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Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from a BBC Newsround South East feature on asbestos. Includes:

• correspondence with Fiona Bruce, BBC, including re individuals affected by asbestos-related disease who are willing to talk to the BBC, and re material from the T&N corporate archive, received through Chase Manhattan Bank's legal team
• overview of response, listing of respondents
• inquiries by telephone, inquiries by post (both in alphabetical order); includes the occasional death certificate

Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from an article by Andrew Bibby, 'Did your work make you sick?', in 'Choice' November 1993, p.42. Includes:

• copy of the article
• SPAID information pack
• information requests, in alphabetical order

OEDA correspondence in response to enquiries resulting from an article in the magazine of the Communication Workers’ Union, October 1998.

Various listings of SPAID/OEDA titles, among them also the notes produced by the organisation.

Photocopies (often marked “master” & “copies”) of articles by Nancy Tait and her colleagues, many of them from the magazine ‘Health and safety at work’ (HSW). Originally in multiple copies. As follows:

• Nancy Tait, ‘A ban on asbestos?’ (‘The construction worker: the paper of the AUEW Construction Section’ vol. 4 No 2, June 1979)
• Nancy Tait, 'Why the asbestos problem remains unresolved' (HSW October 1984, 34-36)
• Nancy Tait, 'Further reasons why the asbestos problem remains unresolved' (HSW November 1984, 76-79)
• Nancy Tait, 'SPAID identifies asbestos-related problems and assists victims and their families' (possible a handout at the Health & Safety at Work conference 1984, rather than a publication in HSW)
• Anon [?Nancy Tait?], 'Mesothelioma victim dies waiting for industrial disablement benefit' (HSW February 1985, 42-44). The victim in question was Ronald Hill of Glasgow, who died 3 June 1983. Mr Hill had worked in construction, among others that of the Red Road Flats, Glasgow, during the 1960s
• Martin Stower, 'Dockworkers land asbestos-related diseases' (HSW April 1985, 36, 38)
• Nancy Tait, 'A case in point' ('The safety representative' August 1985); includes correspondence and draft article
• Anon [?Nancy Tait?], 'Americans dispute Doll/Peto estimate of asbestos risk' (HSW November 1985, 11)
• Anon [?Nancy Tait?], 'White asbestos risk underestimated' (HSW August 1986, 6)
• [incomplete] '... standards of protection' (unidentified magazine, 1987, 25-26)
• Nancy Tait, 'Asbestos still a killer' ('Health visitor' vol. 64 No 1, January 1991, 27)

• subscription list, December 2000
• complete set from No 1 (summer 1996) to No 14 (Winter 2002/3)
• various documents and news items gathered to produce current and future issues, 1998-2001, among them:
• correspondence with freelance journalist Eileen Fursland, 2003
• some case correspondence and correspondence on the 'compensation culture'
• copy of Government of Canada (1996) 'Minerals and metals policy of the Government of Canada'
• copy of House of Lords’ judgment in Matthews v. Ministry of Defence, 2003
• documents re journalist Christopher Booker downplaying the asbestos risk, 2002

Correspondence and papers (including drafts) re SPAID publication on 'Asbestos and dockers', c.1985-1988, including earlier materials c.1966-1982.

• version of 'Asbestos and dockers', dated 1988
• photocopy of Martin Stower (April 1985) 'Dockworkers and asbestos-related diseases' ('Health and safety at work', pp. 36, 38) and typescript draft
• typescript of SPAID note 17b 'Asbestos kills husband and wife'
• documentation from the Turner & Newall Archive relating to asbestos widow Molly Fisher, whose husband Samuel Fisher had been an asbestos spinner; also press coverage re safety limits

Distribution and sale of OEDA publications ‘Asbestos fibres in lung tissue’ and the companion, ‘Asbestos: to challenge “fibre counts”’.

The audience for these publications were chiefly solicitors.

Copies of Nancy Tait (November 2002), 'Asbestos: to challenge "fibre counts"'. Also includes the slightly earlier version (April 2002) 'Asbestos: more facts on fibres', which focussed on Dr A Gibbs’ techniques, with annotations on post-its.

Correspondence and papers re production of leaflet ‘Asbestos in your home’, 2005 and 2006. Includes background material, drafts, correspondences with sponsors.

• board captioned 'Air filter analysis' with four black and white photographs of fibres, mounted (marked 'A' at front and 'B16' at the back)
• board captioned 'Air sample from a domestic dwelling' with four black and white photographs of fibres, mounted (marked 'B' at front and 'B17' at the back)
• board captioned 'Air sample from a laboratory working area' with six black and white photographs of fibres, mounted (marked 'C' at front and 'B18' at the back)

• board with black and white photograph mounted (marked 'Ultra thin' at front and 'B34' at the back; stamped 'Queen Mary College Biological Electron Microscope Unit')
• black and white photograph, two sizes, of object under microscope; '10kv x1,000 10μm 541005'

Display boards visualising the presence of asbestos in the environment. Includes photographs of older displays on asbestos in household appliances and asbestos in floor tiles.

Includes photograph of earlier display on the topic. The photograph shows that the earlier display contained Marley vinyl floor tiling samples that are likely to contain asbestos.

The earlier display on floor tiles appears to be among those that have been disposed of in line with health & safety regulations of the University of Strathclyde.

Display board visualising asbestos in buildings in Adelaide, Australia.

Labelled ‘OEDA’.

Display board on the impact of the Wittenoom asbestos mine, Western Australia, and in particular the court action of the Morland family.

Mounted press coverage ‘Tragic legacy of the "magic mineral"'.

Labelled neither 'SPAID' nor ‘OEDA’.