Emily Cockayne

Emily Cockayne
Born1973
NationalityBritish
OccupationHistorian

Emily Cockayne (born 1973) is a British historian, known for her work on sensory nuisance and material culture.[1]

Education

Cockayne was educated at the University of Cambridge, where she took a first-class degree in history in 1994.[2] She received the Members' History Prize in 1997.[3] 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.[4] She is currently Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.[5]

Career

In 2007, Cockayne published Hubbub. Filth, Noise & Stench in England 1600-1770.[6] 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"'.[7] The book has been described as 'a treasure-house of material for scholars'.[8] Toni Morrison said Hubbub was 'a really extraordinary book', and that it had influenced her 2008 novel A Mercy.[9] Hubbub is often included in academic bibliographies of seminal works in modern urban history and the history of everyday life.[10][11][12][13][14] A second edition of Hubbub was issued in 2021 with a new afterword.[15]

Cheek by Jowl. A History of Neighbours followed in 2012. A reviewer in Literary Review described Cheek by Jowl as 'authoritative if heavy-going';[16] while The Telegraph noted that 'Cockayne does not marshal her subject particularly linearly ... [but] crisply accounts for our disappearing notion of neighbourliness'.[17]

In 2020, Cockayne published a history of recycling and material reuse entitled Rummage.[18] The Guardian hailed Rummage as 'brilliantly original and deeply-researched',[19] while The Sunday Times called it 'rich and meticulous'.[20]

In addition to her academic work, which has included contributions to the history of Magdalen College Oxford[21] and essays on noise and deafness in Urban History[22] and The Historical Journal[23] respectively, Cockayne has written for Architectural Review;[24] The Daily Telegraph;[25] The Times;[26] Times Literary Supplement;[27] and The Wall Street Journal.[28] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes Thinking Allowed[29] and Woman's Hour;[30] BBC Radio 3's The Listening Service;[31] and in international broadcasts.[32][33]

Cockayne's study of anonymous letter-writing, Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.[34][35]

Personal life

Cockayne lives in East Anglia. She has two children, Ned and Maud.

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
  • Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters (OUP Oxford, 2023). ISBN 9780198795056

References

  1. ^ "Rummage by Emily Cockayne review – the joys of rubbish". the Guardian. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Cockayne, Emily 1973-". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Trust Funds full guide — Faculty of History". Hist.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Emily Cockayne". Penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Dr Emily Cockayne - UEA". Uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Hubbub by Emily Cockayne". Yale Books UK. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  7. ^ Hirst, Christopher (21 March 2008). "'Paperback: Hubbub, by Emily Cockayne'". The Independent. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  8. ^ Capp, Bernard. "Review of Hubbub". Renaissance Quarterly. 61 (1): 277–78. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0118. S2CID 164029094. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  9. ^ Morrison, Toni. ""Back Talk: Toni Morrison"". Thenation.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  10. ^ Sweet, Roey. "'Urban History'". History.ac.uk. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  11. ^ Foyster, Elizabeth (2012). A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-7486-1964-1.
  12. ^ Bour, Isabelle (2016). "Foreword: Noise and Sound in the Eighteenth Century". Études Epistémè. 29. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Organized Sound 23:2". Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  15. ^ "Hubbub". Yale University Press. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  16. ^ Mount, Harry (1 April 2012). "'Keeping out the Joneses'". Literary Review. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  17. ^ Stockley, Philippa (2 April 2012). "'Cheek by Jowl by Emily Cockayne: review'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  18. ^ "Rummage". Amazon.co.uk. Profile. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  19. ^ Hughes, Kathryn (25 June 2020). "'The Joys of Rubbish'". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  20. ^ Knight, Lucy (12 July 2020). "'Rummage by Emily Cockayne ... review'". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  21. ^ Cockayne; Wooding; Ferdinand; Brockliss (2008). Magdalen College Oxford : a history. Oxford: Magdalen College. ISBN 9780953643523. OCLC 297496568.
  22. ^ Cockayne, Emily (2002). "Cacophony, or, vile scrapers on vile instruments. Bad music in early modern English towns". Urban History. 29: 35–47. doi:10.1017/S0963926802001049. S2CID 145580511.
  23. ^ Cockayne, Emily (2003). "Experiences of the deaf in early modern England". The Historical Journal. 46:3 (3): 493–510. doi:10.1017/S0018246X03003121. S2CID 159489424.
  24. ^ Cockayne, Emily. "'Love thy neighbour'". Architectural-review.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  25. ^ Cockayne, Emily (14 July 2012). "'Annus mirabilis: 1771'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 25 July 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  26. ^ Cockayne, Emily (15 January 2017). "'How did the Tudors smell?'". The Times. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  27. ^ Cockayne, Emily. "'No room for those courgettes'". The-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  28. ^ Cockayne, Emily. "'The Victorian Fight Against Filth'". Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  29. ^ "Hebden Bridge; neighbours, Thinking Allowed - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  30. ^ "Louise Bourgeois, Neighbours, Ad Women, Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  31. ^ "What's All that Noise?, The Listening Service - BBC Radio 3". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  32. ^ "A History of Neighbours". Abc.net.au. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  33. ^ "Filth and stench". Radio National. 8 June 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  34. ^ Hilliard, Christopher (2017). The Littlehampton Libels. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-252026-5. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  35. ^ Penning Poison: A history of anonymous letters Hardcover – 14 Sept. 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2024 – via www.amazon.co.uk.