The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Memorials: Iconography
Gustavsson, A. 2014
Grave Memorials as Cultural Heritage in Western Sweden with a Focus on the 1800s. A Study of Materials, Society, Inscribed Texts and Symbols, Oslo: Novus Forlag.
Gustavsson, A. 2003
‘Gravestones in Norway and Sweden considered in their symbolic perspective: cultural differences between the two countries during the 1990s’, Arv: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore, 59, 57-99
Hamsher, A. 2006
‘Pictorial headstones: business, culture and the expression of individuality in the contemporary cemetery’, Markers, 13, 7-35.
Keywords
Hayward, S. 2019
‘Colonial expressions of identity in funerals, cemeteries and funerary monuments of nineteenth-century Perth, Western Australia’, Genealogy, 2:3,
Hickman, D. 2001
‘Wise and religious epitaphs: funerary inscriptions as evidence for religious change in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, c1500-1640’, Midlands History, 26, 107-127.
Hobbs, J. 2006
‘A woman clinging to the cross: towards a rhetoric of tombstones’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 39:1, 55-74.
Jeffers, A. 2020
Animal, vegetable or mineral? performativity of living images in Highgate Cemetery’ in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present, ebooks, Nomos, 329-348.
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Kellaher, L., Hockey, J. & Prendergast, D. 2010
‘Wandering lines and cul-de-sacs: trajectories of ashes in the United Kingdom, in Hockey, J., Komaromy, C. & Woodthorpe, K. (eds) The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 133-147.
Linden-Ward, B. 1990
‘“The fencing mania”: the rise and fall of nineteenth-century funerary enclosures’, Markers 7, 34-58.
Little, B., Lanphear, K. & Owsley, D. 1992
‘Mortuary display and status in a nineteenth-century Anglo-American cemetery in Manassas, Virginia’, American Antiquity, 57, 3, 397-418.
Mallios, S. & Caterino, D. 2007
‘Transformations in San Diego County gravestones and cemeteries’, Historical Archaeology, 41:4, 50-71.
Mayer Gradwohl, D. 2004
‘Judah Monis’s puzzling gravestone as a reflection of his enigmatic identity’, Markers 21, 66-97.
Meyer, R. 1996
‘Gravemarkers’ in J. Brunvand (ed.) American Folklore: an Encyclopedia, New York NY: Garland Publishing Inc., 340-42.
Morgan, K.N. 1984
‘The emergence of the American landscape professional: John Notman an the design of rural cemeteries’, Journal of Garden History, 4:3, 269-289.
Mytum, H. 1994
‘Language as symbol in churchyard monuments: the use of Welsh in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Pembrokeshire’, World Archaeology, 26:2, 252-267.
Nijssen, J. & Nyssen, N. 2011
‘Pre-industrial headstones across the continental North Sea Plain’, Journal of Historical Geography, 37: 237-87.
Nosonovsky, M. 2009
‘Folk beliefs, mystic and superstitions in Ashkenazi and Karaite tombstone inscriptions from Ukraine’, Markers, 26, 120-147.
Paraskevas, C. 2006
‘The geography of the cemetery: a sociolinguistic approach’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 39:1, 143-168.
Reiffenstein, T. & Selig, N. 2013
‘Shifting monument production chains and the implications for gravestone design on Prince Edward Island, 1820-2005’, Journal of Cultural Geography, 30:2, 160-186.
