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Documentation relating to Nancy Tait's:

• MBE (1996); includes a copy of ‘ACADemy: the journal of ACAD – TICA Asbestos Control and Abatement Division’, issue 10 (winter 1996-1997), containing a 2-page article honouring Nancy Tait's achievements
• nomination for a Beacon Prize 2003 in the category lifetime achievement, in which Nancy Tait was awarded a high commendation
• Nationwide award for voluntary endeavour 2004 and 2005
• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Sypol Lifetime Achievement Award, 16 November 2005; the award honours individuals who have furthered the status and practice of occupational health and safety
• correspondence and papers re Tait being selected as a woman of achievement by a member of the Nominating Council of the Woman of the Year Lunch, 2006

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:

• press coverage relating to Nancy Tait's award of a Winston Churchill scholarship and the publication of Tait's 'Asbestos kills' (1976)
• articles in 'Health and safety at work', written chiefly by Alex Crawford, a future chairman of SPAID
• correspondence with Jacky Steemson, editor of 'The safety representative' (a monthly of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA), re her interview with Nancy Tait in August 1985 and resulting article in the November issue of the magazine
• article on the Cancer Prevention Society (CPS), Glasgow, of which Tait was one of the directors
• copy from 'Occupational safety & health' (August 1988) featuring Tait and others in a photographic view of the 1988 RoSPA International Safety & Health Exhibition
• copies of 'The safety representative' (March and April 1989) with a two part article ('Fatal fibre') by Margaret Hamilton
• article on the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU) in the magazine 'Microscopy news' (March 1994) by Alex Crawford (at the time the laboratory news editor of the magazine)
• correspondence re an article on the EMU in the TUUT Charitable Trust newsletter, September 2001
• copy of article in 'Axis magazine', October 2003
• copy of special issue of 'International journal of occupational and environmental health' vol 9.3 (July/September 2003) on 'The asbestos war'; this included an article on the emergence of victim support groups, by international anti-asbestos campaigner Laurie Kazan-Allen

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

• listing of all directories
• sample texts describing the organisation
  Descriptions shifted over time and varied with the focus of the directory and the permitted length of the entry. Typical change requests concerned the organisation's name (from SPAID to OEDA in January 1996), Nancy Tait's epithets (MBE, Dr), and shifts in organisational activity caused by fluctuations of funding, such as e.g. the closure of the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU) after OEDA lost its main source of funding in 2003.

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

In reverse chronological order. Includes

• photocopy of communication from the Greater London Council (GLC), 29 July 1983, informing Nancy Tait that the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee of the Council resolved to make SPAID a grant of up to £31,365.
• reports to the trustees, 11 November 1981, 14 July 1982 and October 1983
• agenda and papers for meeting of trustees, 15 November 1979
• minutes of a meeting of trustees, 25 October 1978
• drafts and final version of the deed of trust

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Lord Avebury. Includes some case information.

English politician Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (1928-2016) served as a SPAID trustee from 1978 to the end of 1989.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Edward Beckett.

Beckett was one of Nancy Tait's earliest supporters in her quest to find answers regarding the death of her husband and regarding the health risks associated with asbestos. At the time Beckett was the secretary of the Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society, originally founded to help working class Post Office employees when conventional medical insurance was not widely affordable.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Major General H A Lascelles.

Henry Anthony Lascelles (1912-2000) was director-general of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 1967-1980.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Lord Plant of Benenden.

Cyril Thomas Howe Plant, Baron Plant, CBE (1910-1986) was a British trade unionist.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Ralph Watson.

Mainly tables and graphs visualising the organisation's performance 1988-1995.

Trustee correspondence and papers (occasionally also minutes of SPAID Trustee meetings), in reverse chronological order.
Includes:

• timeline early SPAID history, 1985
• occasional reports to trustees
• compilation of compensation recovered for SPAID clients through the services of Field Fisher Waterhouse, solicitors, by the end of 1984. This amounted to over £1.5m
• copy of 'Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society 80th Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 December 1986', with an obituary for Lord Plant of Benenden, SPAID trustee; Plant had died suddenly while on holiday in France in August 1986
  -apologies from trustees who cannot attend meetings
  -correspondence with Trustees about arrangements for meetings
  -some copies of minutes of Trustee meetings
  -correspondence about the Trust Deed
  -SPAID activity plans
  -balance sheets and budget information
  -copies of correspondence with Lord Avebury
  -some SPAID meetings papers, 1992-1993

Correspondence and papers (minutes of meetings of trustees and extensive associated papers), addressed to trustee Laurie Horam. Includes photocopy of OEDA Memorandum & Articles of Association, also copy of a report on SPAID by consultants Pauline Bibby and Michael Butterfield, both panel members of the Charities Effectiveness Review Trust (CERT), 1991.

Lawrence Brian Horam (b. 1941) was E Beckett's successor as secretary to the Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society (POCSSS).