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What Did The Past SMELL like?

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

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The History of Smell in the British Museum

Museums were very smelly unintentionally in the 19th century. Camphor is one of the preparations that's used to stop insects getting at taxidermy. Insecticides are another really big use of smells. So both are really interested in the idea of histories of smell.

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