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Colour photographs of Nancy Tait celebrating with her fellow asbestos critics at St Barnabas, London, ?2005.

Correspondence and papers, among them press coverage re Prof. John Bridle (considered Britain's leading practical expert on asbestos), Asbestos Watchdog (the company set up by Bridle to give honest advice on asbestos), and scientist Dr John Hoskins, whose views on asbestos received support through Christopher Bookers articles.

Includes

• background research on Lord Black of Crossharbour who put together the Hollinger group, which owned the Daily Telegraph
• copy of draft proposal (by the Health & Safety Commission) for a domestic ban on asbestos, 1999

This collection comprises items relating to the formation and running of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. The bulk of the records are minutes of the Council and the boards and committees of the College.

• copy of ‘UK asbestos – the definitive guide’ (2004), produced by a working party under chairmanship of Julian Lowe of Norwich Union
• Nancy Tait's notes on the text and correspondence with Rodney Nelson Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse

The guide discusses the estimated future cost to the UK insurance industry of asbestos-related claims (£4-£10 billion), November 2004. Nelson-Jones suspected that the insurance industry exaggerated these costs.

In reverse chronological order:

• copy of email, informing Geoffrey Tweedale of John Todd's death in 2004. In the 1970s, Todd had been a prominent representative of the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union
• papers and correspondence 1974-1978. Includes copies of correspondence between Todd and the Health & Safety Executive, as well as of the certificate for the asbestosis-related death of Angus Cairns, insulating engineer, November 1975
• copy of Flynn's ‘Asbestos murders’ (1974), a series of articles in The Socialist Worker indicting the Scottish lagging industry
• copy of the pamphlet version of 'Asbestos murders’, published as ‘Asbestos: the dust that kills in the name of profit’ (London, 1974)
• Flynn's background research for 'Asbestos murders': lists of "certified dead from asbestosis" and "certified receiving pension"; transcripts of Flynn's conversations with Glasgow laggers and their union representatives; some correspondence, typescript notes of a meeting with laggers Arthur Rhodie, Jim Gegathy and John Todd, 14 November 1973
• papers including press coverage 1967-1974

Photographs and albums collated by George Wyllie. Comprises photographs of his sculptures, photographs collated for research, and personal photographs.

Exhibition catalogues, press releases, press cuttings, correspondence, project notes, sketches, leaflets and postcards relating to several of Wyllie's projects.

Correspondents include several Scottish writers and poets.

According to an early invitation, SPAID Fellowship started out as an initiative aiming to ensure that the industrially disabled were not forgotten in the International Year of Disabled People (1981).

The SPAID Fellowship was understood as the 'Supporters Club' for the organisation. People disabled by industry would meet those interested to help them and to prevent further disease. SPAID Fellowship developed around St Barnabas Church, Bethnal Green, London. Following a get-together at the home of Joan Piccolo of Rainham, Essex, in February 1981, and an inaugural occasion at St Barnabas in June, meetings were expected to take place every first Saturday of the month from 2-4 pm.

Later on SPAID Fellowship developed also at Merseyside.

Joan Piccolo, whose husband had died of an asbestos-related disease, campaigned as part of the Women Against the Dust group; see 'Morning Star', 1 April 1976.

Includes reports of Staff Club president and honorary treasurer and financial statements.