John Anderson's writings and experiments on artillery; plan of the Greenock batteries, c 1795.
This section comprises the following series:
- Cities in Evolution
- City Development
- City Development (continued)
- Regions and Cities
- Cities and Regional Surveys
- Cities and Regional Surveys (continued)
- India
- Cyprus
- Palestine
- Ireland
OEDA often tracked information by subject rather than by current activity or pending matter. In this manner the organisation tended to accumulate data on a range of occupational and environmental health themes.
Student records 1917/1918-1969/1970 incomplete; examination papers 1923/1924-1969; examination results 1913/1914-1969/1970.
This section comprises the following series:
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Civilisation, Social Science
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Material relating to Frédéric Le Play
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Sociology and Health
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Civics, Occupations
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Social Evolution
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Applied Urban and Rural Sociology
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Miscellaneous Sociological Notes
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Miscellaneous Sociological Notes (continued)
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Miscellaneous Sociological Notes
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Miscellaneous Notes on Sociology and Reconstruction
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Miscellaneous Notes on (International) Sociology
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Notes and Papers on Sociology, Life Theory and Women
Manuscript volumes containing scientific papers and experiments; blank sheets for recording barometer readings.
Nancy Tait viewed her organisation as an asbestos action group with a research agenda, rather than simply a victims support group. This perception is very much in line with the charity's trust deed, which lists research into the causes, prevention and treatment of asbestos related disease as its primary objective.
By the mid-1970s, the investigations Nancy Tait had begun following her husband's death in 1968 earned her a fellowship from the Churchill Trust, which allowed her to travel and to seek out international specialists in person. She began to publish her own asbestos literature and to testify as an expert witness, initially on the strength of her intimate knowledge of the impact of a mesothelioma diagnosis, but also of her readings, her exchanges with medical and environmental authorities, and her sheer determination to get to the bottom of how asbestos operated on the human body over time.
As SPAID / OEDA developed, Nancy Tait's investigations drew also on a growing knowledge base of case histories, with detailed medical and legal information. From 1988 onwards that knowledge base was enriched by the evidence provided by the SPAID electron microscope laboratory.
There are four series:
- Research correspondence
- Expert testimony and consulting
- Mesothelioma mortality and death certification
- Criticism of fibre counting
These are followed by smaller aggregations.
Other types of research (e.g. legal, health & safety, industrial injury claims-related, and so forth) can be found throughout the collection, in particular in Sections E (Advocacy) and F (Networking). Research outputs are in OEDA/C/2 (Publications by SPAID / OEDA).
Rusk's research notes and material. Also, several publications owned by Rusk.
This section comprises the following series:
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Manuscript and typescript lecture notes, papers etc.
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Correspondence
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Printed and published material