The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Weston, D. 1989
The Sleeping City: the Story of Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney, NSW: Hale and Iremonger.
Whaley, J. 1981
‘Symbolism for the survivors: the disposal of the dead in Hamburg in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, in J. Whaley (ed.) Mirrors of Mortality, London, Europa, 80-105.
Keywords
Wheatley, N. 2020
Final Journey: The Untold Story of Funeral Trains, Cheltenham: The History Press.
Keywords
White, A. 2025
‘Funereal monuments and monumental funerals: England in the Early Modern period’, in M. Kirby (ed.) Last Rites: Funerals and Funeral Monuments, London: Ecclesiastical and Church Monuments Society, 67-94.
White, S. 2015
The Churchyards of the Church in Wales: A Legal History, Bangor: The Welsh Legal History Society.
Keywords
White, S. 2002
‘A burial ahead of its time? The Crookenden burial case and the sanctioning of cremation in England and Wales’, Mortality, 7:2, 171-190.
Keywords
Whitley, S.C., Garcia-Rada, X., Bardhi, F. & 2 others 2022
‘Relational spending in funerals: caring for others loved and lost’, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 32:2, 211-231.
Keywords
Whitten, D. 2001
‘Mortuary mergers and the internationalization of interment’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 19, 225-234.
Whyte, M. 1988
‘Death in the People’s Republic of China’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 289-316.
Keywords
Wickersham, M. & Yehl, R. 2017
‘The public cemetery: meeting new challenges in a time of change’, Public Manager, 22:1, 62-65.
Widlok, T 1998
‘Unearthing culture: Khoisan funerals and social change’, Anthropos, 93, 115-126.
Keywords
Wiesemann, F. 1992
‘Jewish burials in Germany – between tradition, the Enlightenmen and the authorities’, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 37:1, 17-31.
Wiggins, D. 1996
‘The Burial Act of 1880, The Liberation Society and George Osborne Morgan’, Parliamentary History, 15, 2, 173-189.
Wilkinson, A. 1997
‘Changing England attitudes towards death in the two World Wars’, in P. C. Jupp and G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Keywords
Wilkinson, T. 1984
‘British cemeteries in South Asia: an aspect of social history’, Asian Affairs, 15, 1, 46-54.
Keywords
Willay, R. 2024
‘Controversial funerary art in British Empire war cemeteries’, Miranda, 29.
Williams, A., Temple, T., Pollard, S., Jones, R. & Ritz, K. 2009
‘Environmental considerations for common burial site selection after pandemic events’ in K. Ritz, K., L. Dawson, & D. Miller, D. (eds) Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics, Dordrecht: Springer, 87-101.
Keywords
Williams, H. 2011
‘Cremation and present pasts: a contemporary archaeology of Swedish memory groves’, Mortality, 16:2, 113-130.
Williams, H. 2003
Remembering and forgetting the Medieval dead’, in H. Williams (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance, Boston MA: Springer, 227-254.
