The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Funeral industry: Britain
Church, R. & Smith, B. 1966
‘Competition and monopoly in the coffin furniture industry, 1870-1915’, Economic History Review, 19:3, 621-641.
Fletcher, S. & McGowan, W. 2021
‘The state of the UK funeral industry’, Critical Social Policy, 41:2, 249–269.
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Fletcher, S. & McGowan, W. 2024
‘The financial life of funerals before death’, in S. Mallon and L. Towers (eds) Death, Dying and Bereavement: New Sociological Perspectives, London: Routledge, 27-39.
Parsons, B. 2018
The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the Twentieth Century: From Undertaker to Funeral Director, Bingley: Emerald.
