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Includes notes taken by Dalton at the conference.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Australia. Includes:

• press cuttings, mostly about sufferers of asbestos-related disease
• ‘Asbestos Kills’ - guide to standards for asbestos removal published by Construction and General Division of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
• copy of Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia booklet

Correspondence between Dalton and Patrick Herman, co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network. Includes article by Dalton entitled ‘Fighting asbestos hazards in the UK’ for Ban Asbestos Network’s ‘Black Book on Asbestos’.

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.

Letters to Dalton from Battersea Redevelopment Action Group re asbestos and demolition activities on Morgan crucible site, Battersea.

Correspondence and papers on proposal to dispose asbestos at sea by Bermudan Government.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Brazil. Includes:

• correspondence with Fernanda Giannasi, Brazilian labour inspector and safety engineer and co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network
• academic papers by Fernanda Giannasi, Annie Thébaud-Mony, Barry Castleman

The British Asbestos newsletter was a quarterly publication distributed worldwide to solicitors, victim support groups, academics, medical personnel and research bodies. It was founded and co-ordinated by Laurie Kazan-Allen, coordinator of the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat.

• press release about study of risks from mining and milling of chrysotile (white) asbestos, 1998
• leaflets about Society and responsibilities of employers, c. 2000
• copies from British Occupational Hygiene Society Occupational Hygiene newsletter of articles by Jeff Friar relating to asbestos, 2001.

Dalton was Research Fellow in Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) from 1974 to 1978 and subsequently on the editorial board of Hazards magazine, the magazine on health and safety in the workplace produced by the BSSRS. This series comprises papers and correspondence originating from both these roles, including an incomplete run of Hazards magazine.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos and other environmental pollution in Camden. Topics include:

• asbestos in Camden Schools
• asbestos in factory in Kentish Town
• air pollution

Correspondence and papers originating from Dalton's interactions with various campaign and support groups. Most of the groups were concerned with asbestos.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Canada and export of asbestos from Canada. Correspondents include Barry Castleman, Mick Holder, Jim Brophy. Includes academic papers and press cuttings. Also report, c. 1998, by Catherine Escojido and Rodrigue Chartier, President of the Syndicat national de l'amiante d'Asbestos inc., entitled 'The controlled use of asbestos. For sustainable development and the protection of employment'.

Letter to Dalton from Cathy Walker, Canadian Auto Workers Union.