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Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.

• a little correspondence and papers 1998-2002, covering the asbestos legacy of the World Trade Center and the WTO ruling that the French government's ban on asbestos is justified
• unmarked copy of World Trade Organisation (18 September 2000) ‘European communities – measures affecting asbestos and asbestos-containing products – report of the panel – addendum’
• partially annotated copy of World Health Organisation (18 September 2000) ‘European communities – measures affecting asbestos and asbestos-containing products – report of the panel’
• World Trade Organisation (1998) ‘Environmental health criteria for chrysotile asbestos’ (EHC 203: Chrysotile Asbestos)

Papers relating to the World symposium on asbestos, May 1982. Includes

• copy of 'Asbestos: control or ban? Synthesis of the world symposium on asbestos' (Canadian Asbestos Information Centre, May 1984)
• conference program
• copies of papers by Jean Bignon, Andrew M Pye, John C Wagner, Peter W Preuss, William J Hunter, Philip E Enterline, Malcom Ross and William J Simpson
• leaflets and booklets by Geological Survey, Canada; the Government of Quebec; La Société Minéralogique de la Région de l'Amiante

Also membership application form (2 copies).

Internal memorandum from Dalton, Transport & General Workers Union, on a women’s health and safety at work reading list. Encloses ‘Occupational safety and health concerns of Canadian women’ by Karen Messing.

Brochures, newscutting and photograph showing wartime 'W.I.N.S.' factory wear. Manufactured by W. Marshall & Sons, Ltd Glasgow. See OM/86/17/2.

• Scottish College of Commerce tie in navy blue polyester (Terylene), featuring diagonal stripes of green and gold and a flock pattern of the Scottish College of Commerce crest embroidered in green, white and gold
• Receipt issued by the University of Strathclyde for the sum of £5 in evening class fees for session 1964-1965, dated 30 September 1964

• Letter to David [Gee] from [Mrs] Maura Carmichael, 24 January 1998. Enclosing her husband's 'very old student work sheets for the old boys museum - if going ahead';
• Curriculum Vitae of William D. Carmichael;
• Notes of lectures on hotel accounting and control, wine and other subjects attended by William Carmichael at the Scottish Hotel School, plus accounting exercises completed by William Carmichael.

Nancy Tait’s extensive typescript comments on a draft of Nicholas Wikeley's book on the evolution of compensation for victims of asbestos-related disease in the UK. Also some related correspondence (including Dr P Dewis’ response on seeing a draft), and copy of typescript draft of the book.

• reprint and photocopy of typescript, N J Wikeley (1988) ‘Social security adjudication and occupational lung diseases’, in ‘Industrial law journal’ 17.2 (June): 92-104
• photocopy, N J Wikeley (1992) ‘Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC’, in ‘American journal of industrial medicine’ 22: 449-454
• photocopy of typescript, N J Wikeley (n. d.) ‘Historical perspectives in occupational medicine: dust levels in British asbestos factories in the 1930s’
• photocopy, N J Wikeley (1992) ‘The Asbestos Regulations 1931: a licence to kill?’, in ‘Journal of law and society’ (19.3 (Autumn): 365-378
• typescript Anthony Seaton (n.d.), review of N J Wikeley (1993) ‘Compensation for industrial disease’ (1993)
• marked photocopy, N J Wikeley and Bruce Corkill (1995) ‘Accident compensation and asbestos-related disease in New Zealand’, in ‘Journal of personal injury litigation’
• photocopy of typescript, N J Wikeley (1997) ‘Asbestos in the shipyards: dust, disease and drafting regulations’ (Inaugural lecture, 4 February); includes copy sequence of slides
• typescript, N J Wikeley (1997) ‘Compensation for asbestos-related disease under the UK industrial injuries scheme’ (presented at the 3rd international congress on workplace injuries, Munich, March)
• offprint, N J Wikeley (1997) ‘Turner & Newall: early organizational responses to litigation risk’, in ‘Journal of law and society’ 24.2 (June): 252-273
• offprint, J Steele and N J Wikeley (1997) ‘Cases: dust on the streets and liability for environmental cancers’, in ‘Modern law review’ 60: 265-276
• photocopy, N J Wikeley (1998) ‘The first common law claim for asbestosis: Kelly v. Turner & Newal Ltd (1950)', in ‘Journal of personal injury litigation’ 3:197-210

Correspondence and papers. The contact between Nancy Tait and the White Lung Association (WLA) dates back to at least 1984 and was renewed at the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Correspondence and papers on white asbestos hazards. In response to articles by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph and John Bridle in The Safety and Health Practitioner claiming white asbestos is harmless. Includes:

• scientific papers on chrysotile asbestos, 1996-2001
• letter by Dalton to The Sunday Telegraph
• press cuttings

Mainly correspondence (with Kathy Gaffney), including with West Midlands Health and Safety Campaign Centre (HASAC) which closed in 2000.

Correspondence chiefly with Thomas ('Tommy') Gorman of West Dunbartonshire Council, Welfare Rights Representation Unit. Includes

• correspondence and papers re Clydebank Asbestos Group (CAG)
• CAG workers’ memorial day 2007 & announcement of CAG international conference 2007
• copies of CAG ‘Asbestos update’ (2003-2006, incomplete set)
• documentation re Convention of the Short Life Working Group on Asbestos (COSLA) and copy of the COSLA report, June 2002
• copy draft Gorman (1998) ‘Women, the most forgotten victims’
• photocopy Gorman (1997) ’A case study of the settlement process’ ('Sourcebook on asbestos diseases' vol 15: 354-373)

Correspondence, drafts, literature re an OEDA leaflet on solvents. Started c.1994, the task was assigned to new staff member Wendy Pendle on 1 September 1995.