Cheek by Jowl
A History of Neighbours
Published on 4. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-09-954694-8 (ISBN)
Description
Almost everyone has a neighbour. Neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. They fascinate and worry us in equal measure. Soap operas watched by millions play with every lurid permutation of relationships in fictional neighbourhoods. Disputes over gigantic Leylandii and noise nuisance turn nasty and fill newspaper columns. These stories have a rich history - as long as we have lived in shelters, we have had neighbours.
Emily Cockayne traces the story of the British neighbour through nine centuries - spanning Medieval, Tudor and Victorian periods, two world wars and up to today's modern, virtual world. Cheek by Jowl is social history at its most colourful and compelling and puts the people back in the houses and the houses back on the streets.
Emily Cockayne traces the story of the British neighbour through nine centuries - spanning Medieval, Tudor and Victorian periods, two world wars and up to today's modern, virtual world. Cheek by Jowl is social history at its most colourful and compelling and puts the people back in the houses and the houses back on the streets.
Reviews / Votes
Vivid and absorbing...like all good history, it leaves the reader wanting to know more -- Peter Wilby * New Statesman * Intelligent, instructive and brightly funny -- Iain Finlayson * The Times * A lively study of neighbourly relations. -- Philippa Stockley * Sunday Telegraph * A fine book packed with generosity, rivalry, misbehaviour, snobbery, love, murder and politics. -- Alistair Mabbott * The Herald * I enjoyed Cockayne's book immediately -- Rebecca Armstrong * Independent * This curtain-twitching account is bottom-up history at its breezy best -- Michael Kerrigan * Scotsman * A great read -- Penelope Lively * Spectator * An entirely delightful history of neighbour relations since the Middle Ages -- Rupert Uloth * Country Life * A brisk but impressively comprehensive survey. * Reader's Digest * A very detailed historical survey of the upside and the downside of neighbouring since about 1300. -- Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
348 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-954694-8 (9780099546948)
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E-Book
04/2012
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€12.99
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Person
Emily Cockayne graduated with a first class degree in History from Girton College, Cambridge in 1994 and moved to Jesus College, Cambridge for postgraduate studies. Emily was awarded a doctorate for her thesis 'A cultural history of sound in England 1560-1760' in 2000, a year after being elected to a Prize Fellowship in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. In January 2003 she became an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She lives in Norwich with her husband and two children.