History: 19c-20c Australia

Jalland, P. 2002

Australian Ways of Death: a Social and Cultural History 1840-1918, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Muller, S. 2024

‘Representations of childness: the memorialisation of children in the Australian cemetery, 1836-2018’, Mortality, 29:3, 531-553.

Weston, D. 1989

The Sleeping City: the Story of Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney, NSW: Hale and Iremonger.

Events

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