History: Broad sweep England

Barry, J. 2018

‘The organisation of burial places in post-medieval England cities: Bristol and Exeter c. 1540-1850, Urban History, 46:4, 597-616.

Dymond, D. 1999

‘God’s disputed acre: charting the secular uses of the England churchyard across the centuries’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50:3, 464-497.

Houlbrooke, R. 1998

Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Jupp, P. C. & Gittings, C. 1999

Death in England: An Illustrated History, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

King, S. 2022

‘Introduction: death, memory and commemoration in the English Midlands, 1600-1900’, Midland History, 47:3, 223-231.

Litten, J. 1992

The English Way of Death, London: Robert Hale.

Llewellyn, N. 1991

The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the England Death Ritual c1500-1800, London: Reaktion Books.

Llewellyn, N. 1991

The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c1500-1800, London: Reaktion Books.

Rugg, J. 2022

‘The industrial archaeology of the burial landscape’, in E. Conlin Casella, M. Nevell and H. Steyne (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 544-558

Snell, K. 2012

‘Churchyard closures, rural cemeteries and the village community in Leicestershire and Rutland, 1800-2010’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 63: 4, 721-757.

Events

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