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Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1996.

Bright red cover, 21.8 x 15.4 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1997.

Black cover, 21.8 x 15.4 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1998.

Dark blue cover, 21.8 x 15.4 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1999.

Black cover, 21.8 x 15 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 2000.

Dark blue cover, 21.6 x 15.2 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 2001.

Wine red cover with gilt edge, 21.2 x 14.4 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 2002.

Bright red cover, 22 x 15.5 cm.

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 2003.

Black cover, padded, with metal corner, 22 x 15 cm.

Obituaries of Nancy Tait collected by her colleague and friend Joan Griffiths. Further includes:

• correspondence between Nancy Tait and British Rail over her ticket, 1975, illustrating her tenaciousness
• Joan Griffiths' compilation on Nancy Tait's achievements
• Nancy Tait's questionnaire for the research project 'Citizen involvement in health care: meanings, motivations and means', Health in Partnership Project, Department of Health, 2001

In chronological order. Includes:

• press coverage relating to Nancy Tait's award of a Winston Churchill scholarship and the publication of Tait's 'Asbestos kills' (1976)
• articles in 'Health and safety at work', written chiefly by Alex Crawford, a future chairman of SPAID
• correspondence with Jacky Steemson, editor of 'The safety representative' (a monthly of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA), re her interview with Nancy Tait in August 1985 and resulting article in the November issue of the magazine
• article on the Cancer Prevention Society (CPS), Glasgow, of which Tait was one of the directors
• copy from 'Occupational safety & health' (August 1988) featuring Tait and others in a photographic view of the 1988 RoSPA International Safety & Health Exhibition
• copies of 'The safety representative' (March and April 1989) with a two part article ('Fatal fibre') by Margaret Hamilton
• article on the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU) in the magazine 'Microscopy news' (March 1994) by Alex Crawford (at the time the laboratory news editor of the magazine)
• correspondence re an article on the EMU in the TUUT Charitable Trust newsletter, September 2001
• copy of article in 'Axis magazine', October 2003
• copy of special issue of 'International journal of occupational and environmental health' vol 9.3 (July/September 2003) on 'The asbestos war'; this included an article on the emergence of victim support groups, by international anti-asbestos campaigner Laurie Kazan-Allen

SPAID / OEDA leaflets and fliers.

Correspondence and papers re entries for the organisation in relevant directories. In alphabetical order by name of directory or organisation compiling it.

Front matter includes

• listing of all directories
• sample texts describing the organisation
  Descriptions shifted over time and varied with the focus of the directory and the permitted length of the entry. Typical change requests concerned the organisation's name (from SPAID to OEDA in January 1996), Nancy Tait's epithets (MBE, Dr), and shifts in organisational activity caused by fluctuations of funding, such as e.g. the closure of the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU) after OEDA lost its main source of funding in 2003.

In reverse chronological order. Includes

• photocopy of communication from the Greater London Council (GLC), 29 July 1983, informing Nancy Tait that the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee of the Council resolved to make SPAID a grant of up to £31,365.
• reports to the trustees, 11 November 1981, 14 July 1982 and October 1983
• agenda and papers for meeting of trustees, 15 November 1979
• minutes of a meeting of trustees, 25 October 1978
• drafts and final version of the deed of trust

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Edward Beckett.

Beckett was one of Nancy Tait's earliest supporters in her quest to find answers regarding the death of her husband and regarding the health risks associated with asbestos. At the time Beckett was the secretary of the Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society, originally founded to help working class Post Office employees when conventional medical insurance was not widely affordable.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Major General H A Lascelles.

Henry Anthony Lascelles (1912-2000) was director-general of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 1967-1980.