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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Australia. Includes:

• press cuttings, mostly about sufferers of asbestos-related disease
• ‘Asbestos Kills’ - guide to standards for asbestos removal published by Construction and General Division of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
• copy of Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia booklet

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

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 from the TUC. Includes:

• press releases and newsletters on asbestos
• evaluation of Health and Safety Executive’s asbestos awareness campaign, 1996
• report on seminar on synthetic mineral fibres held at Health and Safety Executive, 1997
• briefing re Workers’ Memorial Day, 2001
• 'Asbestos. Survey and manage asbestos in buildings now. No hiding place.'. Hazards Campaign/TUC guide, c. 2002.

Press cuttings collected by Dalton on environmental and occupational health issues other than asbestos.

Includes:

• papers re strike over asbestos by building workers at Barbican Arts Centre in London, 1976-1977
• letter plus papers to Franklin from John Todd, member of branch committee of Glasgow Insulation Workers branch of TGWU. Todd was a lagger and asbestosis sufferer.

Communications (mainly emails) sent to Dalton and other activists informing them of developments around the world regarding banning asbestos.

Includes statements by Health and Safety Executive, article by Robin Howie and notes by Dalton.

Includes:

• copies of extracts from Hansard relating to Health and Safety at Work Bill, 1974
• article, possibly by Dalton, for Hazards Bulletin, 1976
• correspondence between Dalton and clerk of Select Committee on Employment, Health and Safety at Work Act Subcommittee on investigation of 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, 1981

Includes copy of opening statements, 31 October 1995, in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc trial.

Includes:

• transcript of coroner’s inquest into death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School, 1994
• certificates of air monitoring tests at Plumstead Manor School, 1993
• notes by Dalton of meetings of parents of children at Plumstead Manor School
• press cuttings
• transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ broadcast in 1994
• specification for asbestos removal from Dog Kennel Hill School
• programme and papers from ‘Asbestos and public health’ conference in York, 1984 (includes paper by Dalton)
• report by The Asbestos Institute entitled ‘Ban asbestos zealotry – a gross deception but at what cost to society?’, 1994