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It's #publicationday for Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster! Thanks to everyone who helped along the way--hope I remembered you all in the acknowledgements 🧵
Tom White
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Writer; education worker; UCU member & caseworker
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BAD DUST: A HISTORY OF THE ASBESTOS DISASTER bit.ly/4drpSPO
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BAD DUST: A HISTORY OF THE ASBESTOS DISASTER bit.ly/4drpSPO
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Tomorrow!
I'm doing the next @Hullhistorynews lunchtime talk, on the rise and fall of the 1931 Humber Bridge Bill. How close did we come to getting a bridge, half a century before one was finally built? Come along to find out!
10 November, 12.30. hullhistorycentre.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…View quoted post on X
I'm doing the next @Hullhistorynews lunchtime talk, on the rise and fall of the 1931 Humber Bridge Bill. How close did we come to getting a bridge, half a century before one was finally built? Come along to find out!
10 November, 12.30. hullhistorycentre.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…
10 November, 12.30. hullhistorycentre.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…
I wrote an article for the excellent @dispatch__media on the UK's asbestos death toll. The official figure is 5000 annual deaths--a horrific number--but the real total could be 4 or 5 times that
dispatch-media.com/is-britain-cov…
dispatch-media.com/is-britain-cov…
dispatch-media.com Is Britain covering up its asbestos death toll? Officially, asbestos kills 5,000 Brits a year • New research suggests the true toll could top 20,000 • Why the discrepancy? I wrote an article for the excellent @dispatch__media on Britain's asbestos death toll. The official figure is 5000 a year, but the real number is likely several times higher than that
dispatch-media.com/is-britain-cov…
dispatch-media.com/is-britain-cov…
dispatch-media.com Is Britain covering up its asbestos death toll? Officially, asbestos kills 5,000 Brits a year • New research suggests the true toll could top 20,000 • Why the discrepancy?