Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1998.
Dark blue cover, 21.8 x 15.4 cm.
Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1998.
Dark blue cover, 21.8 x 15.4 cm.
Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1999.
Black cover, 21.8 x 15 cm.
Obituaries of Nancy Tait collected by her colleague and friend Joan Griffiths. Further includes:
Papers relating to honours and awards bestowed on Nancy Tait including:
-'Women of the Year Luncheon', 1987
-MBE, 1996
-Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton, 1999
-Nomination for a Beacon Prize, 2003
-Nationwide Award for voluntary endeavour, 2004 and 2005
-Institution of Occupational Safety and Health Sypol Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005
-'Women of the Year Luncheon', 2006
Papers and correspondence relating to the Honorary Doctorate conferred upon Nancy Tait by the University of Southampton.
Nancy Tait was conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of the University by the University of Southampton on 14 July 1999. Her Citation was read by the Southampton University Public Orator, John Smith, who stated that: "Appearances are deceptive. At first sight, Nancy is everyone's favourite grandmother; but she has a backbone of steel as well as a generous heart."
Papers include:
-correspondence and greetings cards congratulating Nancy Tait on her Honorary Degree from e.g. Jim Fitzpatrick, the Churchill Trust, etc.
-Papers and correspondence relating to the organisation of the Honorary Degree ceremony and associated events e.g. Honorary Graduands' lunch, dinner, programmes for the day, accommodation, details of guests, etc.
-order form for graduation video
-copies of the text of the 'Citation by the Southampton University Public Orator, John Smith' for Nancy Tait
-correspondence between Nancy Tait and the University about writing the citation
-correspondence about and press coverage of Nancy's award
-notes and articles about Nancy Tait's links with Southampton
-original programme for the Congregation Ceremony July 1999 (2 copies)
-press clippings about Nancy's award
-copy of the OEDA Newsletter, Autumn 1998
-folder of photographs of the awards ceremony including: 12 photographs of the day, including a number of Nancy in an academic gown; Negatives from the awards ceremony; copy of the official graduation photograph of Nancy Tait and her guests
-information pack about the University of Southampton
-video tape of the ceremony
-The hood of Nancy Tait's graduation gown: red and light blue
Documentation relating to Nancy Tait's:
Tait also won a fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in 1976 and the Andrew Lees Memorial Award, 2001, for fighting "a lonely battle with extraordinary persistence and grace to bring about a Europe-wide ban on asbestos". Andrew Lees (1949-1994) was a former Friends of the Earth Campaigns Director.
In 1987 Tait was invited to the 'Women of the Year Luncheon'.
In chronological order. Includes:
SPAID / OEDA leaflets and fliers.
Correspondence and papers re entries for the organisation in relevant directories. In alphabetical order by name of directory or organisation compiling it.
Front matter includes
Poster visualising the organisation's areas of enduring interest: fellowship, legislation, fair compensation, protection for workers, an asbestos-free environment, fund raising.
The poster's title line is 'Can we help you?'.
A single spiral bound notebook with handwritten notes inside, in Nancy Tait's handwriting.
Notes cover topics such as: case details; regulations; research into fibres; political questions; monitoring of asbestos; and general research notes.
2 personal letters to Nancy Tait:
-letter from 'Kitty', discussing family matters, 16/12/97
-letter from 'Anne and Ted', discussing family matters, Christmas 1999
There is no dedicated series of minutes and associated papers, suggesting that much of the organisation's executive decision-making was effectively oral (i.e. that some records were not created in the first place).
Even where executive records were generated, they were not systematically kept. During the SPAID period (1978-1995) and in particular until c.1991, records of trustee meetings and written reports on the organisation's activities survive mainly as part of correspondence with a trustee. After OEDA formally took over from SPAID in January 1996, Management Committee meetings were convened on a fairly regular basis. Nevertheless, their documentation did not take the form of a continuous dedicated series of minutes of management meetings, nor are there series of management correspondence or correspondence with the OEDA chairperson.
The surviving documentation shows that earlier names for SPAID were 'Trust for Asbestos Welfare Research and Control' (TAWRC) and 'Asbestos Induced Diseases Society' (AIDS). Proposals for the name of the new organisation OEDA included 'Occupational Diseases Association' (ODA), 'Industrial Diseases of the Environment Association' (IDEA) and 'Investigation of Industrial Diseases of the Environment Association' (IIDEA).
Much corporate strategic information can be found in the organisation's fundraising records, in particular grant applications with the London Boroughs Grants Unit (OEDA/J/2/1) and the National Lottery Charities Board (OEDA/J/2/2/5).
Interactions with the organisation's trustee. Also includes correspondence with the Charity Commission.
In reverse chronological order. Includes