Julie RuggChurchyard and cemetery
Tradition and modernity in rural North Yorkshire
Introduction PART ONE 1. Burial in 1850: national and local contexts 2. 'Dr
Hoffman was good enough to consult me': churchyard closures 3. 'A very
modern act': the Churchyard Consecration Act and churchyard extension 4.
'It was entirely a question for the parishioners': burial board management
5. 'No differences are so deep as those which arise over the grave': the
religious politics of burial 6. 'Casting into the great crucible of the
present ferment all manner of time-honoured traditions': new legislative
contexts for twentieth-century burial PART TWO 7. 'It was a task which he
would be greatly pleased to hand over to some other person or persons':
centralisation and cemeteries, 1894-1974 8. 'Being desirous of avoiding a
burial board': the churchyard as cemetery 9. 'Unobservable or inconspicuous
to the casual visitor'?: the changing churchyard landscape 10. 'Thoroughly
untidy': changing burial culture, 1850-2007 Appendices Bibliography Index
