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  • From Dust to Ashes

    The Development of Cremation in England and Wales, 1874-2024

    by Brian Parsons, Peter C. Jupp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales. Cremation was promoted seriously in 1874 but the first cremation did not take place until eleven years later. The response by the public was cautious. Despite the provision of crematoria, by 1939, less than 4 percent of deaths were followed by ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • A Sociology of Spirituality

    by Peter C. Jupp ...
    Series series Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
    The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised religions have failed. This thesis is explored and disputed in this book in ways that mark important critical divisions. This is the first collection of essays to assess the significance of spirituality in the sociology of religion. The authors explore the relationship of spirituality to the visual, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Death in Scotland

    Chapters From the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First

    by Peter C. Jupp, Hilary J. Grainger ...
    Series Book 9 - Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland
    For the past twenty years, Scottish death culture has emerged as a focus of scholars drawn from a wide variety of disciplines. Death comes to us all but too often we treat it as a private or personal matter. The former taboo about death is slowly lifting and contemporary research is playing an increasing part. Accordingly, the fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Death in Modern Scotland, 1855–1955

    Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices

    Edited by Susan Buckham, Peter C. Jupp, Julie Rugg ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland
    The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians and literary figures, both before and after the Great War. At the same time, medical and legal ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

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  • Black Markers

    Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries

    by Jan-Andrew Henderson ...
    Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, modern, beautiful, haunted – they are the perfect reflection of the city’s amazing past with astonishing stories of their own. Greyfriars Graveyard alone was instrumental in the creation of Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    by Edith Hall, Henry Stead ...
    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • The Material Culture of the Jacobites

    by Neil Guthrie ...
    The Jacobites, adherents of the exiled King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his descendants, continue to command attention long after the end of realistic Jacobite hopes down to the present. Extraordinarily, the promotion of the Jacobite cause and adherence to it were recorded in a rich and highly miscellaneous store of objects, including medals, portraits, pin-cushions, glassware and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature

    Edited by Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work ... Read more

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  • Local Studies and the History of Education

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    Originally published in 1972, this book is concerned with education as part of a larger social history.Chapters include:The roots of Anglican supremacy in English educationThe Board schools of LondonThe use of ecclesiastical records for the history of educationTopographical resources: private and secondary education from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as ... Read more

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  • Who Made the Scottish Enlightenment?

    A Personal, Biographical and Analytical Enquiry

    by Colin Russell ...
    The Scottish Enlightenment is often portrayed as elitist and Edinburgh based with no universally agreed beginning or end. Additionally, the Philosophers and scholars (the great Scottish Enlightenment figures) sometimes obscure significant contributions from other disciplines so that the achievements of a wider conception of the Scottish Enlightenment are not universally known. Sir Walter Scott ... Read more

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