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'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.

'Death and Disorder' Published

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

Prison entrance

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

Group of people standing, smiling

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

Submission to Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

The Grenfell Tower fire

Our History

'Deaths at Work: Accidents or Corporate Crime' published

In the 1980s and 1990s, INQUEST's remit covered deaths at work. Casework inlcuded supporting the families of those who died at work due to negligence and poor working conditions.

Research for this booklet was born out of the Hazards Movement and the Construction Safety Campaign in 1987.

Deaths at Work served to put the issue of corporate criminal accountability after workplace deaths on the political agenda.

A collaborative effort with the London Hazards Centre and the Workers' Educational Association, the booklet set out to:

Explain failures in the investigation systems which were allowing companies to escape the reach of criminal law
Propose changes in police and health and safety law
To act as a handbook for lawyers, trades unions and bereaved families

Click below to read a summary of demands from the booklet.

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 front pages and demands