Books by Sarah (University of Leicester) Tarlow

In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement, one of the most current concepts of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. Written primarily for archaeologists, this book will also be of interest to social historians and historical geographers.

Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's book addresses new questions about the problem of 'belief' in the past, and provides an original interpretive framework for the archaeological and historical evidence of death and the materiality of the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland.