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Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours

Emily Cockayne

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EAN: 9781409027737
Published: 5 Apr 2012

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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.

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What the critics say

Vivid and absorbing...like all good history, it leaves the reader wanting to know more
- New Statesman

Intelligent, instructive and brightly funny
- The Times

A lively study of neighbourly relations.
- Sunday Telegraph

A fine book packed with generosity, rivalry, misbehaviour, snobbery, love, murder and politics.
- The Herald

I enjoyed Cockayne's book immediately
- Independent

This curtain-twitching account is bottom-up history at its breezy best
- Scotsman

A great read
- Spectator

An entirely delightful history of neighbour relations since the Middle Ages
- Country Life

A very detailed historical survey of the upside and the downside of neighbouring since about 1300.
- Daily Mail

A great insight into how our homes and communities have grown and changed.
- PA syndicated review - Manchester Evening News

This intriguing social history charts the concept of neighbours through British history in thorough detail
- Big Issue in the North

Informative but fun, with an important message about society, Cockayne’s history is a human one, with all the heartache and joy that entails
- Independent on Sunday

This lively social history documents nine centuries of disputes, noise levels, wartime camaraderie and carparking issues. Fascinating
- The Lady

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About the Author

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.