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Includes press coverage.

Letters to Dalton from Bill Lawrence, Tyneside Occupational Health Project. Includes:

• papers on state benefits for asbestos disease, 2000, 2002
• letter from Lawrence to Stephen Byres, MP, on liquidation of Iron Trades Employers Association, January 2001
• correspondence and papers on new drug treatments for mesothelioma, 2002
• Trade Union Studies Information Unit Health & Safety News, 2002

• Correspondence and papers on John Macpherson, Glasgow shipyard worker who won compensation case in 1985 against Alexander Stephen and Sons and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders for exposure to asbestos
• ‘Clydeside Action on Asbestos: aims and outline’ booklet, 1992

Correspondence between Dalton and Geoffrey Tweedale, Manchester Metropolitan University. Includes:

• correspondence, February 1999, about Tweedale’s book ‘Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard’ including copy of last two chapters of book annotated by Dalton. Also, explanation by Dalton of what triggered his own interest in asbestos.
• article by Geoffrey Tweedale on the Asbestos Research Council, 2000

Proofs for book on asbestos entitled ‘We Die as Best We Can’ by Jim Burns.

Correspondence between Dalton and various contacts, mostly on asbestos. Includes email communications to health and safety listservs to which Dalton belonged.

Concerns Southwark Council’s handling of removal of asbestos from houses on the estate.

Correspondence and papers on trial relating to death in 1995 from mesothelioma of David Emerson, consultant surgeon in Sheffield. It was alleged that Emerson was exposed to asbestos as a student and houseman in the Middlesex Hospital in London in the 1960s and 1970s.

Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.

Internal memorandum from Dalton, Transport & General Workers Union, on a women’s health and safety at work reading list. Encloses ‘Occupational safety and health concerns of Canadian women’ by Karen Messing.

• report of review by Health and Safety Executive into management of health and safety and the standards of risk control at premises run by Atomic Weapons Establishment plc
• press cuttings on safety at atomic weapons plants

Correspondence and papers on noise induced hearing loss in commercial vehicle drivers. Includes transcript of World in Action programme ‘Long Distance Lorry Drivers’.

Correspondence and papers on Alan Meale, Environment Minister.