BURIAL RECORDS
CEMETERIES AND GRAVEYARDS
A GUIDE FOR FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORIANS IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Celia Heritage
Pen & Sword, 248 pages, £15.99
Celia Heritage tackles this far-reaching subject with both rigour and pragmatism. The occasional contributor (see page 27) begins with an overview of death and burial from as far back as 10,000 years ago, which helps to place our more recent practices in context. For example, the Romans buried their dead outside settlements, but from Anglo-Saxon times the church
