The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Memorials: Mortality
Fernández, E. 2011
‘Euphemistic conceptual metaphors in epitaphs from Highgate Cemetery’, Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, 9:1, 198-225.
Hijiya, J. 1983
‘American gravestones and attitudes towards death’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 127:5, 339-363.
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Mallios, S. & Caterino, D. 2007
‘Transformations in San Diego County gravestones and cemeteries’, Historical Archaeology, 41:4, 50-71.
Tarlow, S. 1995
‘What dreams may come: metaphors of death in Orkney’, Scotland Archaeological Review, 9-10, 110-114.
Tarlow, S. 1999
Wormie clay and blessed sleep: death and disgust in later historic Britain’, in S. Tarlow & S. West (eds) The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain, London: Routledge, 183-198.
Vanderstaeten, R. 2014
‘Burying and remembering the dead’, Memory Studies, 7:4, 457-471.
