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Final Journey: The Untold Story of Funeral Trains, Cheltenham: The History Press.

White, S. 2015

The Churchyards of the Church in Wales: A Legal History, Bangor: The Welsh Legal History Society.

White, S. 2002

‘A burial ahead of its time? The Crookenden burial case and the sanctioning of cremation in England and Wales’, Mortality, 7:2, 171-190.

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‘Death in the People’s Republic of China’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 289-316.

Wickersham, M. & Yehl, R. 2017

‘The public cemetery: meeting new challenges in a time of change’, Public Manager, 22:1, 62-65.

Widlok, T 1998

‘Unearthing culture: Khoisan funerals and social change’, Anthropos, 93, 115-126.

Wiesemann, F. 1992

‘Jewish burials in Germany – between tradition, the Enlightenmen and the authorities’, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 37:1, 17-31.

Wiggins, D. 1996

‘The Burial Act of 1880, The Liberation Society and George Osborne Morgan’, Parliamentary History, 15, 2, 173-189.

Wilkinson, A. 1997

‘Changing England attitudes towards death in the two World Wars’, in P. C. Jupp and G. Howarth (eds) The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal, Macmillan: Basingstoke.

Wilkinson, T. 1984

‘British cemeteries in South Asia: an aspect of social history’, Asian Affairs, 15, 1, 46-54.

Willay, R. 2024

‘Controversial funerary art in British Empire war cemeteries’, Miranda, 29.

Williams, A., Temple, T., Pollard, S., Jones, R. & Ritz, K. 2009

‘Environmental considerations for common burial site selection after pandemic events’ in K. Ritz, K., L. Dawson, & D. Miller, D. (eds) Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics, Dordrecht: Springer, 87-101.

Williams, H. 2011

‘Cremation and present pasts: a contemporary archaeology of Swedish memory groves’, Mortality, 16:2, 113-130.

Williams, H. 2003

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Williams, H. (ed.) 2003

Archaeologies of Remembrance: Death and Memory in Past Societies, Boston MA: Springer.

Williams, H. & Sayer, D. (eds) 2009

Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages, Exeter: University of Exeter Press.

Williams, H. & Williams, E. 2020

‘Cremation and contemporary churchyards’, in S. De Nardi, H. Orange, S. High & E. Koskinen-Koivisto (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place, London: Routledge.

Williams, H. & Williams, E. 2007

‘Digging for the dead: archaeological practice as mortuary commemoration’, Public Archaeology, 6:1, 47-63.

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A Protestant Legacy: Attitudes to Death and Illness among Older Aberdonians, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Events

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