Gunn, Steven
(2017).
Sixteenth-century English accident inquests.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Archive.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-852155
Data description (abstract)
This data collection consists of a spreadsheet with details extracted from 6000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths in sixteenth-century England held at the National Archives.
Tudor England was a dangerous place. There were plagues and wars, perilous childbirths and shocking infant mortality. But what risks did people face as they went about their everyday lives?
Thousands of coroner's inquest reports on accidental deaths preserved at The National Archives allow us to investigate. These reports cover almost the whole of England, town and country, young and old, men and women, rich and poor. They tell us about working practices in farming, industry and housework and about leisure activities such as football, swimming, bell-ringing and riverside flower-picking, even the risks of getting too close to performing bears. They show contrasts between men's and women's lives, between different agricultural regions, between different times of day and seasons of the year. They show changes across the century, such as the replacement of archery by guns.
Data creators: |
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Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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Grant reference: |
ES/I005218/1
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Topic classification: |
History
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Keywords: |
accidents, accidents at work, accidents in the home, agricultural workers, arrangement of working time, child workers, women's employment, sport, religious behaviour, road travel
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Project title: |
Everyday life and fatal hazard in sixteenth-century England
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Grant holders: |
University of Oxford and Steven John Gunn
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Project dates: |
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1 April 2011 | 30 September 2015 |
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Date published: |
06 Jan 2016 14:19
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Last modified: |
22 Feb 2017 12:29
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Collection period: |
Date from: | Date to: |
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1 April 2011 | 30 September 2015 |
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Geographical area: |
England |
Country: |
United Kingdom |
Spatial unit: |
Administrative > Counties Administrative > Parishes (Civil) |
Data collection method: |
Reports submitted by sixteenth-century coroners were photographed and the details they contained about the incidents in which individuals died were abstracted into a spreadsheet. |
Observation unit: |
Event/Process, Group, Individual |
Kind of data: |
Numeric, Text |
Type of data: |
Historical data |
Resource language: |
English, Latin |
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Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
Documents are derived from TNA(National Archive) classes KB8 and KB9. Most material was translated from Latin.
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Rights owners: |
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Contact: |
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Publisher: |
UK Data Archive
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Last modified: |
22 Feb 2017 12:29
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