Sixteenth-Century English Accident Inquests, 1500-1600

Sixteenth-century English accident inquests complete deposit is a spreadsheet with details extracted from 8888 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths in sixteenth-century England held at the National Archives. It was created as part of a project funded by the ESRC from 2011 to 2015, ‘Everyday life and fatal hazard in sixteenth-century England’ (reference RES-062-23-2819). The aim was to explore everyday life through the circumstances of accidental death. The inquests date from every year of the sixteenth century and come from almost every county in England, though because of their divergent administrative systems Lancashire, Cheshire, County Durham and the city of London are not included. The data collection underpins the book An Accidental History of Tudor England: From Daily Life to Sudden Death (London, John Murray, 2025). The deposit contains both a csv file version and a version in Excel. It is fuller than the previous deposit ‘First deposit of sixteenth-century English accident inquests’ and includes corrections to data presented there.