Vovelle, M. & Bertrand, R. 1983

La Ville des Morts: Essai sur l’Imaginaire Urbain Contemporain d’après les Cimetières Provençaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: Paris.

Vural, L. 2019

‘Potter’s field as heterotopia: death and mourning at New York City’s edge’, Oral History, 47:2, 106-116.

Wachtel, D. 1999

‘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.

Waldorff, J. trans C. Kisiel 1982

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.

Walter, T. 1993

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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.

Walter, T. 1994

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Walvin, J. 1983

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

Wang, H. 2018

‘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.

Wanner, C. 2017

‘Quelling the “unquiet dead”: popular devisions in the borderlands of the USSR’, in S. Boret, S. Long & S. Kan (eds) Death in the Early 21st Century: Authority, Innovation and Mortuary Rites, Palgrave Macmillan, 63-84.

Warburg, M. 2023

‘Forest burials in Denmark: nature, non-religion and spirituality’, Approaching Religion, 13:1, 73-89.

Warner, W. 1959

The Living and the Dead: a Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans, Westport CT: Greenwood Press.

Watkin, D. 1996

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

Watkins, C. 2013

The Undiscovered County: Journeys Among the Dead, London: The Bodley Head.

Events

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