Death in Modern Scotland, 1855–1955

Susan Buckham is an Honorary Research Fellow in History and Politics at the University of Stirling. Drawing on twenty years of experience in graveyard recording, conservation, research and interpretation, Susan specialises in the interdisciplinary study of Scottish burial sites of the post-Reformation period.Peter C. Jupp is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity, Edinburgh University and former Chair of the Cremation Society of Great Britain. Co-founder of the journal Mortality and the International Conference on Death, Dying and Disposal, he has co-edited several books in death studies including Death Our Future (2008). He is the author of From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death (2006) and co-author of Cremation in Modern Scotland (2016). Julie Rugg is Senior Research Fellow at the University of York. Her principal research interest is in the meanings attached to the places of interment. She is the author of Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire (2013), which charts the implementation of the Burial Acts in England.

• Contents: Elaine McFarland: Introduction – Elizabeth Cumming: Phoebe Anna Traquair: Angels and Changing Concepts of the Supernatural in fin-de-siècle Scotland – Juliette MacDonald: Death, Mourning and Memory: Two Apocalypse Windows by Douglas Strachan – Terri Sabatos: ‘The Glen of Gloom’: The Massacre of Glencoe in Victorian Visual Culture – Alastair Fowler: Stevenson and Doyle in the Face of Death – Ronald D.S. Jack: ‘To Die Will be an Awfully Big Adventure’: Death and J.M. Barrie – Owen Dudley Edwards: John Buchan’s Fortieth Step – Alice Reid/Eilidh Garrett/Lee Williamson/Chris Dibben: A Century of Deaths, Scotland 1855-1955: A View from the Civil Registers – Stephen White: The Legal Status of Corpses and Cremains: When and Where Can you Steal a Dead Body? – Robert S. Shiels: The Investigation of Sudden and Accidental Deaths in Mid-Victorian Scotland – Christopher Dingwall: Landscaping for the Dead: The Garden Cemetery Movement in Dundee and Angus – Susan Buckham: ‘Not Architects of Decay’: The Influence of Graveyard Management on Scottish Burial Landscapes – Hilary J. Grainger: Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria 1895-1955 – Stewart J. Brown: ‘Where are our Dead?’ Changing Views of Death and the Afterlife in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Presbyterianism – Peter Howson: ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’: Some Scottish Presbyterian Chaplains and their Responses to the Burial of the Dead during World War One – Glenys Caswell: ‘We Can do Nothing for the Dead’: The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland’s Approach to Death and Funerals.