Julie Rugg

Biographic Data

ID4620492
NAMEJulie Rugg
GIVEN NAMESJulie
FAMILY NAMERugg
SIGNATURERUGG J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of York
ORCID0000-0002-0067-6209
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS115
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • The feasibility of a psychometric measure for the experiences of funerals

    Open AccessPeter E Branney, Elizabeth Walters et al.ARTICLEMortality2026

    To test the feasibility and reliability and validity of the Experiences of Funerals measure (EIFFEL) measure in a community population. Using a non-experimental psychometric design, 194 participants completed EIFFEL, which was analysed using item completion rates, exploratory and confirmatory factory analyses and corroborated with free-text comments. EIFFEL shows good acceptability although internal consistency was low (Cronbach’s alpha of 0.41,N…

  • Plausibly deniable - Domestic cannabis cultivation and the private rented sector in the UK

    Open AccessXavier L’Hoiry, Julie Rugg et al.ARTICLETrends in Organized Crime2025

    Domestic cannabis cultivation has grown exponentially for the past several decades and is said to outstrip importation from abroad in many jurisdictions, the UK included. While research has been attentive to this shift, scant attention has been paid to the space in which much domestic cannabis cultivation takes place: privately rented residential property. This article explores how and why the private rented sector in the UK facilitates and incub…

  • ‘Hiding in plain sight’: Organised crime, financial crime and property

    Open AccessXavier L’Hoiry, Julie Rugg et al.ARTICLETrends in Organized Crime2025

    This special issue of Trends in Organised Crime brings together recent empirical research on organised crime, financial crime and property. The collection comprises six original contributions, which collectively reveal the multiple ways property intersects with organised and financial crime – from organised violence against property, predatory landlordism, and domestic cannabis cultivation, to mortgage and real estate fraud, and money laundering

  • The disposal of cremation ashes in tourism settings: Practices, impacts and management

    Donald Light, Julie Rugg et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2023

    Although research into the relationship between tourism and death has predominantly focused on dark tourism, tourism scholars are exploring other forms of association between the two. In this context, this paper focuses on a little-researched practice in tourism studies: the scattering of cremation ashes in spaces used for tourism and leisure. This is not a universal practice, and it may only be commonplace in countries with permissive legislatio…

  • The Industrial Archaeology of the Burial Landscape

    Julie RuggCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Industrial…2022

    The study of churchyards and cemeteries can benefit from the application of core questions and methods of industrial archaeology, which encourages more detailed interrogation of fundamentals. These include the evolution of burial space over time in a particular location, and a higher level of attention to definition, ownership, and purpose of the different types of spaces used for interment. Industrial archaeological approaches also invite explor…

  • Nineteenth-Century Burial Reform in England: A Reappraisal

    Open AccessJulie RuggARTICLEHistoire médecine et santé2021

    In comparison with other European nations, 19th-century burial reform in England is often related as a history of difference and failure. England lacked centralising legislation to enforce the establishment of new, sanitary cemeteries. Rather, permissive regulation encouraged the creation of new cemeteries, largely reliant on local initiative. This paper presents a re-evaluation of that history by focussing on archival documents from the General …

  • Funerary heritage tourism: Definitions and principles

    Open AccessJulie RuggARTICLERevista Murciana de Antropología2021

    En muchas grandes ciudades, el ‘primer’ cementerio decimonónico es cada vez más el núcleo del turismo de cementerios. El texto considera el ‘patrimonio funerario’ como un desarrollo relacionado pero diferente. Señala la posible relación incómoda entre el turismo de cemen- terios y patrimonio funerario, en parte debido a la falta de voluntad de asociar directamente las visitas a los cementerios con la muerte. Un turismo de cementerios mal plantead…

  • Social justice and cemetery systems

    Julie RuggARTICLEDeath Studies2020Cited by: 8References: 2

    This paper applies social justice frameworks to "cemetery systems," which here denotes the framework by which each nation state orders the disposal of the dead, and which generally includes burial, cremation and the interment or scattering of cremated remains. An application of social justice theory indicates the desirability of certain key principles for all cemetery systems: decent disposal as a human right; democratic accountability; equality …

  • Secularity and burial space in 19th century England: Secularidad y espacios de enterramiento en la Inglaterra del siglo XIX

    Open AccessJulie RuggARTICLERevista Murciana de Antropología2019

    Este artículo cuestiona la afirmación de que la secularidad ha sido siempre un debate central en la idea de cementerio. En gran parte de Inglaterra se impuso una ‘guerra cultural’ entre partidarios de la Iglesia Anglicana y varias confesiones de Disidencia protestante. El cementerio fue un foco de conflicto, centra- do en el grado de control ejercido por la Iglesia Establecida. Este conflicto no reflejó la demanda de funerales ‘civiles’. Los prot…

  • Architecture, death and nationhood: Monumental cemeteries of nineteenth-century Italy

    Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2019

    Architecture, death and nationhood: monumental cemeteries of nineteenth-century Italy." Mortality, 24(4), pp. 489–490

  • Grave matters: Death and dying in Dublin 1500 to the present

    Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2018

  • Consolation, Individuation and Consumption: Towards A Theory of Cyclicality in English Funerary Practice

    Julie RuggARTICLECultural and Social History2018References: 12

    The paper contends that the scale of mortality is a more significant determinant of change in funerary practice than chronological periodisation. A concentration on scale suggests that change in funerary practice runs in cycles, reflecting the search by the bereaved for consolation that is undermined by the threat to individuation posed by industrial-level scales of operation and professionalization. Within this framework, the bereaved make activ…

  • Respecting corpses: The ethics of grave re-use

    Julie Rugg, Stephen HollandARTICLEMortality2017

    The paper argues that grave reuse cannot be ethically evaluated simply by adverting to cognate issues, such as archaeological and medical ethics, since grave reuse comprises a very specific type of disturbance. Whilst there is no general ethical prohibition against disturbing the dead, a more detailed analysis is required in the case of English Victorian ‘perpetuity graves’. It is argued that, even granted that posthumous harms exist, on a proper…

  • Churchyard and cemetery in an English industrial city: Sheffield, 1740–1900

    Open AccessJulie Rugg, Fiona J Stirling et al.ARTICLEUrban History2014Cited by: 3References: 4

    Accounts of nineteenth-century burial practice in England borrow heavily from French historiography, which describes the way that scientific agendas drove a shift from traditional churchyard use to secular, municipal cemetery management. A challenge to this meta-narrative uses the example of Sheffield. In this highly industrialized city, the nineteenth century did not see a dichotomized translation from churchyard to cemetery; the Church Building…

  • Choice and constraint in the burial landscape: Re-evaluating twentieth-century commemoration in the English churchyard

    Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2013

    Death in the twentieth century is generally defined in terms of large-scale trajectories and meta-narratives that are presumed to reflect changing attitudes towards mortality. In actuality, there is very little historical research that concentrates on the ‘typical’ and domestic experiences of mortality and funerary practice. The assumption that the century can be characterised in terms of ‘disengagement’ does not encompass evidence around commemo…

  • Constructing the grave: Competing burial ideals in nineteenth-century England

    Julie RuggARTICLESocial History2013Cited by: 6

    ‘The grave’ is often taken as a symbolic representation of mortality itself – untold secrets are generally taken ‘to the grave’ – and there can be little ambiguity with regard to the hole in the gr

  • The Victorian cemetery

    Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2010

  • Marietta Haffner, Joris Hoekstra, Michael Oxley and Harry van der Heijden: Bridging the gap between social and market rented housing in six European countries

    Open AccessJulie RuggARTICLEJournal of Housing and the Built…2010

  • Houses of life: Jewish cemeteries of Europe

    Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2009

  • Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914

    Julie RuggARTICLEThe English Historical Review2007

    THIS text makes a substantial contribution to the burgeoning literature on Britain's changing death culture. In all of this research, the most problematic strand has remained an exploration of the experiences, beliefs, feelings and actions of individuals and families faced by the loss of a friend or family member. Pat Jalland's Death in the Victorian Family (1994) (rev. ante, cxiii (1998), 1349–50) used the letters, diaries and other writings of …

  • Lawn cemeteries: The emergence of a new landscape of death

    Open AccessJulie RuggARTICLEUrban History2006Cited by: 10

    The provision of space for burial is a common but rarely discussed feature of urban existence. Shifts in cemetery aesthetics reflect changing views on what might be thought appropriate landscapes in which to bury the dead. This article, for the first time in a UK context, describes and analyses the introduction of the lawn cemetery in the twentieth century, and gives the rise of cremation a central place in explaining the need to ‘reinvent’ the c…

  • Housing advantage? the role of student renting in the constitution of housing biographies in the United Kingdom

    Julie Rugg, Janet Ford et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth Studies2004Cited by: 25References: 3

    Research on young people leaving the parental home has tended to focus most closely on charting and explaining the age at which young people leave, and exploring the incidence of returning after a period of living either ‘semi‐autonomously’ or independently. The majority of these studies have been quantitative and fairly static in approach. This paper develops an approach to the topic that is more qualitative in its orientation and that views hou…

  • Managing 'Civilian Deaths due to War Operations: Yorkshire Experiences During World War II

    Julie RuggARTICLETwentieth Century British History2004Cited by: 5

    Air raid precautions prior to and during the Second World War included guidance on the burial of civilians who had been killed by enemy bombardment. The Ministry of Health Circular 1779 was published before the start of the war, on the understanding that 'scheme-making' authorities would need time to prepare for the interment of mass fatalities. As the Blitz got underway, tensions emerged between the state's pragmatic concerns to restrict the cos…

  • Managing London's dead: A case of strategic policy failure

    Ian Hussein, Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2003

    Within the last few decades, two principal debates have emerged with regard to cemetery management policy in the UK: cemetery conservation and the adequacy of planning for burial needs. This paper focuses on the provision of burial space in London, and demonstrates that a lack of burial space, an uneven provision of services, and inequities relating to costs charged to those using the service can be explained through reference to a strategic poli…

  • The development of cemeteries in Portugal c.1755-c.1870

    Francisco Queiroz, Julie RuggARTICLEMortality2003

    In many countries, the introduction of cemeteries constituted a radical change to existing burial traditions. A sporadic secondary literature indicates difficulties in some provincial areas, as reform—often dictated from above, through Royal Edict—became subject to delay and resistence. This paper charts the progress of cemetery establishment in Portugal during a turbulent phase in its history. Through its discussion of some of the obstacles to b…