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Gemma McLean-Carr

@gemmamcarr.bsky.social

PhD Student looking at Smells, Odours and Sinophobia in 19th and 20th Century Britain 👃 University of Edinburgh | Convenor of AHGN (UoE) | Museum Supervisor at Royal Scots Dragoon Museum, Edinburgh Castle 🖼

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Gemma McLean-Carr@gemmamcarr.bsky.social · 3w ago

My first journal article, "Seeing Stench: Identity and Odour in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century anti-Scottish Discourse," has been published in a special edition of The Scottish Historical Review! I have such a wonderful time going beyond my PhD research topic and writing about Scotland!

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 4w ago

(3/) then we have a really interesting piece on ethnicity, race, and Scottish identity in the eighteenth century from @gemmamcarr.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A piece in the Telegraph today (www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/27e9c89...) that reminds everybody that Cecilia Bembibre and I are interested in the UK smells that YOU might want to preserve for posterity (and you can log them here: smelluk.org/participate/)

UK Heritage Smell Inventory - Smell Heritage UK

The research is part of an investigation on the smells that people in the United Kingdom consider meaningful and would like to preserve for the future. The study is led by UCL Institute for Sustainabl...

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Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I will never tire of reading ordinary people's descriptions of the smells that have defined them. It feels like the most intimate, generous, entry into another person's life. A person unfurls their world and it wraps those wreaths of scent about you both and draws you together.

HistoryLab@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our first seminar of the academic year is taking place on Thursday 2nd October! 🤩 Tawana Kunaka will be presenting her research titled British Brute and Benevolence which investigates the role of colonial violence and the mystique of British anti-racism in sustaining imperial authority. (1/2)

History Lab Presents "British brute and Benevolence: An Investigation into the use of Colonial Violence and the Mystique of Anti-British Racism During British Imperialism in Relation to the Baptist War (1831-1) and the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) by Tawana Kunaka. 2nd October, 5.45pm-7pm, online via Zoom. Tawana Kunaka holds a BA in History and Politics from the University of Liverpool. She is now pursuing an MA in Contemporary British History at King’s College London, focusing on the impact of colonialism on Britain and its influence on racialised perceptions of immigrants and non-white Britons. In 2025, she presented at the Lancaster Postgraduate Conference on her paper ‘Stella Dadzie and the Significance of experience on the Black radical tradition’. Tawana’s research seeks to contribute as a progressive force in academia, using historical inquiry not only to understand the past but also to envision more equitable futures.This research investigates the role of colonial violence and the mystique of British anti-racism in sustaining imperial authority. Popular memory of the British Empire often omits the violence found within the colonial period, instead Britain is often presented as a benevolent power committed to justice and humanitarian progress. By using Perry’s conception of the ‘mystique of British anti-racism’, this study examines how such myths were constructed and maintained despite repeated episodes of colonial brutality.
Gemma McLean-Carr@gemmamcarr.bsky.social · last yr.

I had the opportunity to present at the 2025 British Postgraduate China Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow today: “Sniffing China from the West: The Role of Olfactory Prejudice in Shaping Mobility and Diaspora”. Thank you to the other researchers and organisers, I learnt so much!

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Gemma McLean-Carr@gemmamcarr.bsky.social · last yr.

I will also be delivering a paper on Olfactory Sinophobia! Please join if you are in or around London next week; there are some fascinating events scheduled!

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · last yr.

30-31 May, next week, 2-day conference on sensory public history ant UCL East in London including, on the Friday, me talking about Jorvik Viking Centre’s smells. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/sensory-p... #sensoryhistory #smellstudies #smellheritage

Gemma McLean-Carr@gemmamcarr.bsky.social · last yr.

I am excited to present at the Oxford International History of East Asia Seminar later today. I will be talking about Opium, Odours, and Olfactory Prejudice in China and London's Chinatown. If interested, please feel free to join!

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Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · last yr.

Realised local libraries have access to audiobook apps - great! But now convinced where books are in a series they don’t stock all of the audiobooks and that this is some kind of conspiracy to give you a taste and then force you to cough up elsewhere for access to the next books in the series 🫠

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last yr.

What happens when we try to preserve the peddlers' calls which made up the soundscape of Peking? As Odila Schröder writes 'As is the case with most local art forms, the process of heritagisation has fundamentally changed the art form itself'. www.historyworkshop....

Noise, Nostalgia, and the Sound of Beijing’s Peddlers

What happens in the process of preserving the 'sounds of old Beijing'? Odila Schröder explores the heritagisation of Beijing's peddler calls.

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