Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire by Julie Rugg

Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire

Julie Rugg

444 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history
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The 1853 Burial Act introduced changes that would affect every English town and village outside London. New cemeteries looked set to replace the centuries-old churchyard, removing the dead from the heart of the community, and burial became a scien...

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