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Predominantly papers including

• copy of Disability Alliance (1988) 'Severe disablement allowance: hard to claim, impossible to live on'
• papers relating to the review of attendance allowance 1983-1984
• copies of an exchange between Peter Townsend (chairperson of the Disability Alliance) and representatives of federations for the blind, 1983
• SPAID commentary on Command Paper 8420 'Reform of the Industrial Injuries Scheme', March 1982
• typescript 'Comments and recommendations regarding an employment policy for the disabled' and copy of Manpower Services Commission (1981) 'Review of the quota scheme for the employment of disabled people: a report' (1981)
• copies of correspondence between Nancy Tait and speakers at a fringe meeting in Llandudno, September 1981
• typescript Disability Alliance (1980) 'How many disabled people are there?'
• copy of DHSS discussion document (February 1980) 'Industrial injuries compensation'
• typescript Disability Alliance (1978) 'Memorandum to the DHSS about the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury' [Pearson Commission]
• listing of Disability Alliance publications held in SPAID's Cuffley office

Papers and correspondence with White Lung Association (WLA), 1984-1991 and 1994-2000. From 1996 Mrs Barbara Zeluck is the main correspondent. Includes

• WLA asbestos update, May 1995 to September 1998 (incomplete set)
• opinion of Judge Becker, in Georgine v. Amchem Prod Inc, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (5 October 1996)
• WLA leaflet [1995] 'Differences between British and US compensation systems'
  Also research papers, among them:
• H Vinke and T Wilthagen [1994] 'The non-mobilization of law: asbestos victims in the Netherlands'
• L C Oliver et al. (1991) 'Asbestos-related disease in public school custodians'
• Paul W MacAvoy (January 1982) ‘Working paper series C: the economic consequences of asbestos-related disease’

Barbara Zeluck (née Adler, 1923-2010) was an American socialist, occupational health and safety campaigner, and civil rights activist.

Correspondence discussing provisional damages, conditional fees and access to justice. Includes

• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers' (APIL) responses to The Lord Chancellor's 1998 Consultation Paper 'Access to justice with conditional fees', and copy of the text in question
• SPAID summary of what the then new conditional fee rules involve, 1995
• sample provisional fees agreement Field Fisher Waterhouse and copy of the firm's client guide on provisional fees
• photocopy of draft statutory instrument ‘Conditional fee agreement order' (1995)
• correspondence with several law firms, among them Gadsby Wicks Solicitors (Chelmsford), Field Fisher Waterhouse and Rowley Ashworth, re Law Commission Consultation Paper on provisional damages (1992) and re conditional fees.
• extract from the Law Commission's 1992 Consultation Paper on provisional damages (presumably 'Structured settlements and interim and provisional damages', Consultation Paper No 125)

Correspondence and press coverage on the London underground and asbestos dust, 1982-2000. Includes photocopy of House of Commons ‘Written answers, London Tube Railways (Asbestos Lining) (1932)’.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage) arising from articles by Christopher Booker, in particular the article in The Sunday Telegraph, 17 March 2002, discussing the debate on health & safety at work (especially asbestos) in the House of Commons, 14 March 2002. Includes:

• OEDA letters/faxes to the editor of The Sunday Telegraph
• letter to Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
• section with copies of Booker's articles re asbestos, January-October 2002

Indicates that OEDA at that stage had a website.

Set of industry brochures on construction materials and occasional correspondence. Includes copies of 'CEM-FIL news' spring 1980 to spring 1983 (incomplete set). Further includes brochures on asbestos encapsulation material Firecheck.

Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings), 1982-2005, with some earlier material (1973-1979).

Correspondents include

• eminent scientist Prof Irving Selikoff, Dr Andrew Churg and environmental consultant Barry Castleman
• lawyers, among them from Armstrong, Gordon, Mitchell & Damiani, Cleveland; Jane B Cantor of Garruto Cantor Trial Lawyers, NJ; Patrick Guilfoyle, Washington; Leonard C Jacque of Jacque Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit; Michael O’Connor; Peters & Peters, Santa Monica; Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina; Speights & Runyan, Attorneys at Law, South Carolina; Wallace & Graham, North Caroina; and Marc P Weingarten of Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia
• also Dwight E Brown of Asbestos Hazards Programs
• writer Paul Brodeur

Includes

• copy of documents relating to the Ahearn class action: US District Court, Eastern District of Texas [c.1993] 'Overview of and questions & answers on the global settlement agreement and the Ahearn class action'; copy of notice of class action [c.1994] Gerald Ahearn et al. v. Fibreboard Corporation et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division; and copy of notice of pendency of defendant class action [etc.], Continental Casualty Company et al. v. Daniel Herman Rudd Jr. et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
• photocopy of court summons Beatrice Angio v. Celotex Corporation (May 1983)
• magazine articles and press cuttings, including re houses in Laguna Beach and Malibu being spared by recent fires in California, in part due to the use of asbestos tiles, in part due to substituting ice plants for the native sagebrush
• conference information (participants lists) for 'Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres', Lyon, France, 25-27 September 1979

Continues exchanges begun 1975-1977; see link below.

In roughly chronological order, starting with Nancy Tait's interactions with and concerning the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC).

Tait's asbestos research began as a quest for convincing answers regarding the death of her husband William Ashton Tait, who died of mesothelioma in 1968.

Comparatively little material from the early years (1969-1978) of Tait's investigations survives. Gaps include:

• Tait's systematic study, begun in 1972, of the state of knowledge regarding the health risks of asbestos, resulting in her publication of 'Asbestos kills' (1976)
• Tait's application for the Churchill fellowship, awarded to her early in 1976, and correspondence relating to her extensive travels in Europe in 1976
• growing out of this, correspondence and papers documenting Tait's work with the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) from 1977; much of this, including Nancy Tait's correspondence with Petra Kelly 1976-1981, can be consulted in the Petra Kelly Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin

• correspondence with June Freeman, 1994-2001
• photocopies of June Freeman's correspondence and papers arising from the death of her son Simon, 1992-1994; includes a copy of Simon Freeman's postmortem report

June Freeman's son died in November 1992, following solvent exposure at work. She sued his employer and campaigned for better protection of workers from solvents.

Papers and correspondence. Correspondence is with Sylvia Collier, BBC South. Papers document SPAID's pioneering role in warning of the mesothelioma epidemic ahead, long before the Health & Safety Executive's joint press announcement (with Julian Peto) on 3 March 1995 that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production.

Correspondence with GMBATU Health & Safety officers (in particular David Gee), and papers. Includes:

• questionnaire for survey of health hazards and chemical substances in the food industry 1986
• typescript summarising GMBATU's take on R Doll & J Peto (1985) ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos - the risk of asbestos in buildings’ (Doll/Peto Report)
• typescript summarising GMBATU's view of the consultative document (1985) ‘Control of asbestos at work: draft regulations and draft approved code of practice’
• typescript article ‘How self-regulation fails to protect workers – the asbestos story’ (1984)
• GMBATU (1984) ‘Progress report on fibrous dust campaign 1980-1984’
• drafts of HSE leaflet on asbestos brake linings, 1984
• draft GMBATU guide (1984) ‘The extent and characteristics of asbestos diseases – a guide for doctors, solicitors, union officials & exposed workers’ (1984)
• draft GMBATU 'TIE pamphlet', 1984; TIE being thermal insulation engineers, also known as laggers
• typescript GMBATU (1984) 'Draft TUC leaflet on asbestos'
• press coverage
• a little case correspondence

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to December 2000. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to December 1997. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Memoranda of outgoing telephone calls, January to April 1992. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Correspondence and papers re the marathon appeal 1988, which netted just over £2900.

The marathon took place on Sunday 17 April 1988.