Research Catalog

Title

Grave concerns : death and burial in England, 1700 to 1850 / edited by Margaret Cox.

Publication

York : Council for British Archaeology, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cox, Margaret, 1950-
• Council for British Archaeology

Description

xvi, 275 p. : ill., maps, plans, ports.; 30 cm.

Series Statement

CBA research report ; 113

Uniform Title

Research report (Council for British Archaeology) no. 113.

Subject

• 1700-1899
• Human remains (Archaeology) > England > Congresses
• Funeral rites and ceremonies > England > Congresses
• Burial > England > History > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Congresses
• Funeral rites and ceremonies > England > History
• Burial > England > History > 18th century
• Burial > England > History > 19th century
• Mortuary Practice > history
• England > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Chiefly papers originally presented at a conference which was held at Bournemouth University in April 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and index.

Language (note)

• Summaries in French and German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The English funeral 1700-1850 / Julian Litten -- An introductory guide to textiles from 18th and 19th century burials / Robert Janaway -- Romancing the stones: the graveyard boom of the later 18th century / Sarah Tarlow -- A new burial form and its meanings: cemetery establishment in the first half of the 19th century / Julie Rigg -- Burial on the margin: distance and discrimination in early modern London / Vanessa Harding -- Burial vaults and coffin furniture in the West Country / Eric Boore -- 'To the praise of the dead, and anatomie': the analysis of post-medieval burials at St. Nicholas, Sevenoaks, Kent / Angela Boyle & Graham Keevill -- Age at death and cause of death of the people buried in St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London / Louise Scheuer -- Eschatology, burial practice and continuity: a retrospection from Christ Church, Spitalfields / Margaret Cox.
• Quaker burial: doctrine and practice / Gwynne Stock -- The 18th and early 19th century Quaker burial ground at Bathford, Bath and North-East Somerset / Gwynne Stock -- 'In the burying place'-the excavation of a Quaker burial ground / Louise Bashford & Tony Pollard -- 'The bodies of Friends'-the osteological analysis of a Quaker burial ground / Helen Start & Lucy Kirk -- Health and safety in church and funerary archaeology / Paul Kneller -- Archaeology and smallpox / Susan E J Young -- Bodies, minds, and human remains / James Thompson -- Research priorities: an historian's perspective / Vanessa Harding -- A view from the metropolis: post-medieval burials in London / Jez Reeve -- Advances and constraints in the study of human remains: a joint perspective / Lynne S Bell & Julia A Lee-Thorp -- The excavation and study of human remains: a view from the floor / Bill White.

ISBN

1872414850

LCCN

gb^98040619^

OCLC

• 42398588
• SCSB-10377009

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library