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Selected bibliography

The following represents a selected list of major texts on cemeteries and burial in a range of disciplines. The list is by no means exhaustive. Markers, the annual publication of the American Gravestone Association, has been featuring an annual bibliography of scholarship on gravemarkers and cemeteries since 1995 and is a useful reference tool.

Alington, M. (1978) Unquiet Earth: a History of the Bolton Street Cemetery , Wellington : Ministry of Works and Development. ( Brook Street Cemetery , Wellington , NZ).

Barnard, S. (1990) To Prove I’m Not Forgot, Manchester : Manchester University Press.

Bassett, S. (1992) (ed.) Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600, Leicester: Leicester University Press.

Bodel, J. (2000) ‘Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter’s fields in ancient Rome ’, in V. Hope and E. Marshall (eds) Death and Disease in the Ancient City, London : Routledge.

Borg, A. (1991) War Memorials, London : Leo Cooper.

Bourke, J. (1996) Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain and the Great War , London : Reaktion Books.

Bradbury, M. (2001) ‘Forget me not: memorialization in cemeteries and crematoria’ in J. Hockey, J. Katz and N. Small (eds) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Brooks, C., Elliot, B., Litten, J., Robinson, E., Robinson, R. and Temple , P. (1989) Mortal Remains, Wheaton : Exeter .

Buckham, S. (1999) ‘The men that worked for England they have their graves at home’: consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones, in S. Tarlow and S. West (ed.) The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain , London : Routledge. pp199-214.

Cannadine, D. (1981) ‘War and death, grief and mourning in Modern Britain’, in J. Whaley (ed.) Mirrors of Mortality, London : Europa.

Colvin, H. (1991) Architecture and the Afterlife, New Haven : Yale University Press.

Constant, C. (1994) The Woodland Cemetery : Towards a Spiritual Landscape , Stockholm : Byggförlaget.

Cox, M. (ed.) (1998) Grave Concerns: Death and Burial in England , 1700-1850 , York : CBA.

Curl, J. S. (1993) A Celebration of Death, London : Batsford.

Curl, J. S. (2001) Kensal Green Cemetery: the Origins and Development of the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London, 1824-2001, London: Phillimore.

Czerner, O. and I. Juszkiewicz (eds) Cemetery Art, ICOMOS: Wrocaw.

Dakin, A. (2003) Conservation of Historic Graveyards, Conference Proceedings, Edinburgh : Historic Scotland .

Daniell, C. (1998) Death and Burial in Medieval England 1066-1550 , London : Routledge.

Davies, D. (1997) Death, Ritual and Belief: the Rhetoric of Funerary Rites, Washington , DC : Cassell.

Davies, D. (2005) A Brief History of Death, Oxford : Blackwell Publishing.

Davies, D. and Mates, L. H. (2005) Encyclopedia of Cremation, Aldershot : Ashgate.

Davies, D. and Shaw, A. (1995) Reusing Old Graves : a Report on Popular British Attitudes , Crayford: Shaw and Sons.

Davies, D. J. (1991) Cremation Today and Tomorrow, Nottingham : Alcuin/Grow Books.

Davies, J. (1993) ‘War memorials’ in Clark , D. (ed.) The Sociology of Death, Oxford : Blackwell.

Davies, J. (1999) Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, London : Routledge.

De Pina-Cabral, J. and R. Feijó (1983) ‘Conflicting attitudes to death in modern Portugal : the question of cemeteries’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 14, 1, pp17-43.

Dethlefsen, E. S. (1981) ‘The cemetery and culture change: archaeological focus and ethnographic perspective’, in R. A. Gould and M. B. Schiffer (Eds) Modern Material Culture: The Archaeology of Us, New York , NY : Academic Press, pp. 137-159.

Dingwall, C. and White, L. (2002) ‘Garden cemeteries in Scotland ’, Garden History Society News, 64, pp7-9.

Drakeford , M. (1997) Funerals, Poverty and Social Exclusion, Cardiff : National Local Government Against Poverty in Wales .

Etlin, R. (1984) The Architecture of Death, Cambridge , MA : MIT. ( France )

Etlin, R. (1994) Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and its Legacy, Chicago , Ill : University of Chicago Press.

Farrell, J. (1980) Inventing the American Way of Death 1830-1920, Philadelphia : Temple University Press.

Finch, J. (1991) ‘“According to the qualitie and degree of the person deceased”: funerary monuments and the construction of social identities 1400-1750', Scottish Archaeological Review, 8, pp105-14.

Finer, S. E. (1952) The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick, London : Methuen .

Fischer, N. (2001) Geschichte des Todes in der Neuzeit, (History of death in modern times) Erfurt: Sutton.

Fischer, N. and M. Herzog (eds) (2005) Nekropolis: Der Friedhof als Ort der Toten under der Lebenden, (The Cemetery as a place of the dead and the living) Stuttgart : Kohlhammer.

Foucault, M. (1986) ‘Of other spaces’, Diacritics, Spring.

Francaviglia, R. (1971) ‘The cemetery as an evolving cultural landscape’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 61, 3, pp501-9.

Francis, D., L. Kellaher and G. Neophytou (2003) The Secret Cemetery , Oxford : Berg.

Gibson, E. and Ward, G. K. (1995) Courage Remembered, London : HMSO.

Goode, P. and B. Elliott (1986) ‘Cemeteries’, in Jellicoe, G., Jellicoe, S., Goode, P. and Lancaster , M. (eds) Oxford Companion to Gardens , Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Goody, J. and Poppi, C. (1994) ‘Flowers and bones: approaches to the dead in Anglo-American and Italian cemeteries’, Journal of Contemporary Studies of Society and History, 36, 1, pp146-75. (General)

Gordon, B and Marshall, P. (2000) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Grainger, H. (2005) Death Redesigned: British Crematoria: History, Architecture and Landscape, Reading : Spire Books.

Green, L. S. (2003) ‘Landscapes of consolation: cemeteries and crematoria in Essex , mid 19 th to the 21 st centuries’, unpublished MA dissertation, Architectural Association.

Hallam, E. and Hockey, J. (2001) Death, Memory and Material Culture, Oxford : Berg.

Hallam, E., Hockey, J. and Howarth, G. (1999) Beyond the Body, Routledge: London .

Halsall, G. (1995) Early Medieval Cemeteries, Glasgow : Cruithne Press.

Harding, V. (2002) The Dead and the Living in Paris and London , 1500-1670 , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Heathcote, E. (1999) Monument Builders: Modern Architecture and Death, Chichester : Academy Editions.

Hockey, J. (2001) ‘Changing death rituals’, in J. Hockey, J. Katz and N. Small (eds) Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Huntingdon, R. and Metcalf, P. (1991) Celebrations of Death: the Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Jalland, P. ( 2002) Australian Ways of Death: a Social and Cultural History 1840-1918 , Oxford : Oxford University Press.

James, D. (1991) Undercliffe: Bradford’s Historic Victorian Cemetery, Halifax: Ryeburn Publishing. ( Undercliffe Cemetery , Bradford ).

Jonker, G. (1997) ‘Death, gender and memory: remembering loss and burial as a migrant’, in D. Field, J. Hockey and N. Small (eds) Death, Gender and Ethnicity, London : Routledge.

Jordan , T. G. (1982) Texas Graveyards: a Cultural Legacy , Austin , Tx : University of Texas Press.

Joyce, P. (1984) A Guide to Abney Park Cemetery , London : Save Abney Park Publication. ( Abney Park Cemetery , London ).

Jupp, P. C. (2006) From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death , Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.

Kadish, S. (2005) ‘Bet hayim “House of Life”: an introduction to Jewish funerary art and architecture in Britain ’, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 49, pp31-58.

Kath, L. (1994) Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks: A Place for the Living , Glendale , California : Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks. (Forest Lawn Memorial Parks at Glendale , California ).

Kelly, G. (1986) Mortal Politics in Eighteenth Century France , University of Waterloo Press: Waterloo , Canada .

Kenna, M. E. (1991) ‘The power of the dead: changes in the construction and care of graves and family vaults on a small Greek island’, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 1, pp101-19.

Kiest (1993) ‘Czech cemeteries in Nebraska from 1868: cultural imprints on the prairie’ in R. E. Meyer (ed.) Ethnicity and the American Cemetery, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.

Koslofsky, C. (2000) The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany , 1450-1700, Basingstoke : Macmillan.

Krull, A. (1975) New England Cemeteries: A Collector’s Guide, Brattleboro , VT : The Stephen Greene Press.

Kselman, T. (1988) ‘Funeral conflicts in nineteenth century France ’, Comparitive Studies in Society and History, 30, pp312-332.

Kselman, T. (1993) Death and the Afterlife in Modern France, Princetown , NJ : Princetown University Press.

Laderman, G. (1996), The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes towards Death 1789-1883, New Haven : South Connecticut : Yale University Press.

Langtry, J. and Carter, N. (eds) (1997) Mount Jerome: a Victorian Cemetery, Dublin Staybro: Mount Jerome History Project.

Laqueur, T. (1983) ‘Bodies, death and pauper funerals’, Representations, 1, pp109-31.

Laqueur, T. (2002) ‘The places of the dead’, in C. Jones and D. Wahrman (eds) The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France , 1750-1820 , Berkeley : University of California Press .

Laqueur, T. W. (1994) ‘Memory and naming in the Great War’, in J. R. Gillis (ed) Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity, Princeton : Princeton University Press.

Leaney, J. (1989) ‘Ashes to ashes: cremation and the celebration of death in nineteenth-century Britain ’, in R. Houlbrooke (ed.) Death, Ritual and Bereavement, London : Routledge.

Lewis, R. A. (1952) Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement, London : Longman, Green and Company.

Linden-Ward, B. (1989) Silent Cemetery on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery, Columbus : Ohio State University Press.

Llewellyn, N. (1991) The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c1500-1800, London : Reaktion Books.

Lloyd, D. (1998) Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage and Commemoration of the Great War in Britain , Australia and Canada , Oxford : Berg.

Matthews, S. (2004) Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves , Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century , Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Mayo, J. (1988) ‘War memorials as political memory’, Geographical Review, 78, 1, pp62-75.

McManners, J. (1981) ‘Death and the French historians’, in J. Whaley (ed.) Mirrors of Mortality, London : Europa.

McManners, J. (1981) Death and the Enlightenment, Oxford : Oxford University Press. ( France )

Meller, H. (1981) London Cemeteries : an Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer , London : Scholar Press. ( London cemeteries)

Merridale, C. (2000) Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia , London : Granta. ( Russia )

Meyer, R. E. (ed.) (1992) Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture, Logan , Utah : Utah State University Press.

Meyer, R. E. (ed.) (1993) Ethnicity and the American Cemetery , Bowling Green , OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press.

Morgan, J. (1989) ‘The burial question in Leeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ in R. Houlbrooke (ed.) Death, Ritual and Bereavement, London: Routledge.

Morley, J. (1971) Death, Heaven and the Victorians, London : University of Pittsburgh Press.

Mosse, G. (1990) Fallen Soliders: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars, Oxford University Press: Oxford .

Murray, H. (1991) This Garden of Death : the History of the York Cemetery , York : Friends of York Cemetery . ( York Cemetery ).

Murray, L. (2001) ‘Cemeteries in nineteenth-century New South Wales : landscapes of memory and identity’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Sydney .

Mytum, H. (2004) Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period , New York : Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers.

Nicol, R. (1994) At the End of the Road: Government, Society and the Disposal of Human Remains in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, St Leonards NSW: Allen and Unwin. ( Australia ).

Nylander, C. (1989) ‘The Protestant Cemetery in Rome : the project and its background’, in (eds) A. M. Ippolito and P. Vian, The Protestant Cemetery in Rome : the ‘Parte Antica’, Rome : Unione Internazionale Degli Insituti di Archeologia Storia e Storia dell’arte in Roma. ( Protestant Cemetery in Rome , Italy ).

O’Shea, S. (2000) Death and Design in Victorian Glasnevin, Dublin : Dublin Cemeteries Committee. ( Glasnevin Cemetery , Dublin ).

Obelkevich, J. (1976) Religion and Rural Society: South Lindsey 1825-75, Oxford : Clarendon.

Pearson, M. P. (1982) ‘Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethno-archaeological study’ in I. Hodder (ed.) Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Pearson, M. P. (1999) The Archaeology of Death and Burial, Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd.

Pickles, J. D. (1993) The Victorian Cemetery : an Illustrated Exhibition , Cambridge : Cambridge University Library.

Prior, L. (1989) The Social Organisation of Death, Basingstoke : Macmillan.

Prothero, S. (2001) Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America , Berkeley , University of California Press.

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Rawnsley, S. and Reynolds, J. (1977) ‘ Undercliffe Cemetery , Bradford ’, History Workshop, 4, pp215-21. ( Undercliffe Cemetery , Bradford ).

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Reimers, E. (1999) ‘Death and identity: graves and funerals as cultural communication’, Mortality, 4, 2, pp147-66.

Richardson , R. (1987) Death, Dissection and the Destitute, London : Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Robin, R. (1995) ‘ “A foothold in Europe ”: the aesthetics and politics of American war cemeteries in Western Europe ’, Journal of American Studies, 29, pp55-72.

Rotundo, B. (1984) ‘ Mount Auburn : a fortunate co-incidence and an ideal solution’, Journal of Garden History, 4, 3 pp255-67. ( Mount Auburn Cemetery , Boston , MA ).

Schulz, F. (2005) ‘Disposing of the dead in East Germany, 1945-1990', in P. Betts, A. Confino and D. Schumann (eds) Death in Germany, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Schyler, D. (1984) ‘The evolution of the Anglo-american rural cemetery: landscape architecture as social and cultural history’, Journal of Garden History, 4, 3, pp291-304.

Scott, R. (2005) Death by Design: The True Story of the Glasgow Necropolis , Edinburgh : Black and White Publishing.

Sloane, D. C. (1995) The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History, Baltimore , MD : John Hopkins University Press.

Stamp, G. (1977) Silent Cities: an Exhibition of the Memorials and Cemetery Architecture of the Great War, London : RIBA.

Stannard, D. E. (1977) The Puritan Way of Death: a Study in Religion, Culture and Social Change , Oxford : Oxford University Press.

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Tyson, N. (1993) ‘ Candie Cemetery and its monuments: death and self-presentation in 19th century St Peter Port, Guernsey ’, Societé Guernestaine Report and Transactions, 23, 3, pp599-626.

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Verdery, K. (1999) The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change, Chichester : Columbia University Press.

Wade-Matthews, M. (1992) Grave Matters: a Walk Through Welford Road Cemetery , Leicester , Loughborough: Heart of Albion Press. ( Welford Road Cemetery , Leicester ).

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Worpole, K. (2004) Last landscapes: the architecture of the cemetery in the West, London : Reaktion Books.

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