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Asbestos
GB 249 DAL/8 · Series · 1898 - 2003
Part of Alan Dalton papers

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.

Asbestos ban campaign

Relates to Nancy Tait's efforts to bring about and implement a prohibition on the importation, manufacture, use and sale of asbestos-containing products in the UK.

Elsewhere in the archive there is documentation of Nancy Tait's involvement in the foundation of 'Ban Asbestos' in Strasbourg on 14 June 1991, at the initiative of the Green Group of Members of the European Parliament. See http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/oeda-maureen-wards-reference-files-on-key-actions

GB 249 FLYNN/3 · Series · 1953-2005
Part of Laurie Flynn papers on the asbestos industry

During his period as an industrial journalist for the 'Socialist Worker', 1972-1978, Flynn worked closely with activists from the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union and with Tom Woolf and John Pickering, both of them W H Thomson solicitors covering lawsuits against Central Asbestos in Bermondsey, London, and Acre Mill in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire (the latter not much documented here).

GB 249 FLYNN/2 · Series · 1934-2005
Part of Laurie Flynn papers on the asbestos industry

Flynn's investigations of occupational & environmental health issues brought him in close contact with American researchers, among them environmental consultants and, in particular, litigators. An extensive exchange of information and documentation ensued. This turned up unusually rich seams of corporate information on asbestos, made available under rules of discovery and specifically through depositions of key witnesses.

Asia
GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · [after 1757] - [1912]

Maps of Asia.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
Australasia
GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · No date

Reproductions of photographs of buildings in Australasia.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
Australia
GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · 1874 - [1912]; no date

Maps and photographs of Australia.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner