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Churchyard and Cemetery - Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire (Hardcover)
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Churchyard and Cemetery - Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire (Hardcover)
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This book explores for the first time the turbulent social history
of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites
from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings
of the Burial Acts, and discloses the ways in which religious
politics framed burial management. It presents an alternative
history of burial which questions notions of tradition and
modernity, and challenges long-standing assumptions about changing
attitudes towards mortality in England. This study diverges from
the long-standing tendency to regard the churchyard as inherently
'traditional' and the cemetery as essentially 'modern'. Since 1850,
both types of site have been subject to the influence of new
expectations that burial space would guarantee family burial and
the opportunity for formal commemoration. Although the population
in central North Yorkshire declined, demand for burial space rose,
meaning that many dozens of churchyards were extended, and forty
new cemeteries were laid out. This text is accessible to
undergraduates and postgraduates, and will comprise an essential
resource book for historians, archaeologists and local government
officials.
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