Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go (Hardback)

Brilliantly researched and stuffed to the brim with weird and wonderful facts. Rummage lifts the lid on rubbish to reveal the story of reuse and recycling in all its fascinating glory. -- Lara Maiklem, author * Mudlarking * A marvellous history of the second and third lives of objects and, just as important, a timely reminder that there are ways out of a throw-away-society. -- Frank Trentmann, author of Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First Pertinent, fascinating and full of intricate, joyful detail. -- Annie Gray, author of The Greedy Queen One of those rare books, a marvellous curiosity shop of fascinating historical gems, objects and insights, a feat of scholarship and a salutary book for our throw-away times. -- Rebecca Stott, author * Ghostwalk * Praise for Hubbub: 'England's past, as so richly revealed by Emily Cockayne ... It's a veritable feast of filth and foulness, and I loved every minute of it.' * Literary Review * ... wonderful book on neighbourly nuisances ... Hubbub is also extremely funny. To read it is to be transported back to that sense of child-like wonder in everything gross and revolting. * Evening Standard * ... a thoroughly entertaining read, one whose greatest pleasures lie in the extraordinary accumulation of incidental detail to be found in its teeming pages. * The Sunday Times * Praise for Cheek by Jowl 'This curtain-twitching account is bottom-up history at its breezy best. * Scotsman * Emily Cockayne's spry, beady-eyed socio-historical study of nine centuries of neighbourly behaviour ... is intelligent, instructive and brightly funny. * The Times * I enjoyed Cockayne's book immensely * Independent *