The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 18c England
Boulton, J. 2014
‘Traffic in corpses and the commodification of burial in Georgian London’, Continuity and Change, 29: 2, 181-208.
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Fritz, P. 1994-5
‘The undertaking trade in England: its origins and early development, 1660-1830’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28:2, 241-253.
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Hartle, R. 2024
‘The Corporation of Corpse-stealers’: archaeological and historical evidence of bodysnatching in early-eighteenth-century London’, in E. Craig-Atkins & and K. Harvey (eds) The Material Body: Embodiment, History and Archaeology in Industrializing England, 1700–1880, Manchester University Press, 100-132.
Jenner, M. 2005
‘Death, decomposition and dechrisianisation? Public health and church burial in eighteenth-century England’, English Historical Review, 120: 487, 615-632.
