My research explores societal conflict in nineteenth century Victorian cemeteries and suggests that the history of burial spaces in Australia offers postcolonial insights.

Dr Hannah Thomas is the Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent, York.

Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka is a doctor of law and an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the Faculty of Law and Economics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Her research interests include legal aspects of burial, voluntary and inflicted death, bioethics, the right to privacy, and the protection of human rights.

As an anthropologist and religious studies scholar, I am mostly interested in how diverse people experience dying, death, and spaces of disposal.