From Dust to Ashes. Cremation and the British way of death
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- Author(s) Jupp, Peter C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 232pp; illus
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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A series of scholarly essays dealing with the promotion of cremation in Britain in the 1880s and its subsequent growth to become the most common form of funeral arrangement in Britain. No coverage of commercial issues but provides useful background to a large industry