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Emily Cockayne
Emily graduated with a first class degree in History from Girton College, Cambridge in 1994, and moved to Jesus College, Cambridge for postgraduate studies. She won the Cambridge Members’ History Prize in 1997 for a dissertation entitled ‘This Isle is Full of Noise; or, the Melodic Milkmaid and the Twanking Tinker.’ She was elected to a Prize Fellowship in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1999. Awarded a doctorate for her thesis ‘A Cultural History of Sound in England 1560-1760’ in 2000, she has written two journal articles - 'Cacophony, or, vile scrapers on vile instruments. Bad music in early modern English towns', Urban History, May 2002, and ‘Experiences of the deaf in early modern England’, The Historical Journal, September 2003. Since 2003 Emily has been an Associate Lecturer with the Open University. She lives with her busy husband and noisy daughter in an ugly house in Nottinghamshire.
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Clare Alexander
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Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
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