The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
History: 19c England
Arnold, A. & Bidmead, J. 2008
‘Going “to paradise by way of Kensal Green”: a most unfit subject for trading profit?’ Business History, 50:3, 328-350.
Brooks, C. 1989
‘Burying Tom Sayers: heroism, class and the Victorian cemetery’, Victorian Society Annual, 4-20.
Keywords
Brooks, C., Elliot, B., Litten, J., Robinson, E., Robinson, R. & Temple, P. 1989
Mortal Remains, Wheaton: Exeter.
Brown, T. 2013
‘The making of urban ‘healtheries’: the transformation of cemeteries and burial grounds in late-Victorian East London’, Journal of Historical Geography, 4:2, 12-23.
Buckham, S. 2005
‘Delusions of grandeur? The influence of company management, civic pride and private sentiment upon the cemetery landscape at York’ in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 114-52.
Byron, C. 2022
‘Governing and securing the territorial volumes of burial: transformations in the political economy and domestic geopolitics of death’, Territory, Politics, Governance, 12:1, 31-49.
Keywords
Chadwick, O. 1987
The Victorian Church Part 2: 1860-1901, London: SCMP.
Cox, M. 1998
‘Eschatology, burial practice and continuity: a retrospection from Christ Church, Spitalfields’, in M. Cox (ed.) Grave Concerns: Death and Burial in England, 1700-1850, York: Council for British Archaeology, 112-125.
Keywords
Doherty, R. 2018
‘“Blest” or “t’othered”: alternative graveyards in Bleak House, Reynolds and Walker’, Victoriographies, 18:3, 267-289.
Ekelund, R. & Ford, G. 1997
‘Nineteenth century urban market failure? Chadwick on funeral industry regulation’, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 12, 27-51.
Fletcher, R. 1974
The Akenham Burial Case, London: Wildwood House
Fraser, D. 1970
‘The Leeds churchwardens 1828-50′, Publication of the Thoresby Society, 53, 1-22.
Hallam, E. 2010
‘Articulating bones: an epilogue’, Journal of Material Culture, 15: 465-492.
Herman, A. 2010
‘Death has a touch of class: society and space in Brookwood Cemetery, 1853-1903’, Journal of Historical Geography, 36:3, 405-422.
Hotz, M. 2001
‘Down among the dead: Edwin Chadwick’s burial discourse in mid-nineteenth century England’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 29:1, 21-38.
Keywords
Hotz, M. 2009
Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Hurren, E. & King, S. 2005
“Begging for a burial”: form, function and conflict in nineteenth-century pauper burial’, Social History, 30, 3, 321-341.
Jeffers, A. 2020
The politics of death: death and politics in Victorian England’, in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present, ebooks, Nomos, 78-87.
