The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Dead body: Historical
Scandura, J. 1996
‘Deadly professions: Dracula, undertakers and the embalmed corpse’, Victorian Studies, 40, 1, 1-30.
Schwyzer, P. 2007
Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Searcy, E. 2014
‘The dead belong to the living: disinterment and custody of dead bodies in nineteenth-century America’, Journal of Social History, 48:1, 112-134.
Snyder-Reinke, J. 2016
‘Afterlives of the dead: uncovering graves and mishandling corpses in 19th century China’, Frontiers of History in China, 11:1, 1-20.
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Swan, R. 2000
‘Prelude and aftermath to the Doctor’s Riot of 1788: a religious interpretation of black and white reaction to grave robbing’, New York History, 81:4, 417-56.
Tarlow, S. 1999
Wormie clay and blessed sleep: death and disgust in later historic Britain’, in S. Tarlow & S. West (eds) The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain, London: Routledge, 183-198.
Thorsheim, P. 2011
‘The corpse in the garden: burial, health and the environment in nineteenth-century London’, Environmental History, 16:1, 1-31.
Verdery, K. 1999
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change, Chichester: Columbia University Press.
Westerhof, D. 2008
Death and the Noble Body in Medieval England, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.
Yurchak A. 2015
Bodies of Lenin: the hidden science of communist sovereignty’, Representations 129:1, 116–57.
