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Display boards visualising the rise of mesothelioma deaths 1968-1979 and 1968-1982, including the proportion awarded industrial death benefit.

Missing both SPAID and OEDA label.

Correspondence (with the SPAID trustees) and papers, among them IYPD News, press releases, promotional material, information leaflets and posters.

• correspondence chiefly with John Todd re how he and his fellow laggers are affected by asbestos and re his awareness raising campaign; also with the TGWU, health and safety experts, the media
• correspondence with Margaret Bain (MP East Dunbartonshire) and John Healey (of Leven, Fife)
• photocopies of John Todd's correspondence with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the environmental health department of the city of Glasgow, the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), various newspapers, and the TGWU
• press coverage 1974-1976 and other papers

Soft-bound set of industry brochures, compiled for the '1983 building industry convention', London, 25-29 April 1983.

Correspondence including a mailshot to all GMWU Thermal Insation Engineer (TIE) Officers in the regions inquiring what advice they give re stripping of asbestos, 29 July 1982.

Successive versions of John Todd's compilation on asbestos victims from the Glasgow branch of the TGWU, 1975-1983, and correspondence with the victims 1967-1979.

• copy of soft-bound conference programme, annotated, with list of participants

The meeting took place at the Royal Institute of British Architects and the National Federation of Building Trade Employers (NFBTE) Cavendish Conference Centre. Nancy Tait and two students on placement with SPAID (Eleni Michael and M Routhorn) attended.

Copy of Federal Register (4 November 1983), OSHA, 29 CFR Part 1910.

A photocopy of this inscribed (in Nancy Tait's hand) 'Is it on America file?' and 'Copy needed for work on GI cancers' was in a research file on gastrointestinal cancer among asbestos workers (q v).

Correspondence, filed in alphabetical order, A-Z by surname, dating from 1980-1983.
The annotations at the top of the letters read 'Individual correspondence' and the surname of the correspondent.

Includes topics of correspondence such as:
-building a network of contacts to support cases
-subscriptions to SPAID news
-thanks to Moira Anderson for her programme on asbestos
-blue asbestos research
-EEC Directives
-the presence of asbestos in buildings
-SPAID fellowship
-the SPAID newsletter
-people seeking information for cases
-students seeking information for dissertations

Mainly copies of outgoing correspondence but some incoming correspondence.

In reverse chronological order. Includes

• photocopy of communication from the Greater London Council (GLC), 29 July 1983, informing Nancy Tait that the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee of the Council resolved to make SPAID a grant of up to £31,365.
• reports to the trustees, 11 November 1981, 14 July 1982 and October 1983
• agenda and papers for meeting of trustees, 15 November 1979
• minutes of a meeting of trustees, 25 October 1978
• drafts and final version of the deed of trust

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Lord Avebury. Includes some case information.

English politician Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury (1928-2016) served as a SPAID trustee from 1978 to the end of 1989.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Major General H A Lascelles.

Henry Anthony Lascelles (1912-2000) was director-general of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 1967-1980.

Copies of Home Office circulars relating to coroners, 1954-1982, and of 'Home Office statistical bulletin' 1982, 1983 (Coroners' statistics: England and Wales). In reverse chronological order.

Correspondence and papers (including conference programme and list of participants) re BOHS ‘Fifth international symposium on inhaled particles’, Cardiff, 8-12 September 1980. Evidence that Nancy Tait attended or intended to do so is elsewhere in the archive.

Includes

• correspondence with legal scholar Richard Lewis, University College Cardiff, 21 July 1983, re his article ‘Compensation for occupational disease’
• correspondence arising from Nancy Tait’s interest in using illustrations of one of the conference papers (J C Wagner et al., ‘A pathological and mineralogical study of asbestos-related deaths in the United Kingdom in 1977’) for a SPAID note on the Kemp case. Arthur Leonard Kemp (d.1978 aged 69 of respiratory disease) had worked as a shipwright at H M Dockyard, Chatham, Kent 1937-1973; see Albert Henry Smith (executor of A L Kemp) v. MOD, 1981, High Court of Justice Queens Bench Division
• bulk of this file is a set of draft papers of the ten conference sessions

Correspondence and papers re meeting ‘Asbestos – what next?’, Grand Committee Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament on 20 October 1982. The meeting was sponsored and arranged with SPAID by Nigel Spearing MP, Jack Ashley MP and Alan Clark MP. It focused on prevention (controls to protect workers and the general public) and help (for victims) regarding the threat posed by asbestos in home and environment. These and absence of control limits were issues not addressed by the recent Simpson Committee.

Structured as follows:

• report on the meeting, SPAID discussion paper, list of those invited and signature sheet of those who attended, correspondence with MPs
• correspondence arising from the meeting, October 1982 - January 1983
• correspondence July to October 1982 (prior to the meeting)
• papers c. 1971-1982