The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Memorials: Vernacular culture
Bergenren, C. 1982
Folk art on gravestones: the Glorious Contrast’, Markers 2, 171–83.
Caulfield, E. 1991
‘Connecticut gravestones articles by Dr. Ernest J. Caulfield’, Markers 8, 1–338
Cox, G., Giordano, A. & Juge, M. 2010
The geography of language shift: a quantitative cemetery study in the Texas Czech community’, Southwestern Geographer, 14, 3-22.
Eckert, E. 2001
‘Gravestones and the linguistic ethnography of Czech-Moravians in Texas’, Markers, 8, 146-187.
Farber, J. (ed.) 1987
‘Stonecutters and their work’, Markers 4, 131–76.
Kotalainen, S. 2013
‘Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed: the writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’, Mortality, 18:2, 173-194.
Mayer Gradwohl, D. 2004
‘Judah Monis’s puzzling gravestone as a reflection of his enigmatic identity’, Markers 21, 66-97.
Thompson, G. 2006
‘Tombstone lettering in Scotland and New England: an appreciation of a vernacular culture’, Mortality, 11:1, 1-30.
