Making them 'real' is the problem we often run up against. I've heard a visitor describe our Disease Street as "smelling like smoky bacon crisps". Visitors' smell associations are often more disparate and unpredictable than those cued by other senses.
Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 4d agoMy new article on Jorvik Viking Centre and its use of smells over the last 40 years has just come out today in The Public Historian! online.ucpress.edu/tph/article-... if you can't access it and want to read it, let me know.
![The historic midwifery and sex guide "Aristotle's Compleat Masterpiece" on display at Thackray Museum of Medicine.
The page is open to a description of female sexual organs (referred to as "the secret parts of that curious piece of nature that we are to lay open"). It describes the clitoris as "like a yard [penis] in situation, substance, composition, and erection", arguing that this is the part that "gives delight in copulation ... without this, the fair sex neither desire mutual embraces, nor have pleasure in them, nor conceive by them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ldvs43uvd7crgzoo7va62bqz/bafkreifzocmj3ax6tda6usj3qw2b3ota2br3nkrp3tcmcxrpyiqgdtlhia)
