Emily Cock
@emilyncock.bsky.social
Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
August 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
It was a joy yesterday to celebrate graduating Cardiff University School of History, Archaeology & Religion students. Especially since they have so wholeheartedly supported their staff 'at risk of redundancy' since January (and still...). Llongyfarchiadau!
July 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It was a joy yesterday to celebrate graduating Cardiff University School of History, Archaeology & Religion students. Especially since they have so wholeheartedly supported their staff 'at risk of redundancy' since January (and still...). Llongyfarchiadau!
The first 'E' in 'Europe' is quite superfluous.
July 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The first 'E' in 'Europe' is quite superfluous.
GINORMOUS turnout for the trans equality march in Cardiff 🏳️⚧️
April 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
GINORMOUS turnout for the trans equality march in Cardiff 🏳️⚧️
It's that time of year again.
April 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's that time of year again.
Future podcast title: Love at First Sight; Or, The Gay in a Flutter (1750)
April 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Future podcast title: Love at First Sight; Or, The Gay in a Flutter (1750)
If you don't blink, you'll see the back of my head as I talked to kids and parents about Australian convicts, what their life was like, and how historians use evidence. Then they drew them based on runaway notices.
March 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
If you don't blink, you'll see the back of my head as I talked to kids and parents about Australian convicts, what their life was like, and how historians use evidence. Then they drew them based on runaway notices.
I know you weren't involved originally, but if you could telepathically stop me from deciding to attempt quantitative analysis ever again I would be most grateful.
March 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I know you weren't involved originally, but if you could telepathically stop me from deciding to attempt quantitative analysis ever again I would be most grateful.
Cardiff University Music students putting on a rousing show in defence of their school
February 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Cardiff University Music students putting on a rousing show in defence of their school
You are spared my terrible video, but shout out to the Cardiff University Music students bringing an instrumental protest to the cool night air as we leave work.
February 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
You are spared my terrible video, but shout out to the Cardiff University Music students bringing an instrumental protest to the cool night air as we leave work.
Proofs! 'Cripping the Archive', edited by @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social and @jenbarclay.bsky.social coming from University of Illinois Press very soon...
January 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Proofs! 'Cripping the Archive', edited by @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social and @jenbarclay.bsky.social coming from University of Illinois Press very soon...
I managed my first quick raid of the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social manuscripts before #BSECS2025 tomorrow so have achieved the lifelong ambition of solemnly promising not to kindle flames etc in the library.
January 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I managed my first quick raid of the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social manuscripts before #BSECS2025 tomorrow so have achieved the lifelong ambition of solemnly promising not to kindle flames etc in the library.
I'm starting my day with finishing touches on my first @bsecs.bsky.social paper at a local cafe. But this pretty fella is making concentrating on "Gertrude Savile and the Anxious Management of Health & Household" very difficult!
January 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I'm starting my day with finishing touches on my first @bsecs.bsky.social paper at a local cafe. But this pretty fella is making concentrating on "Gertrude Savile and the Anxious Management of Health & Household" very difficult!
Storm Darragh may have kyboshed our Christmas performance plans, but we at Songbirds Choir Cardiff still have joy in our hearts and a 'Hark The Herald Angels Sing/Hot To Go' mashup to keep us warm. www.instagram.com/reel/DDsEkNv...
December 18, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Storm Darragh may have kyboshed our Christmas performance plans, but we at Songbirds Choir Cardiff still have joy in our hearts and a 'Hark The Herald Angels Sing/Hot To Go' mashup to keep us warm. www.instagram.com/reel/DDsEkNv...
This year's #UKDHM theme is Disability Livelihood and Employment & that includes... strikes! Here are workers at the Bristol Blind Asylum going on strike to demand a pay increase in 1912. Here, blind workers did jobs like weaving baskets and mats to sell. It ran from the late 18thC to the 1960s.
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
This year's #UKDHM theme is Disability Livelihood and Employment & that includes... strikes! Here are workers at the Bristol Blind Asylum going on strike to demand a pay increase in 1912. Here, blind workers did jobs like weaving baskets and mats to sell. It ran from the late 18thC to the 1960s.
A very busy day @beinghumanfest.bsky.social but lots of new portraits of runaway prisoners drawn by students from Ely and surrounding areas, and some great chats about the British-Australian transportation system.
November 16, 2024 at 4:13 PM
A very busy day @beinghumanfest.bsky.social but lots of new portraits of runaway prisoners drawn by students from Ely and surrounding areas, and some great chats about the British-Australian transportation system.
This Friday & Saturday, Cardiff Uni's School of #History, #Archaeology & #Religion will be hosting jam-packed @beinghumanfest.bsky.social events: www.beinghumanfestival.org/2024/hubs/ca...
On Saturday, join me to draw people transported to Australia as convicts, based on their runaway descriptions!
On Saturday, join me to draw people transported to Australia as convicts, based on their runaway descriptions!
November 14, 2024 at 9:10 AM
This Friday & Saturday, Cardiff Uni's School of #History, #Archaeology & #Religion will be hosting jam-packed @beinghumanfest.bsky.social events: www.beinghumanfestival.org/2024/hubs/ca...
On Saturday, join me to draw people transported to Australia as convicts, based on their runaway descriptions!
On Saturday, join me to draw people transported to Australia as convicts, based on their runaway descriptions!
I'm working through some clemency petitions from British prisoners trying to have their sentences mitigated. They do bring the drama: "A man's life depends on the prompt delivery of this letter."
August 21, 2024 at 10:29 AM
I'm working through some clemency petitions from British prisoners trying to have their sentences mitigated. They do bring the drama: "A man's life depends on the prompt delivery of this letter."
I'm at #HiHFest choir festival this weekend to sing with Songbirds choir. Kicked off excellently with European Queer Choir doing a bit of Marlene Dietrich🎩
August 17, 2024 at 10:23 AM
I'm at #HiHFest choir festival this weekend to sing with Songbirds choir. Kicked off excellently with European Queer Choir doing a bit of Marlene Dietrich🎩
Obviously a trap for historians.
January 22, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Obviously a trap for historians.
Tonight/heno 5:30! For #DisabilityHistoryMonth I'll be giving a little online public talk on people using mobility aids in Britain 1600-1800. Sir Thomas Fairfax used this chair, Francis Calverley a horse, Gertrude Savile & George II coaches #UKDHM cardiff.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 12, 2023 at 9:55 AM
Tonight/heno 5:30! For #DisabilityHistoryMonth I'll be giving a little online public talk on people using mobility aids in Britain 1600-1800. Sir Thomas Fairfax used this chair, Francis Calverley a horse, Gertrude Savile & George II coaches #UKDHM cardiff.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Since I mentioned the hens in my bio: behold the huge effort one put in this morning!
November 24, 2023 at 10:38 AM
Since I mentioned the hens in my bio: behold the huge effort one put in this morning!
I'm sorry! I'm sure your manually corrected ones look *particularly* nice. I send a conciliatory photo of one of our hens, and hope the rest of the weekend goes more smoothly!
November 3, 2023 at 9:08 PM
I'm sorry! I'm sure your manually corrected ones look *particularly* nice. I send a conciliatory photo of one of our hens, and hope the rest of the weekend goes more smoothly!
Just not what you want to see when you finally reach the archive.
November 1, 2023 at 8:13 PM
Just not what you want to see when you finally reach the archive.
Hello! I have to start somewhere here, so how about this snarky assessment of 17yo George Woodman's musical skills when he was transported to New South Wales for theft in 1833 and claimed to be a professional violin player?
October 19, 2023 at 4:25 PM
Hello! I have to start somewhere here, so how about this snarky assessment of 17yo George Woodman's musical skills when he was transported to New South Wales for theft in 1833 and claimed to be a professional violin player?