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Chiefly correspondence with Ian McCartney MP. Includes an annotated copy of excerpts from WHO meeting on 'Occupational health as a component of primary health care', Turku, Finland, 9-13 September 1985.

Copy of a report by the Subcommittee on Environmental Health of the Environmental Health Directorate, Canada, 15 February 1976.

Intercalated cross reference to 'Beaudry inquiry', presumably Judge Rene Beaudry's inquiry into the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada.

Copy of a report published by the Commission des accidents du travail du Québec, Montréal.

• covering correspondence
• photocopy (unmarked) of Claude Barbeau & R L Ledoux (1979) ‘Short course in mineralogical techniques of asbestos determination’ (Toronto Mineralogical Association of Canada, Québec)

Correspondence and papers (including speakers' profiles and list of participants) re the conference in question. Includes booklet 'Social enterprise London: case studies in economic participation', c. 1999.

Competition organised by the Enfield Anglers Council and held at Lea Valley Waters in Wharf Road, Ponders End. Local press coverage featured pictures of Nancy Tait with the competition organiser, Kevin Lotz, and a bumper fish.

Copy of London Hazard Centre (1995) 'Asbestos hazards handbook'. Nancy Tait was one of the five invited speakers at the press conference to launch this publication.

Copies of the magazine ‘The Asbestos Institute: sensible management of a natural resource’, August 1991-1998, incomplete set.

Correspondence, programme, Nancy Tait’s notes on some of the presentations. Also copies of the following presentations, some of them annotated:

• Andrew Sims: workplace stress – medical view
• Simon Allen: workplace stress – legal view, RSI – legal view
• Dr David Snashall: manual handling and back injuries – medical view
• Oscar Tempest: insurance company view
• Prof. C L Welsh: VWF – medical view
• Glyn Jones: VWF – legal view
• John Campbell: occupational deafness – medical view
• Dr Jeremy Beach: respiratory diseases – medical view
• Dr John Moore-Gillon: diseases caused by asbestos exposure
• James Rowley: asbestos-induced diseases – legal view
• Dr Charles Twort: occupational asthma – medical view
• Brian Williams: occupational asthma – legal view
• David Gawkroger: dermatitis – medical view
• Alan Care: Is dermatitis a good indicator of chemical poisoning?

Correspondence and papers re the marathon appeal 1988, which netted just over £2900.

The marathon took place on Sunday 17 April 1988.

Correspondence and papers re the marathon appeal 1989, which netted around £2300.

The marathon took place on Sunday 23 April 1989.

Papers re the marathon appeal 1993, which netted around £4250.

Correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's presentation at the 8th Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Annual International Safety and Health Exhibition and Congress, Birmingham, 22-24 May 1990.

Includes drafts of the paper, conference guide.

The latter contains notes on speakers, with photographs. Tait was the only female speaker, as the conference organisers found important to point out.

Correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's critique of the fibre analysis approach, citing from Dr Allen R Gibbs' testimony to coroners, OEDA's EM findings contradicting those of Gibbs, and explaining that in view of the unreliability of standard fibre analysis techniques, OEDA no longer attempts to calculate the number of fibres present in lung tissue. Includes

• various drafts of OEDA statement 'A critique of fibre analysis techniques' (March 2000) including illustrative materials, among it a nuclepore filter and gold grid; a sample of lung tissue digest has been disposed of in line with the Archives Service's appraisal policy
• letter from occupational health expert Dr Morris Greenberg on 'the importance of fibre that doesn't get to the lung parenchyma ... in the causation of bronchial carcinoma'
• correspondence with Dr M E Jacobsen, 1998, outlining OEDA’s fibre counting approach (based on 10 years experience using the EM) and asking about statistical arguments that could be used to discourage reliance on counts in lung tissue
• post mortem and other medical information on individuals 1995-1999
• copy of ISO 10312:1995 ‘Ambient air - Determination of asbestos fibres - Direct transfer transmission electron microscopy method’
• copies of letters by Dr A R Gibbs

A4 size address book of cases (name / address / disease).

Marked up using the following colour code:

• red: SPAID/OEDA asbestos-related case register
• green: claim no longer proceeding
• brown: pre-employment medical taken little notice of
• blue + pink: claim started + settled – length of time taken