The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Batten, S. 2009
‘Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions’, in N. Saunders & P. Cornish (eds) Contested Objects: Material Memories of the Great War, London: Routledge, 163-177.
Camerlynck, S. 2019
‘The influence of ancient art and architecture on the architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission’, in E. Georgitsoyanni (ed) Ancient Greek Art and European Funerary Art, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 59-78.
Cox, M. Jones, P. & Loe, L. 2022
Fromelles, Naming the Dead. The Scientists’ Story, Newport NSW: Big Sky Publishing.
D’Arcy, F. 2007
Remembering the War Dead: British Commonwealth and International War Graves in Ireland since 1914, Dublin: Office of Public Works.
Edwards, S. 2018
‘An empire of memory: overseas British war cemeteries, 1918-1983’, International Journal of History and Historiography, 38, 255-286.
Fuchs, R. 2014
‘Sites of memory in the Holy Land: the design of British war cemeteries in Mandate Palestine’, Journal of Historical Geography, 30: 4, 643-664.
Grady, T. 2023
‘A dance with death: the Imperial War Graves Commission and Nazi Germany’, The English Historical Review, cead149.
Heffernan, M. 1995
‘For ever England: the Western Front and the politics of remembrance in Britain’, Ecumene, 2:3, 293-333.
Skelton, T. & Gliddon, G. 2008
Lutyens and the Great War, London: Francis Lincoln.
Stice, E. 2020
‘For kin and country: reader responses to the uniformity of British war graves in The Times & civilian practices of wartime citizenship’, First World War Studies, 11:2, 141-160.
Summers, J. 2007
Remembered: A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Merrell: Singapore.
Keywords
Tradii, L. 2019
“Their dear remains belong to us alone”: soldiers’ bodies, commemoration, and cultural responses to exhumation after the Great War’, First World War Studies, 10:2-3, 245-261.
Willay, R. 2024
‘Controversial funerary art in British Empire war cemeteries’, Miranda, 29.
