The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Sörries, R. (ed.) 2002
Großes Lexikon der Bestattungs – und Friedhofskultur. Wörterbuch zur Sepulkralkultur. Volksundlich-Kulturgeschichlicher Tiel: Von Abdankung bis Zweitbestattung, Braunschweig: Thalacker Medica.
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Sörries, R. & Knöll, S. (ed.) 2005
Großes Lexikon der Bestattungs – und Friedhofskultur. Wörterbuch zur Sepulkralkultur. Archäologish-Kunstgeschichtlicher Tiel: Von Abfallgrube bis Zwölftafelgesetz, Braunschweig: Thalacker Medica.
Sörries, R., Diefenbach, J., Kuhle, D. & 2 others (ed.) 2010
Großes Lexikon der Bestattungs – und Friedhofskultur. Wörterbuch zur Sepulkralkultur. Praktisch-aktueller Teil: Von Abfall beseitung bis Zwei-Felder-Wirtschaft, Braunschweig: Thalacker Medica.
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Sowerby, S. 2021
‘Victorian gardens of death’, in C. Bloom (ed.) Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 467-508.
Spennemann, D. 1999
‘No room for the dead: burial practices in a constrained environment’, Anthropos, 94:1/3, 35-56.
Spicer, A. 1997
‘“Rest their bones”: fear of death and Reformed burial practices’, in W. G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds) Fear in Early Modern Society, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 167-183.
Spicer, A. 2000
‘“Defyle not Christ’s kirk with your carrion”: burial and the development of burial aisles in post-Reformation Scotland’, in B. Gordon and P. Marshall (eds) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 149-169.
Spicer, A. 2016
“God will have a house”: defining sacred space and rites of consecration in early seventeenth-century England’, in A.Spicer & S.Hamilton (eds) Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, London: Routledge, 207-230.
Spijker, G. 2005
‘The role of social anthropology in the debate on funeral rites in Africa’, Exchange, 34:3, 156-176.
Spira, T. 2014
‘Neoliberal transitions: the Santiago general cemetery and the affective economies of counter-revolution’, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 21: 4, 344-63.
Spivey, S. 2025
‘Death enchanted: comparing conventional and conservation burial in the United States with a technological mediation lens’, Mortality, 30:1, 51-66.
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Spongberg, A. & Becks, P. 2000
‘Inorganic soil contamination from cemetery leachate’, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 117:1-4, 313-327.
Spongberg, A. & Becks, P. 2000
‘Organic contamination in soils associated with cemeteries’, Journal of Soil Contamination, 9:2, 87-99.
Squire, V. 2016
‘Governing migration through death in Europe and the US: identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism’, European Journal of International Relations, 23:3, 513-32.
Staecke, J. 2003
‘A Protestant habitus: 16th-century Danish graveslabs as an expression of changes in belief’, in D. Gaimster & R. Gilchrist (eds) The Archaeology of Reformation, 1480-1580, London: Routledge, 415-436.
Stangl, P. 2007
‘Revolutionaries’ cemeteries in Berlin: memory, history, place and space,’ Urban History, 345, 3, 407-426.
Stanley-Blackwell, L. & Linkletter, M. 2019
‘Inscribing ethnicity: a preliminary analysis of Gaelic headstone inscriptions in Eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton’, Genealogy, 2:3, 241-55.
Stannard, D. 1977
The Puritan Way of Death: a Study in Religion, Culture and Social Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stanosis, A. 2012
‘Dead but delightful: tourism and memory in New Orleans cemeteries’, in K. Cox (ed.) Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History, University Press of Florida, 247-266.
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Staudt, C. 2021
‘Redirecting contemporary funeral rituals and practices’, in K. Rothstein & C. Staudt (eds) The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, 74-94.
