The charity Inquest has been digitalising its archive and history over the last few years and today, we get to see their new website which offers access to it. The archive itself sits at the Bishopgate Institute in east London and researchers can visit and access the material and you can search the Institute’s Inquest Archive Catalogue online.
This is undoubtedly an incredible resource, both in terms of history, campaigning and as a research tool. I’m thinking I may treat myself to a PhD day out in London at some point soon.
Please note: the heritage project to upload material to the catalogue is ongoing so you may have ideas in mind but find some things are not quite there (yet).
Congratulations to all those at Inquest getting this done – they perform an incredible function in our society, entirely done without funding from the state.
You can contribute to Inquest’s work by donation.
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