Correspondence with and about safety and environment campaigner Alan Dalton.
Includes:
-Papers about the TUC Safety Convention 1997
-Correspondence about the death of Alan Dalton, on 11 Dec 2003, and his funeral
-A document: 'A Tribute to Alan Dalton'
-Minutes of a meeting of the National Hazards Campaign, 15 July 2002
-Papers and correspondence about a joint Hazards Campaign/TUC conference, 23 April 2001, at which Nancy Tait spoke
-Invitation to Alan Dalton's 50th Birthday Party
-Press Releases
-Some copies of Dalton articles
-Correspondence about Alan's involvement in and his leaving the 'Transport and General Workers' Union' (T&G)
-Correspondence about the OEDA 'balloon release', 1998
-Dalton's comments on the 'Peto Report', 1997
-Correspondence about fibre levels
-Copy of booklet 'Fighting Asbestos at work & at home'
-Copies of various articles about asbestos
-Copy of an article about John McPherson's story: 'Gleswegians fight asbestos'
A little correspondence, including OEDA's response to the Breathe Easy Survey, 1998, and a sample gift that accompanied the BLF gift appeal in December of that year.
Correspondence and papers, among them news coverage, press reports, scientific papers. Includes:
- correspondence with Belgian journalist Salvatore Nay (with copy of Nay’s contribution to the special issue of the ‘International journal of occupational and environmental health’ (IJOEH), ‘War on asbestos’ vol. 9(3) (2003) on floppy disc); further includes photocopy of a note by Étienne Auribault, Health & Safety Inspector, re asbestos, published in ‘Bulletin de l’inspection du travail’ 1906
- correspondence re the European Union Directive on exposure to asbestos at work and other European health & safety measures
- a little material relating to German Green politician and activist Petra Kelly; the Tait-Kelly correspondence can be consulted in the Petra-Kelly-Archive, Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
- extract from proceedings of the IFF/WHO-EUROPE workshop ‘Cultural factors in worksite health promotion’, ?Linz, Austria, 31 May - 5 June 1987
Salvatore Nay was director of Francophone radio television in Belgium (RTBF) and one of the first in Belgium to reveal the asbestos scandal.
Copies of the 'British asbestos newsletter' (or 'BAN') 1990-2007, with intercalated material including correspondence.
Incomplete set; the following numbers are missing:
- ?2, ?4, 6, 9, 27, 37, 43, 44, 50, 51, 54, 55, and 66
BAN was founded and edited by global anti-asbestos advocate Laurie Kazan-Allen.
Zonder titelCorrespondence, in reverse chronological order. Nearly all of it email and email attachments.
Correspondence between Registrar of the University Court, the University Principal, and Privy Council Office, Whitehall regarding the University of Strathclyde charter and the amendments to the statutes.
Two class group photographs of boys at Allan Glen's School.
Zonder titelIncludes a list of illustrations.
These are distinguished from the other groups of illustrations by appearing to be hand-coloured engravings, each identified by a table number, also engraved, except in one instance.
- Tab. 4 (in pencil) Symphytum officinale. L.
- Tab. 35 (engraved) Tanactetum vulgare. L.
- Tab. 60 (engraved) Rosmarinus officinalis. L.
- Tab. 68 (engraved) Bactyrilobium Fistula Willd.
- Tab. 71 (engraved) Tussilago Farfara. L. a. planta florens.
- Tab. 112 (engraved) Mentha piperita. L.
- Tab. 128 (engraved) Verbascum phlomoides. L.
- Tab. 133 (engraved) Cannabis sativa. L. a. mas.
- Tab. 180 (engraved) Cassia Senna. L.
- Tab. 197 (engraved) Juniperus Sabina. L.
- Tab. 206 (engraved) Arbutus Uva ursi. L.
- No. 231 (engraved) Artemisia Santonica. Gmel.
- Tab. 234 (engraved) Cucumis Colocynthis. L.
Letters, poetry and articles from Tom Leonard to Colin and Gerri Kirkwood, 1966-2005. Includes the poems 'Words, for Eva', ''Cheer up,' she says. 'How do you like my dress?'', 'The Fair Cop', and 'Remembrance Day' in addition to various un-named poems. Also includes two articles written by Leonard for the 'Scotsman' newspaper on the poet James Thompson of Port Glasgow.
Zonder titelLetters from Robert (Bob) Tait to Colin and Gerri Kirkwood. Includes the poems:
'Supermartimplode'
'The Third Ghost Story'
'The Electric Age'
'Sgt. Pepper, Caretaker'
'Trains a Boat & a Plane'
Also includes campaign leaflet for Bob Tait's candidacy for Edinburgh council election, [1970], and two letters, 1969, from an unidentified correspondent called Irene.
Zonder titelLetters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Colin Kirkwood. Also included is a list of books.
Zonder titelThree letters and a Christmas card from Edwin Morgan to Colin Kirkwood. Includes the poems:
'Shadows'
'The Loch Ness Monster'
'and blue toboggans'