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‘Jewish burial societies: The origins and development of the Hevra Kaddisha’, Jurist, 59, 214-228.

Wade, B. 2023

‘Death in the time of cholera: pandemics, public health, and burial in 19th-century Havana’, Mortality 27:4, 395-409.

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The Rest is Silence: the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Warsaw: Interpress Publishers.

Walls, S. 2011

‘“Lest we forget”: the spatial dynamics of church and churchyard as commemorative spaces for the war dead in the twentieth century’, Mortality, 16:2, 131-144.

Walsh, R. 2013

‘Takamore v Clarke: a missed opportunity to recognise tikanga Maori’, Auckland University Law Review, 19, 246-251.

Walter, T. 1991

‘Modern death: taboo or not taboo?’ Sociology, 25, 2, 293-310.

Walter, T. 1994

The Revival of Death, London: Routledge.

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Walter, T. 2005

Three ways to arrange a funeral: mortuary variation in the modern west’, Mortality, 10:3, 173-192.

Walter, T. 2013

‘Eighteen ways to view a dead body’ in E. Venbrux, T. Quartier, C. Venhost and B. Mathijssen (eds) Changing European Deathways, Wien: Lit Verlag, 71-84.

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‘Dust to dust: celebrations of death in Victorian England’, Historical Reflections, Spring, 353-71.

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‘Exhuming the city: the politics and poetics of graveyard clearance’, in G. Moore & M. Smith (eds) Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture, London: Palgrave, 115-134.

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‘Monuments and mausolea in the Age of Enlightenment’, in G. Waterfield (ed.) Soane and Death, London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 9-25.

Watkins, C. 2013

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Watkins, M. 2002

‘The cemetery and cultural memory: Montreal, 1860-1900’, Urban History Review/Revue d’Histoire Urbaine, 31:1, 52-62.

Watson, J. 1988

‘Funeral specialists in Chinese society: pollution, performance and social hierarchy’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 109-134.

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Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press.

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Death is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Events

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