"Cemeteries, graveyards and funerals are essential topics for family and local historians and they are fascinating subjects in themselves. Celia Heritage's handbook is a wide-ranging, accessible guide to them showing how to track down your ancestors' burial places and memorials, problems you may encounter along the way, and the information you will find. She also looks at changing attitudes towards death and burial and what would have been involved...

'An invaluable source book for those doing in-depth research into the history of crime or related subjects' -- History Today David Hawkings offers practical in-depth guidelines for researching criminal ancestors. Many fascinating records are incorporated.