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GB 249 OK/8 · Collection · 1969 - 1989

Programme of activities, 1969-1989; recipe book, 1974; programme of events for Overseas Wives' Group, 1973-1976.

University of Strathclyde Women's Club
GB 249 OM/29 · Collection · 1969 - 1972

Published articles on the work of the Centre for Industrial Innovation at the University of Strathclyde by John Busby, the Centre's Director. The Centre opened in 1969.

Busby, John E., b. 1930, Director of Centre for Industrial Innovation, University of Strathclyde
GB 249 BEL · Collection · 1969 - 1984

Items relating to Beltrami's 15-year battle to overturn the conviction of his client, Patrick Meehan, for the murder of Rachel Ross during a burglary in 1969. Beltrami's efforts secured a unique Royal Pardon for Meehan, plus a substantial compensation payment. The collection includes:

  • Incomplete (pages 2-7 only) xerox copy of the Edinburgh High Court indictment against Patrick Connolly Meehan for theft, housebreaking, assault to severe injury, robbery, murder and fraud, 1969;
  • Incomplete copy letter from [Joe Beltrami, Beltrami Dunn & Co] to R.B. Laurie, Secretary, the Law Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, 5 April 1976, seeking an opinion on matters of confidentiality concerning the precognitions of the widow, son and daughter of William McGuiness;
  • Copy letter from [Joe Beltrami, Beltrami Dunn & Co] to the Crown Agent, Crown Office, Edinburgh, 16 September 1976, concerning the Crown's delay in pronouncing the innocence of Meehan's co-suspect in the murder of Rachel Ross, James Griffiths (Griffiths was shot dead by a police marksman in 1969);
  • Xerox copy of the recommendation by D[avid] A.O. Edward Q.C., Edinburgh, that Patrick Meehan should be offered the sum of £47,915 in compensation, 22 December 1983, with annotations by Beltrami;
  • Xerox copy of the cheque for £47,915 issued to Patrick Meehan by H.M. Paymaster General on 8 February 1984, with annotations by Beltrami;
  • Photograph of Patrick Meehan with Joe Beltrami, signing for receipt of his compensation payment in Beltrami's office, 1984, with annotations on the reverse (this image is published on the dust jacket of Beltrami's book, 'A Deadly Innocence');
  • Copy of Joe Beltrami, 'A Deadly Innocence: the Meehan file' (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1989), containing an inscription by Beltrami on the flyleaf.
Beltrami, Joseph, 1932-2015, lawyer
GB 249 OK/38 · Collection · 1969 - 2001

Flier advertising Society, no date; menus, invitation and place cards for annual dinner, 1969-1972; mounted print commemorating sixtieth anniversary of Society, 2001.

Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde Air Squadron
GB 249 OEDA · Collection · 1969-2009
  • early correspondence and papers relating to Nancy Tait’s fact-finding mission regarding asbestos
  • minutes of meetings of the SPAID/OEDA Trustees, annual reports, strategic plans
  • registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
  • information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
  • some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
  • documentation of the different types of information services provided by SPAID / OEDA, among them series relating to occupational and environmental health enquiries; SPAID / OEDA publications and display boards; responses to requests for information from solicitors; and responses to requests for information from the media
  • records relating to SPAID/OEDA's research into asbestos related diseases, mortality statistics, latency periods; also testimony before commissions, consultancy reports
  • SPAID/OEDA's extensive advocacy work over four decades
  • interactions with victims support groups, unions, fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, solicitors and legal scholars
  • conferences and meetings to which Nancy Tait and her organisation contributed or which she attended
  • information files compiled on specific topics
  • series of correspondence and telephone memoranda
  • SPAID/OEDA accounts; also fundraising activities including grant applications
  • some documentation of the creation and running of the Electron Microscope Research Unit
  • instructions and manuals relating to office procedures and information management in the organisation
  • reference library (OEDA/K) including the organisation's collection of scientific papers, deposits and judgements, statutory instruments, DSS claims forms 1969-2007, clusters of press coverage, etc

Further,

  • OEDA collection of printed material; see link below
  • ten series of case files (OEDA CF, see link below)
  • OEDA's copies of the Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers (OEDA CM, see link below)
  • several standalone collections accepted to the OEDA archive during the 1990s, including the research papers of M J Sanders, records of Cancer Prevention Society, Glasgow, and the papers documenting refrigeration management worker W H Knight's compensation claim; see links below
Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
David Morrell papers
GB 249 OM/278 · Collection · 1970 - 1989

Correspondence and papers relating to University administration.

Morrell, David W.J., b. 1933, Registrar, University of Strathclyde
Margaret Bradley papers
GB 249 OM/485 · Collection · c. 1970s - c. 2000s

University of Strathclyde undergraduate student cards for sessions 1976-1977 and 1978-1979; University of Strathclyde jumper; memorandum announcing awards of BA (Hons) Accountancy degrees to students in the School of Business and Administration at the University of Strathclyde; copy of graduation photograph; cutting from an unidentified [company?] publication, containing a photograph of Margaret Bradley and stating her date of joining and her qualification from the University of Strathclyde; Chartered Association of Certified Accountants student registration card; certificate of completion of a course on Computer Applications for the Expanding Business at North Glasgow College; Glasgow North Housing Association staff name badge.

Bradley, Margaret Donnelly, 1944-2023, accountant
Keith Brown papers
GB 249 BRO · Collection · 1970 - 2000

The collection comprises primarily research reports written by Keith Brown, documenting his career at W. Greenwell & Co. during the 1970s and 1980s then at Morgan Stanley from 1988 until 1999.

The collection includes:

  • W. Greenwell & Co (later Greenwell Montagu and Greenwell Montagu Research) research reports and analysis, 1970-1987.
  • Morgan Stanley research reports and analysis, 1988-1999.
  • Speeches and presentations made by Brown throughout the world to conferences, bank management and investors on the UK, European and international banking industry.
  • Written notes from meetings with management. Unpublished.
Brown, Keith Clark, b. 1943, stockbroker and investment banker
GB 249 OF 19 · Collection · 1970 - 2011

Press releases, newsletters, posters, programmes, correspondence and production files, minutes, reports, scripts, audience and usage figures, financial records, photographs.

Strathclyde Theatre Group
GB 249 OM/488 · Collection · 1970-1973
  • Scottish Hotel School (Ross Hall) student scarf
  • University of Strathclyde graduate scarf
Goldsmith, Alistair Lindsay, b. 1952, lecturer at the Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde
Ronald Crawford papers
GB 249 OM/136 · Collection · 1971 - 2004

Two publications by Crawford, 1974, 2004; letter to Crawford from Muriel Spark, 1971.

Crawford, Ronald Lyndsay, b. 1939, Academic Registrar, University of Strathclyde
David Horner papers
GB 249 OM/291 · Collection · 1971 - 1976
  • Lecture notes, tutorial notes and laboratory books for university classes in the following subjects: geography (including topics relating to the British Isles, North Africa and North America); geology; pedology (biogeography); historical geology; geomorphology; statistics; surveying, and economic history
  • News cuttings
  • Notes on the Wulf Electroscope, for a Certificate of Sixth Year Studies (secondary school) course in Physics
Horner, David John, b. 1953, student at University of Strathclyde