The funeral as an opportunity for social display, 1700-1820, with a specific focus on the West Country

The thesis examines eighteenth-century funerals as opportunities for social display. It analyses funerals in the region around the cities of Bath, Bristol and Salisbury, identified as the West Country. This is a prosperous and interesting region which has not been studied by existing literature on f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Brien, Daniel
Other Authors: Sheldon, Richard ; Thompson, James
Published: University of Bristol 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761175