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Recording of Meridian TV ‘Focus on asbestos’, transmitted 17 September 2002.

Recording of Carlton Television programme ‘Current affairs: the fatal fibre’. This was a Wash House Films Production and received an award from the Royal Television Society at the Regional Centres Awards 2003. Includes a covering letter and a note from Nancy Tait.

Guides, briefings, leaflets and flyers, among them

• 'Death due to asbestos: a guide to compensation' (2005)
• 'No win no fee agreements: a patient's guide' (2004)
• ‘Asbestos update – House of Lord’s decision 16 May 2002’ (c.2002)
• 'A guide to experts for writing reports and giving evidence following the Woolf reforms' (c.1999)

Copy of brochure written by Carolynne Radcliffe, training consultant & welfare benefits advisor.

Annotated copies of the Rowley Ashworth Solicitors’ annual review, 1998-2007.

Incomplete set: 1999 and 2000 are missing.

Legal fact sheets on a range of occupational diseases, by Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors. Also includes copy of 'Asbestos seminar: the patient killer' (presentation by Michael Imperato of RJW Solicitors).

Copy of typescript 'Asbestos in the community: proposals to protects workers and the public' (July 1985).

Covering correspondence re thesis project of Caroline C Bamu, biological science student at Queen Mary & Westfield College, London. Bamu completed a (?bachelor) thesis on epidemiology of mesothelioma in England and Wales, under the supervision of Professor R C Tinsley.

Includes a copy of the thesis

Correspondence re thesis project of T ('Tim') C Dowling, biological science student at Queen Mary College, London. Dowling completed a (?bachelor) thesis on epidemiology of mesothelioma in England and Wales, 1986-1987.

Includes

• correspondence re access to case study material and re access to death certificates
• copy of Dowling's thesis

Originally included photocopies of Nancy Tait's presentation (with Dr Vernon J Harvey) ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, presented at the Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983; also photocopies of papers re Homerton Hospital mesothelioma study. c.1983-1986. See links below.

• copy of P G Harries’ thesis, submitted for Degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of London
• SPAID notes and excerpts (several hands) resulting from mining the thesis, c.1985
  -original copy of P G Harries' thesis

Peter Gordon Harries, 1931-2006, assistant medical officer in Devonport Dockyard from 1964, Surgeon Commander, Royal Navy, 1966-1972. Recipient of the Rene Barthe International Occupational Health Prize, 1972.

Photocopy of typescript report (Report number UB 43/84/41), Property Services Agency (PSA).

The PSA was an agency of the United Kingdom government 1972-1993, providing, equipping and maintaining a wide range of buildings and installations for government departments and the armed services, as well as other bodies.

Copies of 'Asbestos: international bulletin', published by the Asbestos Institute, Montreal.

Incomplete set.

• covering correspondence
• photocopy (unmarked) of Claude Barbeau & R L Ledoux (1979) ‘Short course in mineralogical techniques of asbestos determination’ (Toronto Mineralogical Association of Canada, Québec)

• photocopy of 'Amianto floccato e altri materiali a base d'amianto debolment agglomerato (amianto DA)’ (Commissione federale di coordinamento per la sicurezza sul lavoro, Direttive No 6503, Edizione 1.91)
• copy of ‘La substitution de l’amiante en Suisse’ (Office fédéral de l'environnement, des forêts et du paysage, Berne: 1989)
• copy of ‘Amianto e ambiente di lavoro: punto della situazione e previsioni’ (Rivista svizzera sulla sicurezza nel lavoro, No 149: 1988)
• copy of 'Eternit: inquinamento e potere: una multinazionale dell'amianto' (Partita Socialista dei Lavoratori, Commissione Ecologia e Salute, Robert Lochhead: 1983)
• photocopies of internal circular of the Swiss railway, 1988, and of ordinances 1960 and 1986

Most likely this material came to OEDA in conjunction with the international meeting 'Convegno Internazionale Bastamianto', 17-18 April 1993, Milan, Italy, where Nancy Tait was an invited speaker. See link below.

Nancy Tait's office diaries for the year 1993.

Grey cover, 21.5 x 15 cm.
Black cover with gilt edge, 15.2 x 8 cm.