The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Grand historical narratives
Arato, F. 2002
‘To save the living: the eighteenth-century origins of the cemetery outside the city’, Belfagor, 57:5, 623-6.
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Ariès, P. trans P. Ranum 1976
Western Attitudes towards Death: from the Middle Ages to the Present, London: Marion Boyars.
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Laqueur, T. 2015
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Laqueur, T. 2002
‘The places of the dead in modernity’, in C. Jones & D. Wahrman (eds) The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820, Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 17-32.
Rugg, J. 2018
Consolation, individuation and consumption: towards a theory of cyclicality in England funerary practice’, Cultural and Social History, 15:1, 61-78.
