Williams, S. & Bendelow, G. 1998

The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues, London: Routledge.

Williams, S.L. 2023

‘Death can not make our souls afraid: Mosaic Templars of America Zephroes in Macon County, Alabama, 1887-1931’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 113-148.

Wilson, A. & Levy, H. 1938

Burial Reform and Funeral Costs, Oxford University Press: London.

Wilson, F. 2004

‘Indian citizenship and the discourse of hygiene/disease in 19th century Peru’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 23: 2, 165-80.

Wilson, R. 2012

The burial of the dead: The British Army on the Western Front, 1914–18’, War & Society, 31:1, 22-41.

Winegarner, B. 2023

San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, Mount Pleasant, SC: The History Press.

Winerock, E. 2016

‘Churchyard capers: the controversial use of church space for dancing in early modern England’, in J.M. DeSilver (ed.) The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World, London: Routledge, 233-256.

Wingren, C. 2013

‘Place-making strategies in multi-cultural Swedish cemeteries: the cases of ‘Östra kyrkogården’ in Malmö and Järva common’, Mortality, 18 (2), 151-172.

Winkel, M., Siedhoff, M., & Wintzer, J. 2024

‘Shifting values at the cemetery – the artistic interventions of DeathLab’, Geographica Helvetica, 79:1, 51-59.

Winter, S. 2005

‘Zwishen Kirche und Friedhof. Der Landshaftsgarten als Bestattungs-und Erinnerungsort um 1800’ in C. Denk & J. Ziesemer (eds) Der Bürgerliche Tod: Städtische Bestattungskulture von der Aufklärung bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, ICOMOS: Munich, 46-59. , 132-143.

Wirén, J. 2023

‘Until death do us part? Swedish cemeteries from an inter-faith and no-faith perspective’, Approaching Religion, 13:1, 123-137.

Witek-Dryjańska, K. 2024

‘Cemeteries as manifestations of history in public space’, in J. Wojdon & D. Wiśniewska (eds) History in Public Space, New York: Routledge, 211-230.

Witte, E. 2003

‘The battle for monasteries, cemeteries and schools: Belgium’ in C. Clark & W. Kaiser (eds) Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 102-128.

Wojtkowiak, J. & Mathijssen, B. 2022

‘Birth and death: studying ritual, embodied practices and spirituality at the start and end of life’, Religions, 13:9, 820.

Keywords

Wolffe, J. 2000

Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Wood, W. & Williamson, J. 2003

‘Historical changes in the meaning of death in the Western tradition’, in C.D. Bryant (ed.) Handbook of Death and Dying, Thousand Oaks, CA., Sage, 14-23.

Woods, R. 2006

Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Woodthorpe, K. 2012

‘Baby gardens: a privilege or predicament’, in S. Earle, C. Komaromy & L. Layne (eds) Understanding Reproductive Loss: Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility, Aldershot: Ashgate, 143-54.

Woodthorpe, K. 2016

‘Buried bodies in an East London cemetery: revisiting taboo’, in A. Maddrell & J. Sidaway, J. (eds) Deathscapes: Spaces for Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, London: Routledge, 57-74.

Woodthorpe, K. 2011

‘Sustaining the contemporary cemetery: implementing policy alongside conflicting perspectives and purpose’, Mortality, 16:3, 259-276.

Events

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