The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 19c-20c Finland
Kamppainen, I. 2022
Freethinkers’ cemeteries and local secular burial in Finland’, in T. Kallio-Seppä, S. Lipken, T. Väre & 2 others (eds) Unusual Deaths and Memorialisation: Burial, Space and Memory in the Post-Medieval North, New York NY, Berghahn Books, 92-111.
Kotalainen, S. 2013
‘Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed: the writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’, Mortality, 18:2, 173-194.
Lindgren, L. 2005
‘The spectacle of grief’ in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 81-87.
