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Folder of material gathered by Dalton on the history of the awareness and knowledge of the risks of asbestos. Numbered and annotated by Dalton. Includes copies of:

• annual reports and correspondence of Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, 1898-1947
• Home Office reports, 1930-1935
• annual report of Medical Officer of Health, London Borough of Barking, 1945
• Turner & Newall correspondence, 1943-1957
• academic articles and publications, 1904-1994
• press cuttings, 1920s-1983

Correspondence documenting T&N’s efforts to counter the findings in a report by the University of Leeds re the health hazards of using asbestos in buildings.

Correspondence between Dalton and Barry Castleman, environmental consultant, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include Turner & Newall (including copies of Turner & Newall correspondence, 1938-1964), Richard Doll, Irving Selikoff, World Trade Organization asbestos case.

Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings), 1982-2005, with some earlier material (1973-1979).

Correspondents include

• eminent scientist Prof Irving Selikoff, Dr Andrew Churg and environmental consultant Barry Castleman
• lawyers, among them from Armstrong, Gordon, Mitchell & Damiani, Cleveland; Jane B Cantor of Garruto Cantor Trial Lawyers, NJ; Patrick Guilfoyle, Washington; Leonard C Jacque of Jacque Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit; Michael O’Connor; Peters & Peters, Santa Monica; Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina; Speights & Runyan, Attorneys at Law, South Carolina; Wallace & Graham, North Caroina; and Marc P Weingarten of Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia
• also Dwight E Brown of Asbestos Hazards Programs
• writer Paul Brodeur

Includes

• copy of documents relating to the Ahearn class action: US District Court, Eastern District of Texas [c.1993] 'Overview of and questions & answers on the global settlement agreement and the Ahearn class action'; copy of notice of class action [c.1994] Gerald Ahearn et al. v. Fibreboard Corporation et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division; and copy of notice of pendency of defendant class action [etc.], Continental Casualty Company et al. v. Daniel Herman Rudd Jr. et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
• photocopy of court summons Beatrice Angio v. Celotex Corporation (May 1983)
• magazine articles and press cuttings, including re houses in Laguna Beach and Malibu being spared by recent fires in California, in part due to the use of asbestos tiles, in part due to substituting ice plants for the native sagebrush
• conference information (participants lists) for 'Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres', Lyon, France, 25-27 September 1979

Continues exchanges begun 1975-1977; see link below.

Includes:

• company correspondence re lung cancer, 1923-1946, including statistics on occupational lung cancer mortality, lists of 'suspended employees' (= suspended on health grounds) and of employees whose cause of death (as stated by coroner or medical board) involved some degree of asbestosis; also correspondence re Dr Leroy U Gardner's asbestosis research at the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, New York
• correspondence and papers re medical research conducted by Drs T Belt and E J King on behalf of T&N, 1942-1952
• records relating to Drs R Doll and J Knox' study on mortality from lung cancer among asbestos workers, and T&N seeking to suppress the findings, 1953-1954
• records chiefly re epidemiological studies on lung cancer among asbestos workers, 1954-1959
• correspondence and papers re asbestos and health, 1959-1986, including lists of claims settled or still proceeding, list of deaths from lung cancer and mesothelioma, etc

Papers and correspondence. Correspondence is with Sylvia Collier, BBC South. Papers document SPAID's pioneering role in warning of the mesothelioma epidemic ahead, long before the Health & Safety Executive's joint press announcement (with Julian Peto) on 3 March 1995 that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production.

Includes:

• press coverage
• Brunel University MSc thesis by G.B. Farrant on potential release of asbestos affecting residents of Elgin Estate, October 1986
• report of independent commission, January 1996
• report by Professor Julian Peto, January 1997
• photographs, 1997
• papers on removal of asbestos from Winterton House and Gelston Point, Tower Hamlets
• publication by Walterton and Elgin Community Homes Ltd, 1998

Recording and transcript of Colin Campbell in conversation with Rory Stride in October 2016. Colin Campbell worked as a steelworker in Govan from 1979. The discussion covers a wide range of topics with a focus on trade unions and staff drinking alcohol at work.

[00:00:02] Introductions
[00:00:14] Talks about childhood
[00:02:00] Talks about interview process at shipbuilding companies and unemployment in Govan
[00:04:35] Talks about staff at Govan’s shipbuilders, working life and working conditions
[00:08:15] Describes skills required to be a caulker burner
[00:09:03] Describes health and safety and accidents at work
[00:11:26] Talks about staff camaraderie
[00:12:39] Describes closure of shipbuilding yard, redundancy, staff reactions to redundancy
[00:17:40] Talks about trade unions
[00:18:53] Talks about wife’s working patterns
[00:19:50] Discussion about changes in working conditions from 1979-2016, Kvaerner’s takeover of the Fairfield yard in 1988
[00:22:19] Talks about trade unions, shift from boilermakers union to GMB Scotland union, strike action, relationship between staff and shop steward, relationship between staff and management
[00:30:05] Discussion about 1980s politics and politics in 2016
[00:33:15] Talks about staff camaraderie, staff social events, alcohol at work
[00:37:23] Talks about items bought with wages, friendships outside of work
[00:39:34] Discussion about the closure of shipbuilding in Govan and the impact on the area
[00:42:52] Talks about retirement and interview concludes

Correspondence and papers relating to the implementation of the ideas and practices of the Brazilian adult educator, Paulo Freire. Colin Kirkwood first became aware of Paulo Freire in 1975. He began teaching about him, initially by leading reading groups in the Kirkwoods' home, and later submitted a proposal to Lothian Regional Council for a community-based project to implement Freire's ideas. The proposal was accepted and in 1979, the Adult Learning Project (ALP) was established in the working-class Gorgie Dalry area of Edinburgh. Gerri Kirkwood played a leading role in the ALP from its inception until 1989.

Many of the letters and papers relate to the writing and publication in 1989 of the book 'Living Adult Education: Freire in Scotland' by Colin and Gerri Kirkwood, an account of the ten year initial effort to establish the ALP. Contents include:

• Articles by and about Paulo Freire
• Reviews of 'Living Adult Education: Freire in Scotland'
• Papers relating to the conference 'Challenging Education, Creating Alliances: An Institute in Honor of Paulo Freire's 70th Birthday', New York, 1991 at which Colin and Gerri Kirkwood delivered a workshop
• Papers relating to 'The Education of Adults in Scotland: Democracy and Curriculum' conference in 1992
• Correspondence with Ira Shor, Professor at College of Staten Island, City University of New York
• Papers relating to the writing of a chapter by Gerri Kirkwood in the book 'The Charnwood Papers: Fallacies in Community Education', published in 1991
• 'Rethinking Columbus' a special issue of 'Rethinking Schools' 1991
• Obituary of Paulo Freire by Frei Betto, 1997

Complete set of 'Castlemilk Today'.

• correspondence with June Freeman, 1994-2001
• photocopies of June Freeman's correspondence and papers arising from the death of her son Simon, 1992-1994; includes a copy of Simon Freeman's postmortem report

June Freeman's son died in November 1992, following solvent exposure at work. She sued his employer and campaigned for better protection of workers from solvents.

Encloses the following:

Memorandum: J. Tyrwhitt to ACE Students on 'The Ekistic Grid in Context'. Athens Technological Organisation - Athens Centre of Ekistics. No. S-ACE 201 : 1250. 8 December 1971. Mention of the Ekistic Grid in town planning, developed by C.A. Doxiadis; the CIAM grid invented by Le Corbusier; Geddes Place-Work-Folk 'thinking machines'. [See also T-TYR 1/19 [https://www.ica-atom.org/strathclyde/memorandum-ekistic-grid-in-context-by-j-aqueline-tyrwhitt;isad]].

Copy letter: J[aqueline] Tyrwhitt to George Brasiller.
Regarding the publication of a book about Patrick Geddes. Outlines Tyrwhitt's understanding of Geddes' contribution to town planning. Suggests that Dr. Helen Meller write an historical introduction. Mention of Geddes' Dunfermline report; Professor George Collins; Mr. [ ] Green; Professor [ ] Dix. 3 pp. 24 September 1971. 2 copies

Photocopy of article: 'The Ekistic Grid' by Jacqueline [sic: the 'c' in Jacqueline has been crossed out] Tyrwhitt. Arena: Architecture Association Journal], pp. 10-15. Presented at the AA on 10 June 1965.

Photocopy of draft paper on sociology by Patrick Geddes. Typescript with manuscript annotations. 27 pp. No date. [Possibly in Sociological Review, January 1924]. Attached: 2 pp. of manuscript thought diagrams by [Patrick Geddes]. 1 p. of manuscript notes by [Jaqueline Tyrwhitt] relating to the paper and the possibility of using the diagrams [possibly in a publication].

Notes on heritage and burden using a debit and credit transaction model.

On sun dials; the stars; globes; the planets; planet paths; spectrum analysis; eclipses; cosmospheres; current developments in astronomy; Celtic astronomy; and diagrams on the construction of orreries. Manuscript with diagrams.