Foreword
1. Introduction, Ralph Houlbrooke
2. Death, Church, and Family in England Between the Late Fifteenth and the Early Eighteenth Centuries, Ralph Houlbrooke
3. The Good Death in Seventeenth-Century England, Lucinda McCray Beier
4. Godly Grief: Individual Responses to Death in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Anne Laurence
5. Death and the Doctors in Georgian England, Roy Porter
6. The Burial Question in Leeds in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Jim Morgan
7. Why was Death so Big in Victorian Britain, Ruth Richardson
8. Ashes to Ashes: Cremation and the Celebration of Death in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Jennifer Leaney
9. The Two Faces of Death: Children’s Magazines and their Treatment of Death in the Nineteenth Century, Diana Dixon
10. Victorian Unbelief and Bereavement, Martha McMackin Garland
11. Death, Grief, and Mourning in the Upper-Class Family, 1860-1914, Pat Jalland
12. The Lancashire Way of Death, Elizabeth Roberts
Notes
Bibliography
The Contributors
Index
Biography
Ralph Houlbrooke
