History: 19c England

Jupp, P.C. 1997

‘Enon Chapel: no way for the dead’ in P.C. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 90-104.

Laqueur, T. 1993

‘Cemeteries, religion and the culture of capitalism’, in J. Garnett & C.Matthew (eds) Revival and Religion since 1700, London: Hambleton Press, 183-200.

Laqueur, T. 1983

‘Bodies, death and pauper funerals’, Representations, 1, 109-31.

Lewis, R. 1952

Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement, London: Longman, Green and Company.

Malchow, H. 1985

‘Public gardens and social action in Late Victorian Britain’, Victorian Studies, 29:1, 97-124.

Manning, B. 1952

The Protestant Dissenting Deputies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morgan, J. 1989

‘The burial question in Leeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ in R. Houlbrooke (ed.) Death, Ritual and Bereavement, London: Routledge, 95-104.

Morley, J. 1971

Death, Heaven and the Victorians, London: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Nash, G. 2000

‘Pomp and circumstances: archaeology, modernity and the corporatisation of death: early social and political Victorian attitudes towards burial practice’, in P. Graves-Brown (ed.) Matter, Materiality and Culture, London: Routledge, 124-142.

Parsons, B. 2018

‘Robertson at the City: portrait of a cemetery superintendent’, Genealogy, 2, 31.

Pearsall, C. 1999

‘Burying the Duke: Victorian mourning and the funeral of the Duke of Wellington’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 27, 365-93.

Penny, N. 1974

‘The commercial garden necropolis of the early nineteenth century and its critics’, Garden History, 2, 61-76.

Pickles, J. 1993

The Victorian Cemetery: an Illustrated Exhibition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Library.

Pinfold, J. 1997

‘The Green Ground’ in P. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 76-89.

Rawnsley, S. & Reynolds, J. 1977

Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford’, History Workshop, 4, 215-221.

Richardson, R. 1993

‘The Life, Death, Burial and Resurrection Company: UK metropolitan burial, 1800-1900’, in J. Barberán (ed.) Una Arquitectura para la Muerta, Seville: Consejeria de Obras Publicas y Transportes, 577-583.

Richardson, R. 1989

‘Why was death so big in Victorian England?’, in R. Houlbrooke (ed.) Death, Ritual and Bereavement, London: Routledge, 105-117.

Richardson, R. 1987

Death, Dissection and the Destitute, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Roberts, B. 2016

‘A tale of two funerals: civic ritual, public mourning and community participation in late nineteenth-century Middlesbrough’, Cultural and Social History, 13:4, 467-482.

Rugg, J. 1998

‘The emergence of a new burial form: cemetery development in the first half of the nineteenth century’ in M.Cox (ed.) Grave Matters: a History of Burial 1700-1850, York: Council for British Archaeology.

Events

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