The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Biographical recovery: Commuity
Davey Smith, G., Carroll, D., Rankin, S. & Rowan, D. 1992
‘Socioeconomic differentials in mortality: evidence from Glasgow graveyards’, British Medical Journal, 305: 6868, 1554-1557.
Foster, G. & Hummel, R. 1995
‘The Adkins-Woodson Cemetery: a sociological examination of cemeteries as communities’, Markers, 11, 93-117.
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Foster, G., Hummel, R. & Adamchak, D. 1998
‘Patterns of conception, natality and mortality from Midwestern cemeteries: a sociological analysis of historical data’, Socoiological Quarterly, 39:3, 473-489.
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Heilen, M. (ed.) 2012
Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis: Community-sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historic Cemeteries, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
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Kang-Auger, S, Kang-Auger, M., Kang-Auger, G. & 2 others 2021
‘Tombstone size and life expectancy: a cross-sectional analysis of cemetery data before the turn of the century’, European Journal of Epidemiology, 36:12, 1219-1223.
Muller, S., Burke, H., De Leiuen, C. & 2 others 2019
‘“Childness”’: an alternative approach to the archaeology of childhood through cemetery studies’, Religions, 10: 8, 451.
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Stricklin, D. 2015
‘Bringing the dead back to live: reconstructing cemetery burial registers’, in D. Dumitran & M. Rotor (eds) Places of Memory: Cemeteries and Funeral Practices throughout the Time, Alba Iulia: Annalis Universitatis Apulensis, 215-234.
University of Leicester Graveyards Group 1 2012
‘Frail memories: is the commemorated population representative of the buried population?’ Post-Medieval Archaeology, 46:1, 166-195.
