Mr Daniel Burrelldaniel.d.burrell@durham.ac.ukDepartment of History, Durham University
Daniel Burrell is a historian specialising in the emergence of 'Cremationism' as an eclectic phenomenon in late nineteenth-century Britain. Daniel is currently a PhD student at our Centre for Death and Life Studies under the supervision of Professor Julie-Marie Strange. His PhD project, Race, Religion, Nationhood, and Empire: Rethinking Cremationism in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain, attempts to rethink 'Cremationism' as a broad and pluralistic philosophy, rather than a discrete social movement, which served as a space for the conceptualisation and contestation of an imagined modernity. Daniel's broader interests include the significance of British and global public engagement with the century's recursive tropes of race and the 'other', class division, religious pluralisation, gender, sexuality, the family, as well as British nationhood and empire. The Cremation Society Archives, curated by Durham University, have proven to be an invaluable resource for Daniel's primary research.