William Tullett wins best postgraduate paper prize

History PhD student William Tullett, has just won the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies President’s Prize for best postgraduate paper at their annual conference, for a paper entitled Materiality and the Senses: Crafting Eighteenth-Century ‘Perfumery'.

The conference which took place in January 2015 at St Hugh’s College Oxford, is an annual three day interdisciplinary event hosted by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, presenting a huge variety of papers every year. 

Materiality and the Senses: Crafting Eighteenth-century ‘Perfumery' draws on a database of hundreds of 17th and 18th-century perfumery recipes and surviving examples of smelling bottles, pomanders and other scented objects, to examine how attitudes to the making and use of perfume changed during the period from 1660-1800. 

'I feel very honoured to have been awarded the prize and I am very grateful to the judging panel,' says William. 'An article on a separate topic called, The Macaroni’s ‘Ambrosial Essences’: Perfume, Identity and Public Space in Eighteenth-Century England, is also due out later this year in the society’s journal, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.'

Congratulations to William who also recently won a CLASH fellowship through the AHRC funded LAHP partnership, to develop an adult learning study day at the V&A Museum, centred around early modern perfumery.