Egypt’s presidential election results and Wagner’s African gold trade

Chapter 1

Sniffing out a story

Have you ever wondered what London smelled like during the plague years? Now you can find out with European research project Odeuropa, which develops novel methods of collecting information about smell using digital text and image collections. William Tullett is a lecturer in early modern history at York University, researcher at Odeuropa and author of ‘Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives’. He joins Georgina Godwin to tell us more.