Emily Cockayne
Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) UEA Associate Prof at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats.
Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
- Reposted by Emily CockayneThese strange color decisions of the 1560s do have a background story. A short 🧵 for #bookhistory.
- Great postdoc opportunity, to work with Prof Yvonne Shashoua on her Healthy Plastics from Waste project at the National Museum of Denmark: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- Reposted by Emily CockayneThrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
- Bois Durci plaque, France c.1857 from powdered sawdust (rosewood or ebony) & slaughterhouse blood, steam-heat hydraulically pressed to look like carved hard wood. An ethically complex compound, but my favourite 19thC plastic. These were sometimes stuck onto pianos to make them look more high-end.
- Context help! I’m trying to fix a possible date on this papier mache snuff box. I *think* the words are “Playing at Hazar”. Anyone got any leads? I suspect the box is e19thc and possibly American.
- The modern plastics story develops here, with billiard balls. A $10,000 competition in 1863 ramped up experimentation. These English-made 'Crystalate' (cellulose nitrate) balls, sold by Burroughes & Watts, date from the early interwar period. Fears that they could explode were eventually quashed.
- Monix Ivorine Sandwich Flags tell a story about plastics use c. 1930. Monix specialised in printing onto plastic; the company also made tags for garden plants. Possible sandwiches offered: 'cress', ham & tongue, sardine. Reuseable & wipe-cleanable, they straddle the fripperies/utilitarian divide.
- Halex Xylonite 'Cloth Brush', from the late 1930s. Made by the British Xylonite Company, an early plastics manufacturer, based in Hale End, Walthamstow from 1900. This is one of the objects that forms part of the collection I am using for research for my project at AIAS, Aarhus this year.
- Back to watercolour sketching, after to-ing and fro-ing to collect plastics for my project here in Aarhus. This cameo brooch is made from early thermoplastics, a melted down set of false teeth. The pink (gum) part is vulcanite, the ivory (tooth) cellulose nitrate - two plastics I am researching.
- Reposted by Emily CockayneShould you find yourself in the general Peterborough area, I'm giving a talk in aid of the John Clare Cottage appeal on Sat 15 Nov, 3pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inconvenie...
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- I live in Denmark at the moment, so haven’t been able to see my new paperback. Back for a flying visit, here she is at Waterstones, on the shelf two books away from PV Glob’s book on bog bodies — which I read as a (morbid) child, sparking my interests in history and Denmark!
- Handwriting help needed! What is this place or institution in Lambeth in 1862?
- Daily Telegraph today:
- Paperback publication day!
- Penning Poison is out in paperback soon! Exciting!
- Danish morning walk:
- Reposted by Emily Cockayne🎉Welcome at AIAS today:3️⃣4️⃣ fellows start in either an individual fellowship, in a theme group or in a tandem fellowship. They arrive from diverse research areas with explorative projects to be hosted and transformed at AIAS in an #interdisciplinary, #international community aias.au.dk/events/show/...
- One more in the series 'is this the same person many years apart?' What do we reckon?
- Another is this the same person a few years apart. Is he even wearing the same suit? This one is from Swansea, taken in the same photography studio:
- Does anyone think these photos could be of the same woman, a few years apart?
- Objects of Poverty edited by @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social & Vicky Holmes, is out in just over a month. It includes a chapter by me about cobbled together whistles. The cover features one of my whistles plus a bonkers barometer. Pre-order your copy! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...
- I last had time to sew in November. I'm trying to get back into it. I'm bad at faces, so apologies to @arifa.bsky.social for my version of the cover of your amazing book (which I loved so much). Rules : I reuse materials I already own / I can't spend longer sewing than reading
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- Reposted by Emily CockayneBit later than some, but happy to have finally finished my marking and have had a little holiday up in Scotland. If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.
- Preorder your copy now!
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- Reposted by Emily CockayneEight compulsory redundancies. Just how much do you hate your staff that you go through the trouble of destroying the livelihoods of these colleagues, for just *eight* salaries. What's that, in relation to the entire operating budget of the university? www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/s...
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- Handwriting gang, help me! Annie what? Liverpool 1875:
- Quote skeet with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe
- Anyone in need of kitten / puppet action for three minutes ought to go here (obvs thinking of you here, @noreenmasud.bsky.social ) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_K...
- Can anyone help me with these three signatures from 1882, please!
- Ok, so in big career news - this very exciting thing is happening. I'll be moving to Denmark after the summer. I can't wait to meet all the other new fellows!
- 🌍Nine AIAS-AUFF Fellows selected from all over the world. They will explore novel research projects, from ocean & climate change, hybrid warfare, neurodiverse cooperation to plastics & recycling, and will bring new perspectives and methods together in one house at AIAS🎉 aias.au.dk/events/show/...
