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Correspondence and papers from most of Dalton's career. The collection includes:

• papers on Dalton's career and the libel cases brought against him
• correspondence and papers originating from Dalton's roles at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, the Transport and General Workers' Union, the Environment Agency and others
• correspondence with fellow activists, occupational health experts, academics, doctors, solicitors, politicians, trade unionists, campaign groups, asbestos victim support groups and others
• subject files on environmental and occupational health issues, particularly asbestos
• publications by Dalton and letters to the press
• consultancy and expert witness work
• notes and papers from conferences and meetings
• correspondence and papers relating to Dalton's involvement in the production of television and radio programmes on asbestos, together with a series of video recordings and transcripts of documentaries and other programmes collected by Dalton on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health and safety topics.
• press cuttings on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues
• Dalton's library of books, academic papers, reports and other publications on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues

Concerns Michael Ryan’s campaign against workplace stress at the Environment Agency.

Subjects include two medical workers who were mesothelioma sufferers. Also includes Irwin Mirchell newsletter, c. 1998.

Dalton was a community representative on the board of the Environment Agency from 1999 to 2001 when he was fired. The bulk of this series originates from that role.

Correspondence and papers originating from Dalton's interactions with various campaign and support groups. Most of the groups were concerned with asbestos.

Series of files on environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.

Correspondence, reports and notes originating from Dalton's consultancy work, mostly concerning asbestos.

Correspondence between Dalton and fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, scientists, doctors, solicitors and others.

Dalton was Research Fellow in Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) from 1974 to 1978 and subsequently on the editorial board of Hazards magazine, the magazine on health and safety in the workplace produced by the BSSRS. This series comprises papers and correspondence originating from both these roles, including an incomplete run of Hazards magazine.

Series of files on asbestos-related topics. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.

Includes:

• transcript of coroner’s inquest into death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School, 1994
• certificates of air monitoring tests at Plumstead Manor School, 1993
• notes by Dalton of meetings of parents of children at Plumstead Manor School
• press cuttings
• transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ broadcast in 1994
• specification for asbestos removal from Dog Kennel Hill School
• programme and papers from ‘Asbestos and public health’ conference in York, 1984 (includes paper by Dalton)
• report by The Asbestos Institute entitled ‘Ban asbestos zealotry – a gross deception but at what cost to society?’, 1994