@yalebooks: What is the connection between a piece of paper and a cake? @Will Tullett author of Sniff: A History of Smells explains why your old books may smell sweet. Sniff is a weird and wonderful history of smell, out now in the UK and out 27 Oct in the US. Smells have been important 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 dangers like 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. #History #newbooks #nonfiction #scent #smell

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