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Winter issue, no. 11.

Correspondence with GMBATU Health & Safety officers (in particular David Gee), and papers. Includes:

• questionnaire for survey of health hazards and chemical substances in the food industry 1986
• typescript summarising GMBATU's take on R Doll & J Peto (1985) ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos - the risk of asbestos in buildings’ (Doll/Peto Report)
• typescript summarising GMBATU's view of the consultative document (1985) ‘Control of asbestos at work: draft regulations and draft approved code of practice’
• typescript article ‘How self-regulation fails to protect workers – the asbestos story’ (1984)
• GMBATU (1984) ‘Progress report on fibrous dust campaign 1980-1984’
• drafts of HSE leaflet on asbestos brake linings, 1984
• draft GMBATU guide (1984) ‘The extent and characteristics of asbestos diseases – a guide for doctors, solicitors, union officials & exposed workers’ (1984)
• draft GMBATU 'TIE pamphlet', 1984; TIE being thermal insulation engineers, also known as laggers
• typescript GMBATU (1984) 'Draft TUC leaflet on asbestos'
• press coverage
• a little case correspondence

Testimony of Dr Julian Peto before the Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario, 29 and 30 July 1981, 2 vols.

The honour of Fellowship of the University of Strathclyde was introduced in 1988. Different from an honorary doctoral degree, it was bestowed by the University Court in appreciation of notably long and distinguished service to the governance of the university. Recipients were presented for admission to Fellowship at the regular degree congregations of the university.
The register records each Fellow's name, signature, and date of admission to Fellowship.

Loose pages recording the conferment of the honorary degree of Doctor of Science upon Professor Sir Charles Kuen Kao at a ceremony held in Hong Kong, 22 September 2010, and the conferment of the honorary degree of Doctor of Science upon Charles Hard Townes at a ceremony held in San Francisco, 31 January 2011.
These details are recorded on loose pages because the bound volume was not taken to the overseas ceremonies.

Each year, the University of Strathclyde awards a small number of honorary degrees to people who have made an outstanding contribution to academia and learning, to the university, to society (nationally and/or internationally) or to enterprise or business in their particular field. Honorary degrees are now conferred at the university's regular summer and autumn degree congregations, but were formerly awarded at the annual University Day ceremony (previously known as Commemoration Day). Honorary degrees have also been conferred at congregation ceremonies arranged for specific occasions, such the opening of new buildings on campus.
The registers record each honorary graduate's name, signature, the title of degree conferred, and the date.

Correspondence and press reports re the continuing threat posed by asbestos around the globe. Contains:

• draft presentation (typescript with Flynn's manuscript annotations) on South Africa's mining industry, possibly given at the Joint Hazards Campaign / TUC Asbestos Conference 'Asbestos still kills', April 2001, London
• correspondence including with international solicitors, expert witnesses (among them Barry I Castleman) and asbestos ban campaigners, re the plight of asbestos victims, the impact of the liquidation of assets of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd, etc. Also includes correspondence re expert witness Richard Doll, author of 'Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers' (1955), and re plans for Doll's personal archive
• press cuttings re asbestos compensation litigation, the legacy of asbestos in the UK and South Africa, Geoffrey Tweedale's new book (with Richard Hansen), 'Magic mineral to killer dust: Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard' (2000), medical provisions in South Africa

Predominantly on mining workers' compensation. Includes:

• correspondence with John Carol Anthony (Tony) Davies, formerly Director of the National Centre for Occupational Health (Johannesburg), re his project of miners compensation, 1998-2000
• annotated copy of article on asbestos in 'Mining Annual Review' 1979
• notes on shop stewards meetings ("Turnall SA minutes"), Durban, 1980s and photocopies of information on Turnall (received from Halton Cheadle, a South African labour lawyer). Founded in 1943, Turnall Holdings Ltd produces building and construction materials and is headquartered in Harare, Zimbabwe
• affidavit of Samuel Manzezulu Sibanyoni in the matter of unionization (National Union of Textile Workers), 1981
• photocopy of an article on South Africa’s asbestos industry, 'South African Mining and Engineering Journal', 15 January 1938