The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: United Kingdom
Conway, H. 2003
‘Dead, but not buried: bodies, burial and family conflicts’, Legal Studies, 23:3, 423-452.
Davies, D. 1991
Cremation Today and Tomorrow, Nottingham: Alcuin/Grow Books.
Kellaher, L., Hockey, J. & Prendergast, D. 2010
‘Wandering lines and cul-de-sacs: trajectories of ashes in the United Kingdom, in Hockey, J., Komaromy, C. & Woodthorpe, K. (eds) The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 133-147.
Kellaher, L., Prendergast, D. & Hockey, J. 2005
‘In the shadow of the traditional grave’, Mortality, 10:4, 237-250.
Light, D., Rugg, J., & Young, C. 2022
The disposal of cremation ashes in tourism settings: practices, impacts and management’, Current Issues in Tourism, 26:8, 1354-1366.
Prendergast, D., Hockey, J. and Kellaher, L. 2006
‘Blowing in the wind? Identity, materiality and the destination of human ashes’, Journal of the Royal Anthropology Institute, 12:4, 881-898.
Rumble, H., Troyer, J., Walter, T. & Woodthorpe, K. 2014
‘Disposal or dispersal: environmentalism and final treatment of the British dead’, Mortality, 19:3, 243-260.
Woodthorpe, K. 2010
‘Private grief in public spaces: interpreting memorialisation in the contemporary cemetery’, in J. Hockey, C. Komaromy & K. Woodthorpe, K. (eds) The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 117-132.
Woodthorpe, K., Rumble, H., Corden, A. & 5 others 2022
‘My memories of the time we had together are more important’: direct cremation and the privatisation of UK funerals’, Sociology, 56:3, 556-573.
