The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 19c England
Hurren, E. & King, S. 2005
“Begging for a burial”: form, function and conflict in nineteenth-century pauper burial’, Social History, 30, 3, 321-341.
Jeffers, A. 2020
The politics of death: death and politics in Victorian England’, in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present, ebooks, Nomos, 78-87.
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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.
Laqueur, T. 1993
‘Cemeteries, religion and the culture of capitalism’, in J. Garnett & C.Matthew (eds) Revival and Religion since 1700, London: Hambleton Press, 183-200.
Laqueur, T. 1983
‘Bodies, death and pauper funerals’, Representations, 1, 109-31.
Lewis, R. 1952
Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement, London: Longman, Green and Company.
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Malchow, H. 1985
‘Public gardens and social action in Late Victorian Britain’, Victorian Studies, 29:1, 97-124.
Manning, B. 1952
The Protestant Dissenting Deputies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morgan, J. 1989
‘The burial question in Leeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ in R. Houlbrooke (ed.) Death, Ritual and Bereavement, London: Routledge, 95-104.
Morley, J. 1971
Death, Heaven and the Victorians, London: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Nash, G. 2000
‘Pomp and circumstances: archaeology, modernity and the corporatisation of death: early social and political Victorian attitudes towards burial practice’, in P. Graves-Brown (ed.) Matter, Materiality and Culture, London: Routledge, 124-142.
Parsons, B. 2018
‘Robertson at the City: portrait of a cemetery superintendent’, Genealogy, 2, 31.
Parsons, B. 2024
‘The Victorian funeral’, in M. Kirby (ed.) Last Rites: Funerals and Funeral Monuments, London: Ecclesiastical and Church Monuments Society, 95-116.
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Pearsall, C. 1999
‘Burying the Duke: Victorian mourning and the funeral of the Duke of Wellington’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 27, 365-93.
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Penny, N. 1974
‘The commercial garden necropolis of the early nineteenth century and its critics’, Garden History, 2, 61-76.
Pickles, J. 1993
The Victorian Cemetery: an Illustrated Exhibition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Library.
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Pinfold, J. 1997
‘The Green Ground’ in P. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 76-89.
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Portier T. 2025
‘Building the city of the dead: Bath and burial reforms, 1820–1860’, Mortality, 30:1, 233-51.
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Portier, T. 2025
‘Stigmatising poverty: understanding the treatment of poor and destitute bodies in British cities (1800–60)’, Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11:1, 1-19.
Rawnsley, S. & Reynolds, J. 1977
Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford’, History Workshop, 4, 215-221.
