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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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What the nose doesn’t know

Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.

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A nose through Blythe House

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

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The Key to Memory: Follow your nose

Elissavet Ntoulia explores what a pair of pomanders can tell us about how and why we remember.

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  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox -- 'Nose Surrounding' pox
  • Vienna Group Portrait - Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat, 1905
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: The nose - alcoholic's red nose
  • Ivory artificial nose.
  • Ivory artificial nose.
  • Carl Wilhelm Nose. Stipple engraving by E.K.G. Thelott after Haug, 1789.
  • Silver plated artificial nose.
  • Mouse nose, transverse section
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