The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Funeral industry: England
Berridge, K. 2001
Vigor Mortis: the End of the Death Taboo, London: Profile Books.
Buckham, S. 1999
“The men that worked for England they have their graves at home”: consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones, in S. Tarlow & S. West (eds.) The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain, London: Routledge. 199-214.
Buckham, S. 2005
‘Delusions of grandeur? The influence of company management, civic pride and private sentiment upon the cemetery landscape at York’ in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 114-52.
Ekelund, R. & Ford, G. 1997
‘Nineteenth century urban market failure? Chadwick on funeral industry regulation’, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 12, 27-51.
Herman, A. 2010
‘Death has a touch of class: society and space in Brookwood Cemetery, 1853-1903’, Journal of Historical Geography, 36:3, 405-422.
Jupp, P.C. 1997
‘Enon Chapel: no way for the dead’ in P.C. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 90-104.
Morley, J. 1971
Death, Heaven and the Victorians, London: University of Pittsburgh Press.
