Dear List members
 
below are details of a Bath conference and call for papers which may be of interest. A booking form can be found on the CDAS web site
 http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/news/conferences/index.html
 
Best
 
Duncan
 
A Good Send Off:
Local, Regional & National Variations in how the British Dispose of their Dead
 
Saturday 19 June 2010, 9:30-17:00
at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute
 
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS
 
There are major variations in funerals, burial and cremation within Britain. Ethnic and class variations have, to some extent, been explored, but regional variations – though common knowledge among funeral professionals and folklorists – are rarely analysed rigorously or comparatively. The conference aims to analyse what is British, what is national (Scottish, English, Welsh, Irish), and what is regional or local about how the British dispose of and commemorate their dead, and why variations take the form they do. Papers are invited that examine regional and local variations in how the dead are, and were, disposed of in the UK, including funeral rites, burial, cremation and commemoration. For example:
 




 
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