Burial ground: Institutional England

Farrow, T. 2024

‘Death, burial and commemoration in 19th- and early 20th-century British ‘lunatic asylum’ and ‘mental hospital’ cemeteries, European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 1, 1-39. DOI

Loe, L., Webb, H., Simmons, A. & Poore, D. 2011

The Patients’ Story: Dr Radcliffe’s Legacy in the Age of Hospitals – Excavations at the 18th-19th century Radcliffe Infirmary Burial Ground, Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Michael, P. & Hirst, D. 2011

‘Recording the many faces of death at the Denbigh Asylum, 1848-1938’, History of Psychiatry, 23:1, 40-51.

Events

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