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One email and copy of newsletter of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.

Correspondence and papers re the HSE conference on new legal duties to manage asbestos, arising from the 'Control of asbestos at work regulations' (CAWR) 2002. Includes list of delegates, slides of conference programme with Nancy Tait's annotations.

Correspondence (mainly with Mick Holder and Margaret Sharkey) and papers re events and activities, including a meeting with Michael Clapham at the University of London Union (at which Nancy Tait spoke) and Workers Memorial Day, 28 April 2002.

Scientific literature assembled by OEDA in the hope of influencing the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council's (IIAD) review of the prescription of asbestos-related diseases, eventually completed in 2005. In reverse chronological order.

Minutes and notes of meetings of Asbestos Sub-committee of All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) chiefly with John Pickering, in reverse chronological order. Covers cases, referrals, donations to OEDA, content of the OEDA newsletter, the Law Commission’s consultation paper on limitation of actions, Nancy Tait’s correspondence with Wilfred P Howard (deputy chairman of the Asbestos Information Committee), Pickering’s application to court for discovery of documents from Asbestos Research Council and Asbestos Information Committee, JP & Partner’s ‘Guide to asbestos compensation’, re tracing the origins of the assumption that household exposure to asbestos is minimal, re papers received from Chase Manhattan.

Includes transcript of judgement in Christine Ballantine v. Newalls Insulation Co Ltd (1999).

Press coverage, January to December 2003. In reverse chronological order. Some of the original cuttings mounted.

Mainly on asbestos but also covers other themes, among them the health threat posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Includes press coverage of Nancy Tait being shortlisted for the prestigious Beacon Award (category lifetime achievement).

Papers and correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re Westminster Council's management of the Elgin Estate (Chantry and Hermes Points), in particular whether the Council took appropriate action in response to information about asbestos at the blocks and complaints from people who lived in them. Includes

• documentation of local campaigning subsequent to the Barratt report (see below), including a discussion between former tenants and Dr Julian Peto, February 1997
• copy of John Barratt (24 January 1996) ‘Report of a documentary review into the use by Westminster Council of Hermes and Chantry Points, Elgin Estate, Westminster, for housing purposes, given the presence of asbestos' ("Barratt Report")
• copies of Westminster Council papers (including minutes), relating to the management of the estate 1983-1991
• copies of 'WECH [Walterton & Elgin Community Homes] News', 1996 and earlier

The Barratt report coincided with a press conference to launch the 'Asbestos hazards handbook', at which Nancy Tait was one of five invited speakers.

Correspondence and papers re application for a Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Critical Assistance Fund award, to cover the shortfall arising from termination of funding through the London Borough Grants Scheme. Instead of the funds to cover the shortfall, OEDA received a grant for a two day diagnostic to review the organisation's needs. Includes a copy of the diagnostic report.

Correspondence and papers re the OEDA BBC 4 radio appeal, 14 March 2004. The appeal was presented by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, whose sister had died of mesothelioma. After deduction of BBC costs, donations totalled £ 7210.

Includes

• colour photographs of Michael Frayn with Nancy Tait, from the recording session in February 2004
• appeal script in various stages
• letters accompanying donations
• materials from an earlier application for an OEDA BBC 4 radio appeal, 1998, with a list of all BBC 4 radio appeals 1996, including name of presenter and amount raised (exceeding £ 880,000)

There were extensive records of donations including photocopies of all VISA card transactions and cheques received. These have been disposed of in line with the appraisal policy.

Conversation between David Walker and Mr Richard Fitzpatrick, Rutherglen, 13 August 2004.

• sound recording (44m) and transcript

Richard Fitzpatrick, b. 24 February 1917, process worker (chromates) Rutherglen, near Glasgow. Mr Fitzpatrick was a former employee at White's Chemical Works, Shawfield, Rutherglen.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with South Wales miners Howard Jones and Gareth Gower, 11 May 2004.

• sound recording (1 hour 53 minutes 50 seconds) and transcript

Interview C25.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with South Wales miners Tom Bowden, Colin ('Nati') Thomas, Gerald Hawkins and Derek Charles, Gelligaer, 12 May 2004.

• sound recording (1 hour 34 minutes 53 seconds) and transcript

Interview C26.

Neil Rafeek in conversation with Durham miner David Guy, Durham, 8 March 2004.

• transcript

Interview C44.

Neil Rafeek in conversation with Durham miner Marshall Wylde, Murton, Co. Durham, 10 March 2004.

• transcript

Interview C35.