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Correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Includes extensive papers on all manner of asbestos-related matters. Over the course of this file the correspondence becomes predominantly email.

Correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Nearly all of it email and email attachments.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with business historian Geoffrey Tweedale. One theme of the exchange is arrangements for the OEDA archive. Includes

• drafts of Tweedale’s publications
• correspondence with London Metropolitan Archive
• photocopies of corporate correspondence from the asbestos industry, including Sumner Simpson, 1934-1957

Correspondence with barrister John Verdin Davies re fibrosing alveolitis and percentage assessment of disability for lung diseases. Includes CVs of Davies and Dr J K Anand.

Correspondence with Andy Shaw of Higgs & Sons, solicitors, re his reelection to the OEDA Management Committee, Turner & Newall being placed in administration, etc. Includes

• information pack on the Turner & Newall Scheme Trust Fund, 2006
• copy of judgement in Rothwell v. Chemical & Insulating Co Ltd and another, Court of Appeal, Queen's Bench Division (26 January 2006); a pleural plaque case

Personal injury lawyer Andrew Shaw of Higgs & Son Solicitors served on the OEDA Management Committee 2005-2007.

Correspondence and papers. The contact between Nancy Tait and the White Lung Association (WLA) dates back to at least 1984 and was renewed at the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Correspondence with Canadian contacts (1979-1999) and re asbestos in Canada (to 2006), in reverse chronological order. Also papers including research papers, press coverage, news releases, sample death reporting forms. Themes covered include workmen’s compensation in Canada and the Canadian government’s resistance to banning asbestos.

Papers include

• copy of Canadian report on French chrysotile ban (in French, with a summary in English), 1999
• copy of OEDA newsletter (autumn 1998), discussing Canadian attitudes to asbestos
• Canadian regulations on chrysotile, 1998
• photocopies of articles by asbestosis victim and historian Ray Sentes, who had worked as an insulation worker in Canada prior to studying the Canadian asbestos industry and becoming an historian and activist
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety press releases 1989-1990, probably incomplete set
• copy of typescript G Atherley and R Whiting (1981) ‘Basic concepts of occupational cancers’, presented to the Canadian Labour Congress Conference on Cancer in the Workplace, Montreal, 23 February 1981
• copy of S Graham et al. [?1974] ‘Cancer in asbestos mining and other areas of Quebec’

One of Nancy Tait's earliest Canadian correspondents was Margaret R Becklake of McGill University. They met during Tait's visit to North America, 1977.

Over time this dossier changed from a correspondence with Canada file into a Canada-themed aggregation in which everything pertaining to the subject of asbestos in Canada accumulated.

Correspondence discussing provisional damages, conditional fees and access to justice. Includes

• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers' (APIL) responses to The Lord Chancellor's 1998 Consultation Paper 'Access to justice with conditional fees', and copy of the text in question
• SPAID summary of what the then new conditional fee rules involve, 1995
• sample provisional fees agreement Field Fisher Waterhouse and copy of the firm's client guide on provisional fees
• photocopy of draft statutory instrument ‘Conditional fee agreement order' (1995)
• correspondence with several law firms, among them Gadsby Wicks Solicitors (Chelmsford), Field Fisher Waterhouse and Rowley Ashworth, re Law Commission Consultation Paper on provisional damages (1992) and re conditional fees.
• extract from the Law Commission's 1992 Consultation Paper on provisional damages (presumably 'Structured settlements and interim and provisional damages', Consultation Paper No 125)

Correspondence with solicitors at Evill and Coleman (London), Rowley Ashworth and Field Fisher Waterhouse re Law Commission Consultation Paper No 140 (1995) 'Damages for personal injury: non-pecuniary loss'.

Includes softback copy of the text in question.

Correspondence with solicitors of Leigh, Day & Co, John Pickering & Partners and Rowley Ashworth about Law Commission Consultation Paper No 151 (1998) 'Limitation of actions'.

Includes a soft-bound copy of the text in question.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage), predominantly 2001-2006, re the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Company site at Rochdale, Greater Manchester). Includes a little correspondence with Jason Addy of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and with Barbara Balmer (daughter of Alan Balmer, asbestos victim). Themes covered include campaigning for compensation, redevelopment of the site, creation of an asbestos memorial for Nellie Kershaw, the first asbestos death on record (d.1924).

Includes a photocopy of 'Turner & Newall: the first fifty years' (c.1970) and other earlier material.

Set of booklets and industry brochures including

• TAC (n.d.) 'Q & A: living and working with TAC's asbestos cement products'
• TAC industry brochures on construction materials and building & insulation products
• TBA [?1970] 'The mineral asbestos'

Plaintiff's memorandum of law (1989), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Discusses suppression of asbestos hazard prior to sale of Limpet to Chase Manhattan Bank. Includes a covering letter from Patrick S Guilfoyle of Ashcraft & Gerel, Washington, attorneys of Chase Manhattan Bank.

The lawsuit concerned 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, the first large multi-storey building with sprayed mineral fibre, mostly Limpet.

Correspondence and papers re Armley, Yorkshire, and the Armley Asbestos Campaign 1992-1994. Includes:

• press coverage 1992-1996
• correspondence with Irene Merrill of Armley Asbestos Campaign, 1994, and further Armley Asbestos Campaign papers
• Leeds Council press pack, June 1994, including findings of Prof. Roger Wiley, who came to the conclusion that asbestos levels at Armley posed a negligible risk
• copy of briefing by Laurie Kazan-Allen on the Armley asbestos situation, 5 July 1993
• copy of environmental report by Wharfedale Environmental Services Ltd (10 August 1992) ‘Comparison of fibre count results on air samples taken in houses from Armley Area of Leeds between optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy’
• copy of Barrie N Barker (1989) ‘The history of Turner & Newall: review of the history of Turner & Newall Plc and Associated Companies; its dealings with asbestosis related diseases and its Employers’ Liability coverage with the Midland Assurance Ltd and other carriers’ (received from Laurie Kazan-Allen, July 1992)
• annotated copy of HSE Guidance Note EH 10 (Asbestos exposure limits etc.)

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and order forms, chiefly re benefits leaflets and forms requisitioning from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Department of Social Security (DSS) and the Benefits Agency (BA).

Includes correspondence re leaflets NI 226, NI 272 (NI226, NI272).