The book is 'well-conceived, meticulously undertaken, rich and highly nuanced' 'anyone bent on writing seriously about almost any aspect of burial ground provision in England and Wales from the 1850s onwards will ignore this book at their peril.' Stephen White, Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 10 February 2015 'Rugg has an established research reputation in ... Read moredeath studies regarding the history of ownership and management of burial space. Cemeteries, it would seem, are her passion. Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire reinforces and expands her status as one of the foremost thinkers in this area. Rugg's clear appetite for examining burial space defines the book. She engages the reader with a topic that might initially appear dry but is actually ripe with 'the strength of the passions evoked by the issue of burial' (p. xi) on the local and national stage.' Ruth Penfold-Mounce, Department of Sociology, University of York, Mortality
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