The Cremation Society of Great Britain

What's New?

8 February 2012

Index of Conference Papers updated

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2011 added

20 October 2011

Ulf Lagerström appointed Vice-President

Index of Conference Papers updated

7 August 2011

National Cremation Statistics 2010 added

27 June 2011

Index of Conference Papers updated

7 May 2011

International Cremation Statistics 2009 added

12 January 2011

Cremation and Burial Conference and Exhibition 2011 details

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2010 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

25 November 2010

Mr Malcolm Stronach elected a Member of the Council

27 October 2010

Index of Conference Papers updated

31 August 2010

National Cremation Statistics 2009 added

9 August 2010

Mr Jeremy Leigh Pemberton resigns as Vice-Presdent

1 June 2010

Cremation and Burial Conference and Exhibition 2010 details

16 May 2010

2005 Revision of FBCA's Code of Cremation Practice added (very belatedly)

4 April 2010

Index of Conference Papers updated

28 February 2010

International Cremation Statistics 2008 added

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2009 added

5 January 2010

Index of Conference Papers updated

13 November 2009

Index of Conference Papers updated

28 Ju;y 2009

Pandemic Planning: FBCA Self Review Checklist for Response to Additional Deaths posted

National Cremation Statistics 2008 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

3 March 2009

Index of Conference Papers updated

6 February 2009

Cremation and Burial Conference and Exhibition 2009 details

International Cremation Statistics 2007 added

International Cremation Statistics 2006 updated

Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2008 added

15 Ocotber 2008

Index of Conference Papers updated

1 August 2008

National Cremation Statistics 2007 added

3 July 2008

Index of Conference Papers updated

17 June 2008

Memorandum of Association amended

1 May 2008

Professor Hilary Grainger appointed a member of the Council

27 April 2008

Lord Tunnicliffe resigns as Vice-President on joining the Government as a Lord in Waiting in the Whips' Office inthe House of Lords

3 April 2008

Index of Conference Papers updated

30 January 2008

Index of Conference Papers updated

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2006 added

International Cremation Statistics 2006 added

24 October 2007

Index of Conference Papers updated

30 August 2007

Index of Conference Papers updated

National Cremation Statistics 2006 added

19 June 2007

International Cremation & Burial Conference & Exhibition 2007 Announcement

3 April 2007

Index of Conference Papers updated

International Cremation Statistics 2005 added

19 February 2007

Dr Stephen Leadbeatter retires from the Council

16 January 2007

Index of Conference Papers updated

National Cremation Statistics 2005 added

Death Redesigned, British Crematoria: History, Architecture and Landscape by Hilary J Grainger available for purchase

19 November 2007

Ms Jandy Stevenson retires from the Council

2 August 2006

Index of Conference Papers updated

21 June 2006

Lord Tunicliffe appointed a Vice-President

Order under Regulation 14 of the Cremation Regulations, 1930, 1962 (Rhonnda) added

Order under Regulation 14 of the Cremation Regulations, 1930, 1962 (Penybont) added

Order under Regulation 14 of the Cremation Regulations, 1930, 1962 (Ogmore and Garw) added

14 April 2006

79th Annual Conference 2006 details and booking forms

Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Mortlake Crematorium Board) Act, 1946 added

Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (South-West Middlesex Crematorium Board) Act, 1950

14 March 2006

Index of Conference Papers updated

Cremation (Amendment) Regulations 2006 added

Cremation Regulations 1930 as amended by Cremation (Amendment) Regulations 2006 added

8 February 2006

Davies, Douglas J., with Mates, Lewis H.(2006). Encyclopaedia of Cremation
Grainger, Hilary J.(2006). Death Redesigned: British Crematoria: History, Architecture and Landscape
Jupp, Peter C.(2006). From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death
Parsons, Brian.(2006). Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in Nineteenth-Century England
added to the Bibliography of cremation in the United Kingdom.

3 January 2006

Merchants House of Glasgow (Crematorium) Order Confirmation Act, 1950 added

31 December 2005

International Cremation Statistics 2004 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

1 November 2005

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2005 added

Council Members' details updated

Index of Conference Papers updated

20 October 2005

Home Secretary's functions transferred to Department for Constitutional Affairs

6 October 2005

Directory of Crematoria 2005 available

2 September 2005

Link to new website of International Cremation Federation added

27 July 2005

National Cremation Statistics 2004 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

New publication - "What is Respectful Disposal?"

1 July 2005

78th Annual Conference 2005 details

26 March 2005

Index of Conference Papers updated

78th Annual Conference 2005 brief details

20 December 2004

International Cremation Statistics 2003 added

13 December 2004

Index of Conference Papers updated

29 October 2004

Directory of Crematoria 2004 available

27 October 2004

Index of Conference Papers updated

Link to Where Have All the Ashes Gone? (Environments of Memory: New Rituals of Mourning in the UK) (external site) added

18 October 2004

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2004 added

New Memorandum and Articles of Association adopted

27 July 2004

Index of Conference Papers updated

Bibliography of Cremation in G.B. updated

26 June 2004

National Cremation Statistics 2003 added

6 June 2004

77th Annual Conference 2004 details

31 May 2004

Index of Conference Papers updated

25 February 2004

International Cremation Statistics 2002 added

International Cremation Statistics 2001 added

15 February 2004

Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, appointed a Vice-President

24 January 2004

Index of Conference Papers updated

15 November 2003

National Cremation Statistics 2002 added

9 October 2003

Ms Jandy Stevenson appointed a member of the Council

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2003 added

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2002 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

23 July 2003

Statutory Law relating to Cremation in Northern Ireland added (in draft and to be completed)

27 June 2003

Statutory Law relating to Cremation in Scotland updated by addition of Cremation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations, 2003

28 May 2003

76th Annual Conference 2003 details and booking forms

11 May 2003

Statutory Law relating to Cremation in Scotland added

Index of Conference Papers updated

23 April 2003

Mr Tony McCarthy appointed a member of the Council

6 January 2003

National Cremation Statistics 2001 added

Index of Conference Papers updated

18 October 2002

Index of Conference Papers updated

Bibliography updated

10 October 2002

His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, appointed a Vice-President

12 September 2002

Bibliography updated

Federation of British Cremation Authorities' Code of Cremation Practice added

5 May 2002

International Cremation Statistics 2000 added

3 April 2002

Dr Stephen Leadbeatter appointed a member of the Council

Annual Conference 2002 details and booking forms

19 December 2001

Deposit of Society's archives at Durham University

20 October 2001

Annual Report for year ending 31 March 2001 added

18 October 2001

National Cremation Statistics 2000 added