The Everyday Heritage and Afterlives of Asylum Burial Grounds

Online workshop, Tuesday 27 October 2026 via Zoom.

Workshop Convenors: Alana Harris (King’s College London) and Julie Rugg (University of York)

This one-day, online workshop brings together scholars and community historians, policy makers and heritage activists who are committed to the reconceptualization of asylum burial grounds, memorialisation activism, and historical analysis of their afterlives. This international workshop includes panels relating to researching asylum burial grounds in the UK, asylum burial grounds as testimony, and aspects of heritage.

A full programme is has now been issued, and tickets are available via Eventbrite.

 

 

Events

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