Religion: Protestant Nonconformity

Chadwick, O. 1987

The Victorian Church Part 2: 1860-1901, London: SCMP.

Fraser, D. 1970

‘The Leeds churchwardens 1828-50′, Publication of the Thoresby Society, 53, 1-22.

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.

Rehlinghaus, F. 2014

‘The reinvention of Protestant funeral ceremonies in 19th century Germany’, in C. Rotar, M. Rotar & A. Teodorescu (eds) Dying and Death in the 18th-21st Century, Volume 2, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 112-136.

Rugg, J. 2013

Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Rugg, J. 1999

‘Nonconformity and the development of early cemeteries in England, 1820-1850′, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, 6, 5, 309-21.

Rugg, J. 2000

‘Ownership of the place of burial: a study of early nineteenth-century urban conflict in Britain’, in R. Morris and R. Trainor (eds) Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond since 1750, Aldershot: Ashgate, 211-225.

Rugg, J. 2014

‘The Burial Laws Amendment Act of 1880 and strategies of evasion in rural North Yorkshire’, Northern History, 51: 1, 113-30.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract