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History: 20c England
Berridge, K. 2001
Vigor Mortis: the End of the Death Taboo, London: Profile Books.
Cannadine, D. 1981
‘War and death, grief and mourning in Modern Britain’, in J. Whaley (ed.) Mirrors of Mortality, London: Europa.
Jalland, P. 2010
Death in War and Peace: Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jupp, P.C. & Walter, T. 1999
‘The healthy society: 1918-98’, in P. Jupp & C. Gittings (eds) Death in England: An Illustrated History, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Keywords
Mellor, P. & Shilling, C. 1993
‘Modernity, self-identity and the sequestration of death’, Sociology, 27:3, 411-431.
Roberts, E. 1989
‘The Lancashire way of death’, in R. Houlbrooke (ed.) Death, Ritual and Bereavement, London: Routledge. 188-207.
Keywords
Rugg, J. 2004
‘Managing “Civilian deaths due to war operations”: Yorkshire experiences during World War II’, Twentieth Century British History, 15:2, 152-73.
Wilkinson, A. 1997
‘Changing England attitudes towards death in the two World Wars’, in P. C. Jupp and G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Macmillan: Basingstoke.
