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Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go Hardcover – 9 July 2020

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'Brilliantly original ... shimmering book. ... What binds this book together and gives it a numinous quality is the tenderness that the author displays for other people's ingenious leftovers, from brotherly teeth to Puritan kites.' Guardian
'Rich, meticulous, lively' Sunday Times

Rummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems from the rubbish pile of centuries past and introduces us to the visionaries, crooks and everyday do-gooders who have shaped the material world we live in today - like the fancy ladies of the First World War who turned dog hair into yarn, or the Victorian gentlemen selling pianofortes made from papier-mâché, or the hapless public servants coaxing people into giving up their railings for the greater good.

In this original and fascinating new history, Cockayne illuminates our relationship to our rubbish: from the simple question of how we reuse and recycle things (and which is better), to all the weird and wonderful ways it's been done in the past. She exposes the hidden work (often done by women) that has gone into shaping the world for each future generation, and she shows what lessons can be drawn from the past to address urgent questions of our waste today.

Print length

304 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Profile Books
Publication date

9 July 2020
Dimensions

14.4 x 3.5 x 22.2 cm
ISBN-10

1781258511
ISBN-13

978-1781258514
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Publisher : Profile Books; Main edition (9 July 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 1781258511
ISBN-13 : 978-1781258514
Dimensions : 14.4 x 3.5 x 22.2 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 192,505 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 662 in Cultural History of London

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Smart and encyclopaedic...a lively and frequently surprising history of what we reuse and what we throw away. ― The i Paper

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

Brilliantly original ... shimmering book. ... What binds this book together and gives it a numinous quality is the tenderness that the author displays for other people's ingenious leftovers, from brotherly teeth to Puritan kites.

― Guardian

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

Rummage overflows with detail. She rescues wonderfully bizarre artefacts from rubbish heaps to plot Britain's changing attitudes to consumption and recycling ... the way she embraces historical anecdote, social critique and personal reminiscence never seems ponderous ... By breaking down the boundaries between waste and overlooked treasure, Rummage will make us think twice about what we throw away in future. ― Spectator

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

Rich, meticulous, lively ― Sunday Times

Wonderful...worth re-reading ― Bookmunch

I enjoyed Cockayne's book immensely ― Independent

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An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages

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Mrs Delphine Houlton

Fun read backed by detailed research

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2020

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Fascinating overview of our long history of reusing and recycling. Good insight into difficulties of community recycling plus how attitudes to managing leftovers fuelled invention and entrepreneurship both successful and unsuccessful. Very readable.

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Charles Oppenheim

Fascinating social history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2020

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Rather strangely arranged going backwards in time, but a well-researched and interesting history of how the British (England in particular) have handled, recycled and treated left over objects and goods. Well written and full of curious facts.

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Denis Reed

Detailed history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2020

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Extremely detailed history of recycling and repurposing.Not an easy read such is the depth of history and detail. This is a book to read a few pages a day rather than treating it as a you would a novel.

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Annarella

I liked it, learned a lot and I recommend it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2020

I was attracted by the title and the unusual title and I can say it was a fascinating and informative read.
A lot of anecdotes, facts and explanations and a good storytelling that keeps you hooked.
I liked it, learned a lot and I recommend it.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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Mel O'B

Really interesting!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2020

Fascinating, well worth a read, full of the kind of random stuff I love reading about. Never knew rubbish could be so interesting

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J. B. L. Rhodes

Packed with fascinating information, but badly let down by its format

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2020

The book itself is very interesting and well-written, but the format is poor. The text layout is very dense indeed, and the text itself is peppered with references to notes which are at the end of the book. Most references are to sources, but some have further nuggets of information so one doesn't want to ignore them. Physically (though not intellectually) this is a wearisome read, and would have benefitted from a bit of extra thought at the layout stage.

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