Emily Cockayne

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

Emily Cockayne
Born1973
NationalityBritish
OccupationHistorian

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.
  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.
  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.
  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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