The evolution of the landscape of the Old Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki: an extreme case of reusage

An interesting case study about the Old Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki in Greece that was presented at the AGM 2019. Introduction A landscape can change as radically as to be destroyed and reconstructed even more than once. Such is the case of the landscape of the...

Book: Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire

By Julie Rugg, Manchester University Press, 2013 This book explores for the first time the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts,...