Emily Cock
Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
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- Reposted by Emily Cock📜Bequest of the day📜 Royalist Sir Nicholas Crispe asks for an autopsy in his 1666 will: 'I would have my body opened that the Phisitiones may see the cause of my soe long shortnes of breath to be helpfull to my Posterity that are troubled with the same Infirmity'. #EarlyModern 🗃️
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- Couldn't work out why I had started the lecture by shouting "Florida!" It was the automatic captioning's take on "bore da" ("good morning" in Welsh)
- Historians! Putting a plea out for suggestions of digital projects that foreground Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic histories?
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- Reposted by Emily CockIn the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights
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- Reposted by Emily CockI think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
- I've spent part of this afternoon recording an interview with Dr Andy Mycock about the many interesting effects of life with a phallic surname. You'll hear us on BBC Radio 4 in April, but in the meantime those near Manchester can catch him in person at (and fundraising for) the Portico Library. 🐓
- Reposted by Emily CockHere are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
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- Academic publishing means a swift turnaround on proofs for an article accepted... two years ago 🥳
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- I'm obliged to point out that my 👃 book is on sale. share.google/kZFn117QImU2...
- HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky
- Ooh this looks amazing!
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- Reposted by Emily CockHi Blueskystorians - I'm looking for your favourite, recent-ish examples of work that is conceived and published as local history, but reaches out to national/global themes. Any thoughts?
- Reposted by Emily CockAnother exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke. Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3at://did:plc:2xh3ekkjbuyi3e5pbfnakuyt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2ilk674e52f
- I cut my hand on an orange.
- Reposted by Emily Cock🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up! Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians
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- Reposted by Emily CockThanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue! My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
- We did get a bit of good news this week.
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- The full @genderandhistory.bsky.social issue is now out, packed with fascinating studies from late antique Rome to 2000s Tanzania. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
- doi.org/10.1111/1468... Publication day! ‘Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System’ #OpenAccess in a @genderandhistory.bsky.social sky.social special issue on Gender and Segregation. How did disability affect prisoners’ fates? Was it gendered? 1/6
- Today I learned about the National Meteorological Library and Archive (in Exeter): www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/lib...
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- Reposted by Emily CockHooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️
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- Reposted by Emily Cock—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
- If the day starts at 5am*, an 8:30am mince pie is entirely reasonable. *in this instance, c/o baby
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- Reposted by Emily CockThe British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
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- Reposted by Emily CockNext semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
- Reposted by Emily CockHistory UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
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- Reposted by Emily CockReading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!
- Gertrude Savile on her nephew-in-law in 1745: "as far from a bright as a Polite Man". Savage.
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- I am turning 40 this week and my main thought is how old that seemed for Diana Lethaby when I read 'Tipping the Velvet' at 18.
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- This week, the trick to getting our baby to sleep is getting a perfect balance of rocking, bobbing, patting her back... and me belting out "Bread of Heaven".
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- Reposted by Emily CockCfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
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- If you are also in the midst of updating any early modern teaching materials and student guides for this year, this list is invaluable!
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- Reposted by Emily CockSave the Dates in your planners! The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed. Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026 University of Leeds @sshmedicine.bsky.social Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed
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