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Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.

Correspondence between Dalton and Steve Tombs, sociologist, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, on industrial accidents in the chemical industry. Includes two academic papers, 1990 and 1991, written by Tombs.

Papers on Substitution of Organic Solvents in Printing project (SUBSPRINT).

Papers on testimony in 1907 of Dr. Montague Murray, senior physician at Charing Cross Hospital, to Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.

Research carried out by Dalton for Labour Research Department on merits of hard versus soft toilet paper.

Press cuttings collected by Dalton on environmental and occupational health issues other than asbestos.

Papers on trade unions and the environment. Comprises:

• Dalton’s notes from TUC Environment Symposium, 1996
• report and articles on trade unions and the environment, 1992-1998

Correspondence and papers from the TUC. Includes:

• press releases and newsletters on asbestos
• evaluation of Health and Safety Executive’s asbestos awareness campaign, 1996
• report on seminar on synthetic mineral fibres held at Health and Safety Executive, 1997
• briefing re Workers’ Memorial Day, 2001
• 'Asbestos. Survey and manage asbestos in buildings now. No hiding place.'. Hazards Campaign/TUC guide, c. 2002.

Letters to Dalton from Bill Lawrence, Tyneside Occupational Health Project. Includes:

• papers on state benefits for asbestos disease, 2000, 2002
• letter from Lawrence to Stephen Byres, MP, on liquidation of Iron Trades Employers Association, January 2001
• correspondence and papers on new drug treatments for mesothelioma, 2002
• Trade Union Studies Information Unit Health & Safety News, 2002

Papers on asbestos in USA. Includes:

• emails and article on asbestos in California and Montana, 2000
• email on levels of asbestos in New York City after terrorist attack on World Trade Center, 2001

Papers on prosecutions of waste disposal/recycling firms over deaths of employees. Inlcudes press coverage and notes by Dalton on Ian Ward who died while working for Norpol Recycling Ltd, Lancashire.

Correspondence and papers on white asbestos hazards. In response to articles by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph and John Bridle in The Safety and Health Practitioner claiming white asbestos is harmless. Includes:

• scientific papers on chrysotile asbestos, 1996-2001
• letter by Dalton to The Sunday Telegraph
• press cuttings

Internal memorandum from Dalton, Transport & General Workers Union, on a women’s health and safety at work reading list. Encloses ‘Occupational safety and health concerns of Canadian women’ by Karen Messing.

Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.