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Emily Cockayne
Born1973
NationalityBritish
OccupationHistorian

Emily Cockayne (born 1973) is a British historian, known for her work on the history of sensory nuisance.

Education

Cockayne was educated at the University of Cambridge, where she took a first-class degree in history in 1994.[1] She received the Members' History Prize in 1997.[2] She wrote a doctoral thesis at Jesus College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Robert W. Scribner and Keith Wrightson, and was awarded her PhD in 2000. She was a Prize Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards lectured at the Open University.[3] She is currently a lecturer in early modern history at the University of East Anglia.[4]

Career

In 2007, Cockayne published Hubbub. Filth, Noise & Stench in England 1600-1770.[5] A reviewer in The Independent commented: 'Cockayne draws us into a world where snickleways (narrow, often noisome passages) might be contaminated by fallen axunge (pig fat used to grease axles) or the overflow from a "house of easement"'.[6] The book has been described as 'a treasure-house of material for scholars'.[7] Toni Morrison said Hubbub was 'a really extraordinary book', and that it had influenced her 2008 novel A Mercy.[8] Hubbub is often included in academic bibliographies of seminal works in modern urban history and the history of everyday life.[9][10][11][12][13]

Cheek by Jowl. A History of Neighbours followed in 2012. A reviewer in Literary Review described Cheek by Jowl as 'authoritative if heavy-going';[14] while The Telegraph noted that 'Cockayne does not marshal her subject particularly linearly ... [but] crisply accounts for our disappearing notion of neighbourliness'.[15]

In 2020, Cockayne published a history of recycling and material reuse entitled Rummage.[16] The Guardian hailed Rummage as 'brilliantly original and deeply-researched',[17] while The Sunday Times called it 'rich and meticulous'.[18]

In addition to her academic work, which has included contributions to the history of Magdalen College Oxford[19] and essays on noise and deafness in Urban History[20] and The Historical Journal[21] respectively, Cockayne has written for Architectural Review;[22] The Daily Telegraph;[23] The Times;[24] Times Literary Supplement;[25] and The Wall Street Journal.[26] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes Thinking Allowed,[27] and Woman's Hour;[28] BBC Radio 3's The Listening Service;[29] and in international broadcasts.[30][31]

Cockayne is working on a study of anonymous letter-writing for Oxford University Press.[32]

Books

  • Hubbub. Filth, Noise & Stench in England 1600-1770 (Yale University Press, 2007). ISBN 9780300112146
  • Cheek by Jowl. A History of Neighbours (Bodley Head, 2012). ISBN 9781409027737
  • Rummage. A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go (Profile, 2020). ISBN 9781781258514

References

  1. ^ "Cockayne, Emily 1973-". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Trust Funds full guide — Faculty of History". Hist.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Emily Cockayne". Penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Dr Emily Cockayne - UEA". Uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Hubbub by Emily Cockayne". Yale Books UK. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  6. ^ Hirst, Christopher (21 March 2008). "'Paperback: Hubbub, by Emily Cockayne'". The Independent. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  7. ^ Capp, Bernard. "Review of Hubbub". Renaissance Quarterly. 61 (1): 277–78. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  8. ^ Morrison, Toni. ""Back Talk: Toni Morrison"". Thenation.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  9. ^ Sweet, Roey. "'Urban History'". History.ac.uk. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  10. ^ Foyster, Elizabeth (2012). A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 312. ISBN 978 0 7486 1964 1.
  11. ^ Bour, Isabelle (2016). "Foreword: Noise and Sound in the Eighteenth Century". Études Epistémè. 29. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  12. ^ Backscheider, Paula (2009). "'Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century'" (PDF). SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 49 (3): 753. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Organized Sound 23:2". Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  14. ^ Mount, Harry (1 April 2012). "'Keeping out the Joneses'". Literary Review. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  15. ^ Stockley, Philippa (2 April 2012). "'Cheek by Jowl by Emily Cockayne: review'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  16. ^ "Rummage". Amazon.co.uk. Profile. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  17. ^ Hughes, Kathryn (25 June 2020). "'The Joys of Rubbish'". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  18. ^ Knight, Lucy (12 July 2020). "'Rummage by Emily Cockayne ... review'". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  19. ^ Cockayne, Wooding, Ferdinand, Brockliss (2008). Magdalen College Oxford : a history. Oxford: Magdalen College. ISBN 9780953643523. OCLC 297496568.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ Cockayne, Emily (2002). "Cacophony, or, vile scrapers on vile instruments. Bad music in early modern English towns". Urban History. 29: 35–47 – via https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/cacophony-or-vile-scrapers-on-vile-instruments-bad-music-in-early-modern-english-towns/D0BE57DAFCF7FF36F578735E4635F742. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)
  21. ^ Cockayne, Emily (2003). "Experiences of the deaf in early modern England". The Historical Journal. 46:3: 493–510 – via https://www.jstor.org/stable/3133559. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)
  22. ^ Cockayne, Emily. "'Love thy neighbour'". Architectural-review.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  23. ^ Cockayne, Emily (14 July 2012). "'Annus mirabilis: 1771'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  24. ^ Cockayne, Emily (15 January 2017). "'How did the Tudors smell?'". The Times. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  25. ^ Cockayne, Emily. "'No room for those courgettes'". The-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  26. ^ Cockayne, Emily. "'The Victorian Fight Against Filth'". Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  27. ^ "Hebden Bridge; neighbours, Thinking Allowed - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  28. ^ "Louise Bourgeois, Neighbours, Ad Women, Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  29. ^ "What's All that Noise?, The Listening Service - BBC Radio 3". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  30. ^ "A History of Neighbours". Abc.net.au. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  31. ^ "Filth and stench". Radio National. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  32. ^ Hilliard, Christopher (2017). The Littlehampton Libels. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
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