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Oral history project, conducted in 2014-2015 by Nigel Ingham of the Open University on behalf of the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group, interviewing members of the Group.

There were 7 interviews in total and the collection comprises audio recordings, full transcripts, summaries and photographs for all interviews.

The interviewees comprise 5 women, widowed through mesothelioma (an asbestos-related disease), and 2 men who at the time were current sufferers. Of the 5 widows, 3 had been bereaved for up to 10 years, while two others lost their respective loved ones in the previous 12 months.

The interviews cover life story details, the social and economic context in which asbestos exposure occurred, the patient journey with mesothelioma, as well as the individual, emotional, family and social impact of the disease. Heavy industries such as textile mills, power stations are featured in the material, as well as shops, schools, and other 'lighter' contexts. The trades of those exposed to asbestos include electrical engineering, painting and decorating, joinery, shopfitting, bricklaying and tiling.

Geographically, the material predominantly covers Lancashire and Greater Manchester, but also references London.

Temporally, the material covers the decades following World War II up to approximately 2015.

Architects' plans; Board of Governors and Board of Studies minutes; student records; prospectuses and course handbooks; photographs and other memorabilia.

Article on teaching of law in late 19th century at Glasgow University; application and testimonials for Euing lectureship on music at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College.

Student handouts and assignment sheets, including: timetable for the first day of teaching practice; Department of Educational Methods typed handout on the use of work cards in school; second page of a typed discussion sheet on teaching history in primary school (first page not extant); Department of Education and Psychology third year Learning Course assignment sheet, with pencil annotations; Department of Education and Psychology third year Sociology of Education essay assignment sheet, with pencil and ink annotations on both sides of the page; first year Art/Craft course syllabus; first year Surface Texture assignment sheet, with pencil and ink annotations; Arts and Crafts Department second year Art Assignment sheet; Art and Crafts Department Final Art Assignment sheet; Art Department typed handout on the development of fabric craft in primary school, with pencil and ink annotations.

Illustrated charts purportedly tracing the ancestry of Helen Tooker's parents, Emily White Perkins and Harry Landon Tooker, back into early English, Irish and Scottish history. 16 of the charts are drawn in black ink and 7 in black ink and watercolour.

Lectures, talks and published articles by Wood; working papers for Wood's book on David Stow; video recording entitled 'Sir Henry P. Wood in Conversation', 1990; material relating to Jordanhill College including programmes for opening of buildings, photographs, modern reproductions of prints of Jordanhill House and Estate, video recording entitled 'Jordanhill College: an impression', 1991; audio recording of excerpt of interview with Anne McAllister, speech therapist.

Address given by Stockdale on the history and organisation of the Royal Technical College; letter on the Dilettanti Society and the Royal Technical College's portrait collection.

Records of the inquiry held in 1988 including proceedings and transcripts of meetings and statements and proofs of evidence.

Notebooks, letters, bills and receipts relating to the Houston Family of Johnstone and to Quarrelton Colliery.

Photograph of a bronze relief panel of Hugh Brown executed by Vincent Butler; photograph of Brown alongside Principal Lecturer George Orr and an overseas student from Zimbabwe; Brown's personal register of Scottish School of Physical Education students' marks for session 1954-1955, including a list of lectures he delivered to the third year students and a results table for the School's First and Second Eleven football games.

Incoming letters to Hugh Lang, mainly from his plantation manager, William Peebles, and various merchants, relating to the management of his estates in St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. Topics include the production of sugar, rum and molasses; the effects of the weather on production; shipments and sales of sugar, rum and molasses; sugar, rum and molasses prices and state of the markets; shortage of labourers; the provision of supplies to the estates; the valuation and sale of the Estate William. There are also some letters from family members including Ann Beckett of St. Croix (Lang's daughter); George Zachariae of Copenhagen (Lang's son-in-law); and Alexander and Lizzie Eckford, of India (Lizzie Eckford is Lang's niece).

Series of 18 photographs and postcards depicting aspects of the history of the University of Strathclyde since its establishment in 1796; photograph of Iain Boyle receiving honorary degree, 2000; photograph of George Birkbeck, 1823.

Published papers; application for lectureship in naval architecture; letter of appointment to chair of shipbuilding and naval architecture; lecture notes; papers relating to department of naval architecture.

Minutes of the Trustees (from 1896 Governors) and Committees 1871-1911; minutes of the Committee on Teaching 1896-1908; annual and other reports 1879/1880-1907/1908; financial records and insurance policies 1872-1908; papers on the establishment of the Weaving School 1876-1880; agreement and papers concerning classes on bleaching and dyeing at the Young Technical Chemistry Laboratory 1880-1882; secretary's correspondence 1898-1910; student records, examination papers and results 1899-1905; diplomas 1877, 1896; papers on staffing 1901-1907; buildings and estates records 1877-1906; syllabuses 1877/1878-1879/1880, 1895/1896-1896/1897; papers on the amalgamation with the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College 1902-1908; press cuttings 1898-1907; design book with samples, of James Allison, Paisley 1900.

Report and documents relating to the enquiry.