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From the early 1980s, Nancy Tait maintained very active contacts with a number of solicitors and legal scholars, discussing legal technicalities, news and developments. The resulting body of correspondence mostly accumulated by surname and/or name of law firm and occasionally by the topic under discussion.

For a separate series of solicitors' correspondence, mainly concerning enquiries, see the link below.

Roughly in chronological order.

OEDA created dedicated press coverage files, the largest of them a multi-volume series of press cuttings 1976-2007. This is followed by smaller aggregations.

More press coverage can be found throughout the OEDA papers. In the early years the charity monitored the anglophone press (chiefly British national dailies, but also trades magazines and local papers) for information with potential relevance for its mission, and continued to gather news reports until 2006. Some press cuttings came to OEDA from asbestos activists, personal injury lawyers, and well-wishers. Through its international network, OEDA also received media reports from North America, sporadically also from Australia and South Africa.

Some of these holdings are catalogued in the OEDA collection of printed material (see link below), among them incomplete sets of the following titles:

• ‘Engineering Safety’ July 1970-March 1978
• ‘Caution magazine’ vol 7.5 (1981) – vol 12.1 (1986)
• 'Safety practitioner' May + June 1985 and ‘Safety & health practitioner’ May 1991-June 1994 (both Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)

From the mid-1970s, Nancy Tait maintained very active contacts with a number of trade unions, discussing health & safety matters, news and developments. The resulting body of correspondence mostly accumulated by name of union.

Two series:

• analogue registers and finding aids
• OEDA case database and data sheets