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According to an early invitation, SPAID Fellowship started out as an initiative aiming to ensure that the industrially disabled were not forgotten in the International Year of Disabled People (1981).

The SPAID Fellowship was understood as the 'Supporters Club' for the organisation. People disabled by industry would meet those interested to help them and to prevent further disease. SPAID Fellowship developed around St Barnabas Church, Bethnal Green, London. Following a get-together at the home of Joan Piccolo of Rainham, Essex, in February 1981, and an inaugural occasion at St Barnabas in June, meetings were expected to take place every first Saturday of the month from 2-4 pm.

Later on SPAID Fellowship developed also at Merseyside.

Joan Piccolo, whose husband had died of an asbestos-related disease, campaigned as part of the Women Against the Dust group; see 'Morning Star', 1 April 1976.

Copies of outgoing correspondence in a series of originally 82 volumes, in chronological order.
Correspondence topics cover many of SPAID/OEDA's functions such as advocacy, networking and administrative communications however a large proportion of the correspondence is related to cases of asbestosis and compensation claims.

Incomplete. The following 35 volumes are missing:

• vol 1 (? to September 1979)
• vols 5-26 (October 1981 to April 1988)
• vols 34-45 (May 1990 to January 1993)

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.

• (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’