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Signed by Professor J.P. Arbuthnott, Principal of the University of Strathclyde, and Professor R. Baykal, Rector of Istanbul Technical University.

To provide for the exchange of staff, scholars, students, academic information and materials.

Signed by Professor Dr. Le Viet Hung, Rector of Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Vietnam, 13 December 2009, and Professor Jim McDonald, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, 14 January 2010.

To establish collaboration in joint research activities, exchanges of academic staff, students and researchers and course delivery.

Signed by Tim Holt, Chief Executive of the Institute of Photonics, and Dr. Sun Ho Kim, President of the Korea Photoncis Technology institute, and witnessed by Kang Un-Tae, Mayor of Gwangju City.

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.

Extracts from Employer's Annual Return 1983-1995, documenting SPAID staff in that period.

• annotated typescript (possibly by SPAID / OEDA electron microscope technician Lawrie Hawkins) 'Investigation of lung tissue by electron microscopy for asbestos fibres, marked 'LH' and 'pre-2000'
• handwritten notes by Nancy Tait on 'Preparation of lung samples'; also instruction for Mr L Hawkins and Mrs Joan Lemmon, who started as SPAID electron microscopist in the spring of 1990, taking over from J B Kirkham
• typescript 'Calculation of EM factor'
• some literature on microscopy and fibre counting, including typescript of Cherrie et al. (1987) 'Comparison of optical and electron microscopy for evaluating airborne asbestos' and of summary of A M Johnston (1985) 'A review of present-day automated fibre counting instruments and some future proposals'

Further includes SPAID leaflet c. 1985 outlining theory (and "the facts") of risk assessment, reproducing Richard Doll's arguments on the asbestos percentage in brake drum dust, 1985, and SPAID's comments on Doll's position; followed by two recent mesothelioma cases.

Correspondence and papers re benefits leaflets and forms, the majority issued by DHSS / DSS / DWP.

The Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) separated during 1988 to form two departments, one of which was the Department of Social Security (DSS). In 2001, the DSS was largely replaced by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), with the other responsibilities of the department assumed by the Treasury and the Ministry for Defence.

Excerpts from 'Hansard' and typescript Parliamentary Questions, usually annotated and/or marked.

Originally in multiple duplicates.

Photocopy of transcript (incomplete) of direct & cross examination Dr Kevin Browne (13 May 1987), in Sisters of St Mary et al. vs AAER Sprayed Insulation et al., State of Wisconsin, Circuit Court, Dane County.

Complete up to and including p. 117.

Includes

• Nancy Tait's notes on the deposition
• correspondence between Nancy Tait and Michael O'Connor, legal Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1994
• much annotated copy of transcripts of the depositions on 4, 5 and 6 October 1994

• printout of digital inventory of medical reports, A[...]-D[...], 2005, capturing case number, surname, date of medical report, author of report, diagnosis (pleural plaques, D1, D3, D8, D9)
• typescript inventory of medical reports A[...]-L[...], c.1991, capturing full name, doctor's name, date of report, summary of opinion, smoker, comments
• copy of medical glossary notes (Blesovky's syndrome, Denver shunt, fibrosis), extract from a report by Dr Robin Rudd on the risk following pleural plaques
• correspondence and papers on access to medical records and data protection
• specimen medical reports

Recording of White Lung Association ‘We have a right to breath’.