Relates to Nancy Tait's efforts to bring about and implement a prohibition on the importation, manufacture, use and sale of asbestos-containing products in the UK.
Elsewhere in the archive there is documentation of Nancy Tait's involvement in the foundation of 'Ban Asbestos' in Strasbourg on 14 June 1991, at the initiative of the Green Group of Members of the European Parliament. See http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/oeda-maureen-wards-reference-files-on-key-actions
- (OEDA/K/8/1) ‘Asbestos – a versatile killer’ | BBC Radio Sheffield Jan ‘78’
- (OEDA/K/8/2) ‘Asbestos – a versatile killer’ Pleural Tuesday / Langer part keep p.69’
- (OEDA/K/8/3) ‘SANDY – SF | Selikoff | Pickering’ and ‘Tuesday p.m.’
- (OEDA/K/8/4) ‘Langer | Notes 69’ / ‘Holstein to p.78 | Fischbein 72’
- (OEDA/K/8/5) ‘Thurs p.m. Mock Trial | 16.12.82’ and ‘Thurs p.m. 16th 12.82’
- (OEDA/K/8/6) ‘Mock trial 1’ / ‘Mock trial 2’
- (OEDA/K/8/7) ‘Selikoff Hammond & ?Lung Function | Tuesday am’ / ‘Tuesday a.m.’
- (OEDA/K/8/8) ‘to 96 p.m. Wed?Ener. &?Dis’ and ‘89 Wed p.m.’
- (OEDA/K/8/9) ‘?Rabin | meso | p.78 |?Lillis’
- (OEDA/K/8/10)‘? – working’
Nancy Tait and her organisation actively engaged with the Disability Alliance in the early 1980s. In 1989 they let membership lapse but continued to purchase the 'Disability Alliance handbook' each year until 2006.
Disability Alliance is a London-based charity currently named Disability Rights UK.
In chronological order.
Documentation on asbestos on the London Underground.