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• conference announcements and booking forms, 1999, 2001-2006.
• copies of ‘Conference news’ 2005-2006, annotated on front cover

Emails on asbestos news from Mick Holder, July-August 2006.

Includes updates on directory entry for OEDA.

Correspondence and papers re policy and regulations covering war pensions, compensation from the Ministry of Defence for asbestos-related diseases, and exemption from inheritance tax in case of death from conditions attributable to war service.

Includes listing of 'Forces cases' with asbestos-related diseases, including diagnosis.

Further includes copies of 'Veterans world: newsletter for all those who serve the ex-Service community', 2006, and press coverage 1982-2006.

Papers and correspondence (chiefly with Cliff Poole of Bond Pearce LLP) over Alan Robert Matthews v. Ministry of Defence (MOD). Includes

• correspondence re National Forces Asbestos Outrage petition 2006
• copy of opinions of the Lords of appeal for judgement in Matthews v. Ministry of Defence, February 2003
• copy of judgement Matthews v. Ministry of Defence, High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division, 22 January 2002
• press coverage
  Matthews claimed he had sustained personal injury caused by exposure to asbestos while serving in the Royal Navy 1955-1968. However, until 1987 the Crown enjoyed an immunity under section 10 Crown Proceedings Act 1947 from liability in tort for things done by members of the armed forces and for the nature or condition of land, premises, ships, aircraft or vehicles used for their purposes. The repeal (in 1987) of this provision did not help Matthews because it made tort claims possible only for events after 1987.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers (including news reports, HSE publications, fliers, scientific papers on indoor asbestos levels etc.) on the presence of asbestos in schools and on its removal. Includes photocopy SPAID/OEDA index cards on schools, teachers.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage), predominantly 2001-2006, re the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Company site at Rochdale, Greater Manchester). Includes a little correspondence with Jason Addy of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and with Barbara Balmer (daughter of Alan Balmer, asbestos victim). Themes covered include campaigning for compensation, redevelopment of the site, creation of an asbestos memorial for Nellie Kershaw, the first asbestos death on record (d.1924).

Includes a photocopy of 'Turner & Newall: the first fifty years' (c.1970) and other earlier material.

Nancy Tait and her organisation actively engaged with the Disability Alliance in the early 1980s. In 1989 they let membership lapse but continued to purchase the 'Disability Alliance handbook' each year until 2006.

Disability Alliance is a London-based charity currently named Disability Rights UK.

Correspondence and papers, among them news coverage, press reports, scientific papers. Includes:

• correspondence with Belgian journalist Salvatore Nay (with copy of Nay’s contribution to the special issue of the ‘International journal of occupational and environmental health’ (IJOEH), ‘War on asbestos’ vol. 9(3) (2003) on floppy disc); further includes photocopy of a note by Étienne Auribault, Health & Safety Inspector, re asbestos, published in ‘Bulletin de l’inspection du travail’ 1906
• correspondence re the European Union Directive on exposure to asbestos at work and other European health & safety measures
• a little material relating to German Green politician and activist Petra Kelly; the Tait-Kelly correspondence can be consulted in the Petra-Kelly-Archive, Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
• extract from proceedings of the IFF/WHO-EUROPE workshop ‘Cultural factors in worksite health promotion’, ?Linz, Austria, 31 May - 5 June 1987

Salvatore Nay was director of Francophone radio television in Belgium (RTBF) and one of the first in Belgium to reveal the asbestos scandal.

Report by the Careers Service to Strathclyde Business School.

Contains copies of flyers for all concerts performed by the choir between 1980 and 2005.