highlights its shifting tarry, earthy and electric qualities as the subway underwent electrification, modernisation and museumification. In so doing, the article explores the fate of the subway …
The Smell of Scotland: Deodorisation, Identity, Worldmaking
This article introduces a special issue of the journal on ‘The Smell of Scotland’, exploring the history and heritage of smell in the context of the Scottish past and present. Evolving out of a Royal Society Edinburgh funded series of workshops on the same topic, the special issue focusses on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present. This introduction contextualises the key themes of the issue’s articles – deodorisation, identity, an…
Seeing Smell: Sourcing Olfactory Imagery Using Artificial Intelligence
How can artificial intelligence help to “see” smells in works of art? This article discusses the ways in which the Horizon 2020 Odeuropa project uses computer vision to search for olfactory imagery in digital heritage collections. It provides a literature review of the latest approaches to researching smell in art, and outlines the methodology for mining digital collections. It also raises questions about what it means to source smell in digital …
Knowing by Sensing
For this inaugural module of the #AHRSyllabus collection, we invited the historical smells team called Odeuropa to introduce best practice techniques for teaching sensory history in the classroom. Odeuropa is a cross-disciplinary collective of historians, computer scientists, chemists, perfumers, curators and heritage policymakers who are working to develop novel methods for collecting data about historical smells from text and image collections …
More than the Name of the Rose
Bodies in the belfry: Gender, sociability and urban space in early eighteenth-century London
Bells were central to eighteenth-century politics, culture and community, and yet we have little understanding of those that set them ringing. This article uses a manuscript compiled by the London bell-ringer and horologist William Laughton to trace how ringing offered men the opportunity to materialize civil manners, efface cultures of insult and work out forms of patriarchal fraternity through repetitive, ritual embodiment. Ringers imagined bel…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Making Whiffstory
A portrait of the Ulm patrician Helena Schermar hangs alongside a pendant of her husband, Anton, in the galleries of Museum Ulm, Ulm (see insert).The painting was probably to commemorate their wedding, which took place in 1628, with their partnership lasting for more than fifty years.The artist Andreas Schuch painted Schermar sumptuously dressed in a floral-patterned overskirt and a generous ruff.Several long loops of chain hang around her neck, …
Whiffstory
If an explosion occurs and no nose is there to sniff it, does it have a smell? The big bang unleashed a mix of matter that formed—and continues to form—the molecular building blocks of existence. Astrochemists and paleobiologists have illustrated that long before humans existed, before the ostensibly fateful Freudian moment when humans stood up on two legs and elevated their noses a few feet higher in the air than their quadrupedal relatives, a c…
Sensing the pandemic: Revealing and Re-Ordering the Senses
This article reviews an assembled archive of the literature published to date on the sensory dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as sensory scholars have often highlighted periods of sensory revolution, we find that the recent pandemic has augured some notable shifts, albeit often on the more micro and domestic scale. We present a five-sense sensorium that offers an overview of how the senses have been engaged with by scholars during the pa…
State of the Field: Sensory History
This article surveys the state of the field of sensory history. Thinking historically about the senses has a long history across a range of disciplines heading back through Annales scholars into the nineteenth‐century and beyond. Sensory history — which has now attracted its own book series, networks, and centres — has continued to develop alongside the broader interdisciplinary field of sensory studies. The practice of sensory history raises met…
Political Engines: The Emotional Politics of Bells in Eighteenth-Century England
This article asks how and why bells maintained their central place in political culture between 1660 and 1832, a question that can best be approached from the perspective of histories of the emotions and senses. Such a consideration of bells allows us to extend the concept of “emotives” to encompass material culture. Often believed to “speak,” bells were fundamental to a binary emotional regime: the joy and sorrow they expressed and created were …
Re-Odorization, Disease, and Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
This article argues that smell's place in nineteenth-century medicine and public health was distinctly ambiguous. Standard narratives in the history of smell argue that smell became less important in this period whilst also arguing that urban spaces were deodorized. The causal motor for the latter shift is medical theories about odour and miasma. By contrast, this article argues that sanitary practices of circulation, ventilation, and disinfectio…
Jingle bells
Grease and Sweat: Race and Smell in Eighteenth-Century English Culture
From 1690 to 1800 texts printed in England linked racial difference and foul odour through understandings of occupation, food, cosmetics and sweat. Even by the end of the eighteenth-century racial odour was represented as a labile, culturally and environmentally determined characteristic. This article traces how the social ‘use’ of olfactory stereotypes, particularly their links with cosmetics, food, and odorous spaces, determined the mobilizatio…
State of the Field: Sensory History
This article surveys the state of the field of sensory history. Thinking historically about the senses has a long history across a range of disciplines heading back through Annales scholars into the nineteenth‐century and beyond. Sensory history — which has now attracted its own book series, networks, and centres — has continued to develop alongside the broader interdisciplinary field of sensory studies. The practice of sensory history raises met…
Sensing the pandemic: Revealing and Re-Ordering the Senses
This article reviews an assembled archive of the literature published to date on the sensory dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as sensory scholars have often highlighted periods of sensory revolution, we find that the recent pandemic has augured some notable shifts, albeit often on the more micro and domestic scale. We present a five-sense sensorium that offers an overview of how the senses have been engaged with by scholars during the pa…
Grease and Sweat: Race and Smell in Eighteenth-Century English Culture
From 1690 to 1800 texts printed in England linked racial difference and foul odour through understandings of occupation, food, cosmetics and sweat. Even by the end of the eighteenth-century racial odour was represented as a labile, culturally and environmentally determined characteristic. This article traces how the social ‘use’ of olfactory stereotypes, particularly their links with cosmetics, food, and odorous spaces, determined the mobilizatio…
Re-Odorization, Disease, and Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
This article argues that smell's place in nineteenth-century medicine and public health was distinctly ambiguous. Standard narratives in the history of smell argue that smell became less important in this period whilst also arguing that urban spaces were deodorized. The causal motor for the latter shift is medical theories about odour and miasma. By contrast, this article argues that sanitary practices of circulation, ventilation, and disinfectio…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Whiffstory
If an explosion occurs and no nose is there to sniff it, does it have a smell? The big bang unleashed a mix of matter that formed—and continues to form—the molecular building blocks of existence. Astrochemists and paleobiologists have illustrated that long before humans existed, before the ostensibly fateful Freudian moment when humans stood up on two legs and elevated their noses a few feet higher in the air than their quadrupedal relatives, a c…
Grease and Sweat: Race and Smell in Eighteenth-Century English Culture
From 1690 to 1800 texts printed in England linked racial difference and foul odour through understandings of occupation, food, cosmetics and sweat. Even by the end of the eighteenth-century racial odour was represented as a labile, culturally and environmentally determined characteristic. This article traces how the social ‘use’ of olfactory stereotypes, particularly their links with cosmetics, food, and odorous spaces, determined the mobilizatio…
Jingle bells
Re-Odorization, Disease, and Emotion in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
This article argues that smell's place in nineteenth-century medicine and public health was distinctly ambiguous. Standard narratives in the history of smell argue that smell became less important in this period whilst also arguing that urban spaces were deodorized. The causal motor for the latter shift is medical theories about odour and miasma. By contrast, this article argues that sanitary practices of circulation, ventilation, and disinfectio…
Political Engines: The Emotional Politics of Bells in Eighteenth-Century England
This article asks how and why bells maintained their central place in political culture between 1660 and 1832, a question that can best be approached from the perspective of histories of the emotions and senses. Such a consideration of bells allows us to extend the concept of “emotives” to encompass material culture. Often believed to “speak,” bells were fundamental to a binary emotional regime: the joy and sorrow they expressed and created were …
State of the Field: Sensory History
This article surveys the state of the field of sensory history. Thinking historically about the senses has a long history across a range of disciplines heading back through Annales scholars into the nineteenth‐century and beyond. Sensory history — which has now attracted its own book series, networks, and centres — has continued to develop alongside the broader interdisciplinary field of sensory studies. The practice of sensory history raises met…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Making Whiffstory
A portrait of the Ulm patrician Helena Schermar hangs alongside a pendant of her husband, Anton, in the galleries of Museum Ulm, Ulm (see insert).The painting was probably to commemorate their wedding, which took place in 1628, with their partnership lasting for more than fifty years.The artist Andreas Schuch painted Schermar sumptuously dressed in a floral-patterned overskirt and a generous ruff.Several long loops of chain hang around her neck, …
Whiffstory
If an explosion occurs and no nose is there to sniff it, does it have a smell? The big bang unleashed a mix of matter that formed—and continues to form—the molecular building blocks of existence. Astrochemists and paleobiologists have illustrated that long before humans existed, before the ostensibly fateful Freudian moment when humans stood up on two legs and elevated their noses a few feet higher in the air than their quadrupedal relatives, a c…
Sensing the pandemic: Revealing and Re-Ordering the Senses
This article reviews an assembled archive of the literature published to date on the sensory dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as sensory scholars have often highlighted periods of sensory revolution, we find that the recent pandemic has augured some notable shifts, albeit often on the more micro and domestic scale. We present a five-sense sensorium that offers an overview of how the senses have been engaged with by scholars during the pa…
Seeing Smell: Sourcing Olfactory Imagery Using Artificial Intelligence
How can artificial intelligence help to “see” smells in works of art? This article discusses the ways in which the Horizon 2020 Odeuropa project uses computer vision to search for olfactory imagery in digital heritage collections. It provides a literature review of the latest approaches to researching smell in art, and outlines the methodology for mining digital collections. It also raises questions about what it means to source smell in digital …
Knowing by Sensing
For this inaugural module of the #AHRSyllabus collection, we invited the historical smells team called Odeuropa to introduce best practice techniques for teaching sensory history in the classroom. Odeuropa is a cross-disciplinary collective of historians, computer scientists, chemists, perfumers, curators and heritage policymakers who are working to develop novel methods for collecting data about historical smells from text and image collections …
More than the Name of the Rose
Bodies in the belfry: Gender, sociability and urban space in early eighteenth-century London
Bells were central to eighteenth-century politics, culture and community, and yet we have little understanding of those that set them ringing. This article uses a manuscript compiled by the London bell-ringer and horologist William Laughton to trace how ringing offered men the opportunity to materialize civil manners, efface cultures of insult and work out forms of patriarchal fraternity through repetitive, ritual embodiment. Ringers imagined bel…
Smellscape, Key-smell and Heritage: The Glasgow Subway 1896 to Present
Since its opening in 1896 the Glasgow Subway has been known for its distinctive smell. Using sources spanning its 130-year history, ranging from newspapers and TV documentaries to memoirs and social media, this article traces the history of that smell and highlights its shifting tarry, earthy and electric qualities as the subway underwent electrification, modernisation and museumification. In so doing, the article explores the fate of the subway …
The Smell of Scotland: Deodorisation, Identity, Worldmaking
This article introduces a special issue of the journal on ‘The Smell of Scotland’, exploring the history and heritage of smell in the context of the Scottish past and present. Evolving out of a Royal Society Edinburgh funded series of workshops on the same topic, the special issue focusses on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present. This introduction contextualises the key themes of the issue’s articles – deodorisation, identity, an…
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