Emily Cockayne Explained

Emily Cockayne
Birth Date:1973
Nationality:British
Occupation:Historian

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020-06-25 . Rummage by Emily Cockayne review – the joys of rubbish . 2022-07-22 . the Guardian . en.
  2. Web site: Cockayne, Emily 1973-. Encyclopedia.com. 16 July 2017.
  3. Web site: Trust Funds full guide — Faculty of History. Hist.cam.ac.uk. 29 July 2017.
  4. Web site: Emily Cockayne. Penguin.co.uk. 29 July 2017.
  5. Web site: Dr Emily Cockayne - UEA. Uea.ac.uk. 29 July 2017.
  6. Web site: Hubbub by Emily Cockayne. Yale Books UK. 29 July 2017.
  7. News: Hirst. Christopher. 'Paperback: Hubbub, by Emily Cockayne'. 20 July 2017. The Independent. 21 March 2008.
  8. Capp. Bernard. Review of Hubbub. Renaissance Quarterly. 61. 1. 277–78. 10.1353/ren.2008.0118. 164029094. 15 July 2017.
  9. Web site: Morrison. Toni. "Back Talk: Toni Morrison". Thenation.com. 16 July 2017.
  10. Web site: Sweet. Roey. 'Urban History'. History.ac.uk. Institute of Historical Research. 16 July 2017.
  11. Book: Foyster. Elizabeth. A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. 2012. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh. 978-0-7486-1964-1. 312.
  12. Bour. Isabelle. Foreword: Noise and Sound in the Eighteenth Century. Études Epistémè. 2016. 29. 16 July 2017.
  13. Backscheider. Paula. 'Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century'. SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. 2009. 49. 3. 753. 16 July 2017.
  14. Web site: Organized Sound 23:2. 17 July 2017.
  15. Web site: 2021-06-08 . Hubbub . 2022-07-22 . Yale University Press . en.
  16. Mount. Harry. 'Keeping out the Joneses'. Literary Review. 1 April 2012. 16 July 2017.
  17. News: Stockley. Philippa. 'Cheek by Jowl by Emily Cockayne: review'. 20 July 2017. The Daily Telegraph. 2 April 2012.
  18. Web site: Rummage. Amazon.co.uk. Profile. 16 July 2017.
  19. News: Hughes. Kathryn. 'The Joys of Rubbish'. 4 August 2020. The Guardian. 25 June 2020.
  20. News: Knight. Lucy. 'Rummage by Emily Cockayne ... review'. 4 August 2020. The Sunday Times. 12 July 2020.
  21. Book: Magdalen College Oxford : a history . Cockayne . Wooding . Ferdinand . Brockliss . 2008 . Magdalen College . 9780953643523 . Oxford . 297496568.
  22. Cockayne. Emily. 2002. Cacophony, or, vile scrapers on vile instruments. Bad music in early modern English towns. Urban History. 29. 35–47. 10.1017/S0963926802001049. 145580511.
  23. Cockayne. Emily. 2003. Experiences of the deaf in early modern England. The Historical Journal. 46:3. 3. 493–510. 10.1017/S0018246X03003121. 159489424.
  24. Web site: Cockayne. Emily. 'Love thy neighbour'. Architectural-review.com. 16 July 2017.
  25. News: Cockayne. Emily. 'Annus mirabilis: 1771'. https://web.archive.org/web/20120725043654/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9393163/Annus-mirabilis-1771.html. dead. 25 July 2012. 16 July 2017. The Daily Telegraph. 14 July 2012.
  26. News: Cockayne. Emily. 'How did the Tudors smell?'. 16 July 2017. The Times. 15 January 2017.
  27. Web site: Cockayne. Emily. 'No room for those courgettes'. The-tls.co.uk. 16 July 2017.
  28. Web site: Cockayne. Emily. 'The Victorian Fight Against Filth'. 16 July 2017.
  29. Web site: Hebden Bridge; neighbours, Thinking Allowed - BBC Radio 4. BBC. 29 July 2017.
  30. Web site: Louise Bourgeois, Neighbours, Ad Women, Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4. BBC. 29 July 2017.
  31. Web site: What's All that Noise?, The Listening Service - BBC Radio 3. BBC. 29 July 2017.
  32. Web site: A History of Neighbours. 23 July 2012. Abc.net.au. 29 July 2017.
  33. Web site: Filth and stench. 8 June 2007. Radio National. 29 July 2017.
  34. Book: Hilliard. Christopher. The Littlehampton Libels. 2017. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 978-0-19-252026-5. 16 July 2017.
  35. Book: Penning Poison: A history of anonymous letters Hardcover – 14 Sept. 2023 . 12 July 2024 . www.amazon.co.uk.

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