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The Inverclyde Ship
GB 249 GB 249 T-WYL/7/13 · File · 2003-2005
Part of George Wyllie papers

Sketches, correspondence, 9 colour photographs, various sizes, documents relating to Inverclyde Arts Foundation, tourist leaflets and photocopies from published histories of the area.

GB 249 FLYNN/3 · Series · 1953-2005
Part of Laurie Flynn papers on the asbestos industry

During his period as an industrial journalist for the 'Socialist Worker', 1972-1978, Flynn worked closely with activists from the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union and with Tom Woolf and John Pickering, both of them W H Thomson solicitors covering lawsuits against Central Asbestos in Bermondsey, London, and Acre Mill in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire (the latter not much documented here).

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers re active medical appeal cases and re appeal procedures.

Correspondents include appellants and administrators, among them Mr Edward Smith of North London Regional Medical Appeal Tribunal, and Mr Richard Thomas, assistant administrator at the Independent Tribunal Service (ITS), London. Further,

  • correspondence with Prof. Brian Heard (Royal College of Pathologists) re reliance of London Social Medical Boards on Brompton Hospital and the judgement of Prof. Brian Corrin, and re advice on staining techniques to establish histology of a cancer and on the diagnosis of asbestosis and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA)
  • correspondence and papers re reforms of the appeals procedures, 1999, in whose course the ITS came to be replaced by The Appeals Service
  • list of appeals represented by SPAID, "outstanding as at 16 March 1989"
  • list of active cases June-July 1986
  • correspondence re MAT cases 1983-1985

The London North and London South Regions SSAT & MAT was formed in 1991, a merger of the old London North and London South Regions.

'SSAT' stands for Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

Responses to requests for copies of 'Asbestos facts' and unsolicited mailings of the booklet. In alphabetical order by surname of individual or name of organisation. Recipients included concerned members of the public, health professionals, solicitors, union contacts, potential funders of OEDA, asbestos victim support groups, cancer charities and similar, journalists, and students interested in making asbestos a topic of their master's thesis.

Nancy Tait viewed her organisation as an asbestos action group with a research agenda, rather than simply a victims support group. This perception is very much in line with the charity's trust deed, which lists research into the causes, prevention and treatment of asbestos related disease as its primary objective.

By the mid-1970s, the investigations Nancy Tait had begun following her husband's death in 1968 earned her a fellowship from the Churchill Trust, which allowed her to travel and to seek out international specialists in person. She began to publish her own asbestos literature and to testify as an expert witness, initially on the strength of her intimate knowledge of the impact of a mesothelioma diagnosis, but also of her readings, her exchanges with medical and environmental authorities, and her sheer determination to get to the bottom of how asbestos operated on the human body over time.

As SPAID / OEDA developed, Nancy Tait's investigations drew also on a growing knowledge base of case histories, with detailed medical and legal information. From 1988 onwards that knowledge base was enriched by the evidence provided by the SPAID electron microscope laboratory.

There are four series:

  • Research correspondence
  • Expert testimony and consulting
  • Mesothelioma mortality and death certification
  • Criticism of fibre counting

These are followed by smaller aggregations.

Other types of research (e.g. legal, health & safety, industrial injury claims-related, and so forth) can be found throughout the collection, in particular in Sections E (Advocacy) and F (Networking). Research outputs are in OEDA/C/2 (Publications by SPAID / OEDA).

Research correspondence

In roughly chronological order, starting with Nancy Tait's interactions with and concerning the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC).

Tait's asbestos research began as a quest for convincing answers regarding the death of her husband William Ashton Tait, who died of mesothelioma in 1968.

Comparatively little material from the early years (1969-1978) of Tait's investigations survives. Gaps include:

  • Tait's systematic study, begun in 1972, of the state of knowledge regarding the health risks of asbestos, resulting in her publication of 'Asbestos kills' (1976)
  • Tait's application for the Churchill fellowship, awarded to her early in 1976, and correspondence relating to her extensive travels in Europe in 1976
  • growing out of this, correspondence and papers documenting Tait's work with the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) from 1977; much of this, including Nancy Tait's correspondence with Petra Kelly 1976-1981, can be consulted in the Petra Kelly Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin

Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings), 1982-2005, with some earlier material (1973-1979).

Correspondents include

  • eminent scientist Prof Irving Selikoff, Dr Andrew Churg and environmental consultant Barry Castleman
  • lawyers, among them from Armstrong, Gordon, Mitchell & Damiani, Cleveland; Jane B Cantor of Garruto Cantor Trial Lawyers, NJ; Patrick Guilfoyle, Washington; Leonard C Jacque of Jacque Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit; Michael O’Connor; Peters & Peters, Santa Monica; Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina; Speights & Runyan, Attorneys at Law, South Carolina; Wallace & Graham, North Caroina; and Marc P Weingarten of Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia
  • also Dwight E Brown of Asbestos Hazards Programs
  • writer Paul Brodeur

Includes

  • copy of documents relating to the Ahearn class action: US District Court, Eastern District of Texas [c.1993] 'Overview of and questions & answers on the global settlement agreement and the Ahearn class action'; copy of notice of class action [c.1994] Gerald Ahearn et al. v. Fibreboard Corporation et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division; and copy of notice of pendency of defendant class action [etc.], Continental Casualty Company et al. v. Daniel Herman Rudd Jr. et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
  • photocopy of court summons Beatrice Angio v. Celotex Corporation (May 1983)
  • magazine articles and press cuttings, including re houses in Laguna Beach and Malibu being spared by recent fires in California, in part due to the use of asbestos tiles, in part due to substituting ice plants for the native sagebrush
  • conference information (participants lists) for 'Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres', Lyon, France, 25-27 September 1979

Continues exchanges begun 1975-1977; see link below.

GB 249 OF/13 · Collection · 1958 - 2005

Departmental teaching handouts, 1958; ephemera, 1967; information on courses, c 1980-1989; teaching materials, 1983-1985; material connected to professional associations and societies, 1988-1992; class notes, 2005; final year student yearbooks, 1988-2004; Apothecary Tales (history of the Department), 1991.

University of Strathclyde | Department of Pharmacy
GB 249 JCE/22/5/2 · Collection · 1939-2005

Notebooks from lectures at Scottish School of Physical Education in anatomy, theory of physical education, history of physical education, hygiene and theory of games, 1942-1945; photographs of Ireland and fellow students on Jordanhill campus and other locations, 1942-1945; school cap and blazer, no date; obituary published in The Reel, 2003.

Ireland, William J., 1924-2002, teacher of Scottish country dance