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
Rugg, J. 1999
‘Nonconformity and the development of early cemeteries in England, 1820-1850′, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, 6, 5, 309-21.
Rugg, J. 2000
‘Ownership of the place of burial: a study of early nineteenth-century urban conflict in Britain’, in R. Morris and R. Trainor (eds) Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond since 1750, Aldershot: Ashgate, 211-225.
Rugg, J. 2019
‘Secularity and burial space in 19th century England’, Revista Murciana de Antropología, 26, 33-54.
Rugg, J. 1997
‘The origins and progress of cemetery establishment in Britain’, in P. C. Jupp & G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 105-119.
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Rugg, J. 2005
‘Outside the edict: the chaotic nature of burial culture in the United Kingdom’, in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer, (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 11-16.
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Rugg, J. 2013
‘Constructing the grave: competing burial ideals in nineteenth-century England’, Social History, 38:3, 328-46.
Rugg, J. 2014
‘The Burial Laws Amendment Act of 1880 and strategies of evasion in rural North Yorkshire’, Northern History, 51: 1, 113-30.
Rugg, J. 2019
‘Burial reform in England: a reappraisal’, Histoire, Médecine, Santé, 16 (Hiver): 79-95.
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Rugg, J., Stirling, F. & Clayden, A. 2013
‘Churchyard and cemetery in an England industrial city: Sheffield, 1740-1900’, Urban History, 41:4, 627-646.
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Scholz, M. 2017
‘Over our dead bodies’: the fight over cemetery construction in nineteenth-century London’, Journal of Urban History, 43: 3, 445-457.
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Sowerby, S. 2021
‘Victorian gardens of death’, in C. Bloom (ed.) Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 467-508.
Strange, J-M. 2005
Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Strange, J-M. 2002
“She cried a very little”: death, grief and mourning in working-class culture’, Social History, 27, 2, 143-161.
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Thorsheim, P. 2011
‘The corpse in the garden: burial, health and the environment in nineteenth-century London’, Environmental History, 16:1, 1-31.
Walvin, J. 1983
‘Dust to dust: celebrations of death in Victorian England’, Historical Reflections, Spring, 353-71.
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Wheatley, N. 2020
Final Journey: The Untold Story of Funeral Trains, Cheltenham: The History Press.
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Wiggins, D. 1996
‘The Burial Act of 1880, The Liberation Society and George Osborne Morgan’, Parliamentary History, 15, 2, 173-189.
