Researching Death, Mourning and Commemoration in Modern Scotland

Review of periodical literature published in 2005

“…The authors examine only two communities, and—in a familiar theme of poor law history—emphasize that further research at a local level is required. McFarland proposes a specifically Scottish agenda for the study of death in history, focusing on the nineteenth century, which saw the development of a ‘funeral industry’ and the emergence of professional undertaking. Aspects of the commemoration of victims of the First World War are discussed in a comparative article on England and Germany by Porter, and by Hughes, who examines the death and commemoration of one female victim, Edith Cavell, in Britain.…”