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Correspondence with Kerry Dukes, including correspondence re the OEDA Northamptonshire Support Group, 1996-c.2000, and re Ms Dukes subsequent activities.

Includes table of Northants cases with contact information, OEDA case number etc.

Kerry Dukes is the daughter of Wayne Dukes, who died of an asbestos-related disease in October 1996. She set up the OEDA Northants support group in 1996 and joined the OEDA Management Committee in 1999.

Correspondence (chiefly with lawyers) and papers (including news coverage and OEDA updates) re the appeals against the High Court judgement in Fairchild v. Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd, 1 February 2001.

Includes

• student paper (anonymised) ‘Is Fairchild fair?’, 2003
• opinions of the Lords of Appeal, May 2002
• transcripts of proceedings in the House of Lords 7-9 May 2002
• copy of joint medical report on Arthur Eric Fairchild (d.1996) by Dr R M Rudd and Dr J Moore-Gillon, January 2001, and Nancy Tait's observations on it, February 2002
• responses to Nancy Tait's compensation survey among OEDA clients for 2001
• copy of judgement in appeal of Fairchild (et al.), Supreme Court of Judicature, 11 December 2001

OEDA files on English journalist Christopher John Penrice Booker (b.1937), one of the founders of the magazine 'Private Eye', and a columnist for 'The Sunday Telegraph' since 1990.

Correspondence, chiefly from individuals who were exposed to solvents.

Correspondence, 1989-1994, in reverse chronological order. Includes extensive papers on all manner of asbestos-related matters, 1906-1976, including

• photocopies of Kazan-Allen's highly international correspondence
• photocopies of historical documents, among them papers relating to the construction of the Queen Mary from the John Brown shipyard records, University of Glasgow, and papers relating to a lawsuit involving the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), c.1960-1976
• documents and discussions on the state of knowledge re asbestos spraying, 1940s-1960s
• correspondence re orders for copies of the SPAID asbestos bibliography
• photocopies from 'Mealey's litigation reports' on the Manville Trust litigation, August 1990-April 1992
• scientific publications including papers by Kvetoslav Rudolph Spurny (1923-1999), expert on fibrous particles
• press coverage
• occasional coroners' reports

• photocopy of M G Jacko and R T DuCharme (March 1973 / 1978) ‘Brake emissions: emission measurements from brake and clutch linings from selected mobile sources’ (Bendix Research Laboratory for EPA, Rept. 68-04-0020)
• press coverage, press releases, excerpts from literature and Mintex product information, 1978-1998
• copy of Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited (1989) 'Guide to regulations on control of asbestos at work' (booklet)

As early as 1977 Nancy Tait and her charity had given evidence to the Simpson Committee about the risks of chrysotile in brake linings, drawing attention to the high level of risk to garage workers. It was not until 1985 that the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) took action.

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.

Two series:

• analogue registers and finding aids
• OEDA case database and data sheets

Card index of employers, matching each employer with individual(s) diagnosed with asbestosis or related condition.

Correspondence with Members of Parliament, in alphabetical order by surname. With a listing of MPs (dated 2002) at the front of the file.

Covers a wide range of topics including

• Parliamentary Questions (PQs) relating to occupational and environmental health & safety, DHSS/DSS policies, DHSS/DSS procedures, DHSS/DSS leaflets and DHSS/DSS shortcomings
• Dr Kevin Browne's dual role as Cape Asbestos consultant and medical officer at DHSS medical boarding center for respiratory diseases
• constituents who happen to be also be SPAID/OEDA clients

Correspondence with representatives of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC) and its critics; among the former, AIC director W Penney and AIC deputy chairman Wilfred P Howard.

Topics covered include Nancy Tait's unanswered questions regarding the death of her husband, William Ashton Tait; the facts of asbestos; Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills' (1976); and various AIC publications.

Further includes

• AIC leaflets and technical information notes, among them ‘Asbestos in the home’ (1983) and ‘Asbestos in building’ (1983)
• AIC's commentary on 'Asbestos killer dust' by Alan Dalton / the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science, 1979
• AIC's commentary on Nancy Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'
• documentation re the asbestos industry's intense advertising campaign in June-July 1976
• Tait's detailed criticism of the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) educational leaflets 'Safe working with asbestos'
• a little correspondence with the ARC, 1969-1977

Also includes a little material re the Asbestos International Association (AIA), whose director general at the time, Alex Cross (A A Cross), requested access to the comments of 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) on Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'.

The AIC was set up by the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) in 1967 to manage asbestos publicity (and lobbying). Sometime in the late 1970s the AIC changed its name to Asbestos Information Centre. Nancy Tait and other critics of the AIC found many of the AIC's statements inaccurate.

The set of aggregations originally contained a photocopy of the AIC's typescript ‘ACA final report - 24 October 1979: Industry Information Kit’. This duplicated material elsewhere in the collection; see link below, 'Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos'.

Correspondence with various unions (in roughly alphabetical order by name of union). Includes publicity leaflets, press cuttings, copies of

• International Metalworkers’ Federation (1979) ‘Action programme against asbestos’ (at AUEW)
• Peter Kirby (c.1982) ‘Death in the textile industry: a proportional mortality study of 952 dyers, bleachers and textile workers who died between 1976-1980’ (at TGWU)

Standard replies (also covering letters) including notes and information packs sent in response to occupational and environmental health enquiries. All the texts in questions mutated over the years. Several of the notes evolved into publications by the organisation; see link below.

Correspondence and papers, including statement on SPAID's commitment and the organisation's role in the community, and copy of management consultants' preliminary report and action plan.

Proposals for the name of the successor organisation included 'Occupational Diseases Association' (ODA), 'Industrial Diseases of the Environment Association' (IDEA) and 'Investigation of Industrial Diseases of the Environment Association' (IIDEA).