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In roughly chronological order, starting with Nancy Tait's interactions with and concerning the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC).

Tait's asbestos research began as a quest for convincing answers regarding the death of her husband William Ashton Tait, who died of mesothelioma in 1968.

Comparatively little material from the early years (1969-1978) of Tait's investigations survives. Gaps include:

• Tait's systematic study, begun in 1972, of the state of knowledge regarding the health risks of asbestos, resulting in her publication of 'Asbestos kills' (1976)
• Tait's application for the Churchill fellowship, awarded to her early in 1976, and correspondence relating to her extensive travels in Europe in 1976
• growing out of this, correspondence and papers documenting Tait's work with the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) from 1977; much of this, including Nancy Tait's correspondence with Petra Kelly 1976-1981, can be consulted in the Petra Kelly Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin

From the early 1980s, Nancy Tait maintained very active contacts with a number of solicitors and legal scholars, discussing legal technicalities, news and developments. The resulting body of correspondence mostly accumulated by surname and/or name of law firm and occasionally by the topic under discussion.

For a separate series of solicitors' correspondence, mainly concerning enquiries, see the link below.

Various photographs, negatives, and other images relating to the functions of the SPAID/OEDA organisation.
Photographs are divided into the following sub-series:
-Asbestos Discoveries
-Science and Research
-Individuals
-Events
-Other

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).

Correspondence (1987-2004) and papers relating to compensation claims against the Johns-Manville Corporation / the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust (Manville Trust). Includes papers relating to Johns Manville filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1982.

The Manville Trust was established in 1988 to resolve all further asbestos personal injury claims resulting from exposure to asbestos and asbestos containing products mined or manufactured by the Johns-Manville Corporation and its affiliated entities.

Fairchild v. Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd is a leading case on causation in English tort law. It concerned malignant mesothelioma and addressed the causation issues arising if there has been exposure by two or more employers, or if there are periods of self-employment where exposure took place.

In February 2001 the High Court ruled that the widow of Arthur Fairchild, who died of mesothelioma in 1996, could not prove which employer Mr Fairchild was working for when he contracted the illness. The decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal in December 2001. In their judgement in May 2002 the House of Lords set aside existing causation principles and imposed liability upon each exposing employer despite the inability of the victim to demonstrate a causal link between exposure and injury.

• (OEDA/K/8/1) ‘Asbestos – a versatile killer’ | BBC Radio Sheffield Jan ‘78’
• (OEDA/K/8/2) ‘Asbestos – a versatile killer’ Pleural Tuesday / Langer part keep p.69’
• (OEDA/K/8/3) ‘SANDY – SF | Selikoff | Pickering’ and ‘Tuesday p.m.’
• (OEDA/K/8/4) ‘Langer | Notes 69’ / ‘Holstein to p.78 | Fischbein 72’
• (OEDA/K/8/5) ‘Thurs p.m. Mock Trial | 16.12.82’ and ‘Thurs p.m. 16th 12.82’
• (OEDA/K/8/6) ‘Mock trial 1’ / ‘Mock trial 2’
• (OEDA/K/8/7) ‘Selikoff Hammond & ?Lung Function | Tuesday am’ / ‘Tuesday a.m.’
• (OEDA/K/8/8) ‘to 96 p.m. Wed?Ener. &?Dis’ and ‘89 Wed p.m.’
• (OEDA/K/8/9) ‘?Rabin | meso | p.78 |?Lillis’
• (OEDA/K/8/10)‘? – working’