'As the mother of a brown boy…' theatre performance

The front cover of the book, 'Death and Disorder'. The bright red cover contrasts with the black and white image of a police officer, with their face shield down pointing a gun. The title is in black font, underneath a brief description in white font.

The front cover of the book, 'Death in the City', contains a black and white image of a car. Pink arrows point to bullet holes in the car rear window. The title and the authors' names, Melissa Benn and Ken Worpole, are in pink font on the cover.

'Death in the City' published

The cover of the booklet has the text sat diagonal in different directions. Alongside is a sketch of a skeleton wearing uniform.

'Deaths at Work: Accidents or Corporate Crime' published

'Dying on the Inside' published

'In the Care of the State?' published

'Lobbying from Below' by Mick Ryan is published

'The Right to Life' published

'Unlocking The Truth' published

20-52 play about Leon Patterson at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Angiolini Review report published

Four campaigners stand in the icy weather holding posters that represent gravestones of people who died from self-inflicted deaths in prisons. The image is dated 12 February 1985.

Appointment of two paid London workers

Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘The one minutes of silence' poem

Brixton: spotlighting horrific prison conditions

Benjamin Zephaniah sat recording into a microphone his Radio 4 appeal.

Charity appeal on BBC Radio 4 with Benjamin Zephaniah

Charity appeal on BBC Radio 4 with Linton Kwesi Johnson

Corston Report published

Family reflections on Grenfell published

First 'lack of care' verdict at an inquest into a self-inflicted death

First INQUEST Family Forum

First INQUEST fringe meeting at Labour conference

First INQUEST Law magazine published

First INQUEST meeting

First UFFC procession

Gibraltar Shootings inquest

Gilly Singh Mundy dies

Harris Review report published

Red lights illuminate the St George's Hall Liverpool as the words 'Truth' and 'Justice' shine bright.

Hillsborough Football Disaster

Human Rights Act

INQUEST assists with Bishop James Jones's review of Hillsborough families' experiences

INQUEST Charitable Trust founded

INQUEST family support group starts up

Inquest into the Marchioness disaster begins

INQUEST is joint winner of the Human Rights Award

INQUEST Lawyers Group founded

INQUEST NORTHWEST set up

Learning from Death in Custody Inquests: A New Framework for Accountability

A black and white image of the front page of a Daily Mirror newspaper. The headline reads: 'Blind ship of death'

Marchioness Disaster

Non-means-tested legal aid for Article 2 inquests won

Seni's Law

Submission to Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

The Grenfell Tower fire

Our History

'Death and Disorder' Published

Written by one of the charity's joint organisers, Tony Ward, Death and Disorder was INQUEST's first self-published book.

Drawn from Tony's direct work with families through INQUEST, the book uses specific cases to explore wider aspects of policing. It examines the deaths of Kevin Gately, Blair Peach and Cynthia Jarrett, who all died in police custody or following contact with the police.

Contextualising criticism of police response to 'riots' in the 1970s and 1980s, Ward takes a long view of 'public order' in Britain. Death and Disorder also compares inconsistencies in the inquest system through the examples of Cynthia Jarrett and Blair Peach.

In 'Chapter 1: Riot and Repression: A Historical Perspective', Ward writes:

...the violence of the police may appear as a new and shocking departure from the 'British police tradition', but in a longer perspective that tradition can be seen as two-sided. One one side is the policy of limiting the police's use of roce and cultivating legitimacy through 'policing by consent'; on the other, a readiness to resort to draconian methods in times of percevied social and political crisis.

'Death and Disorder' Published

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