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A Popular History of France

British Library

Presented with 3 other American editions including Nansens Farthest North and Shackletons Heart of the Antarctic by Dr Harley Granville-Barker

A proposal for Discovering our Longitude

National Maritime Museum

Miss Squires method involved dividing up the night sky into over a million small quadrants, the stars located in each then having to be learnt by heart.

A Psalter from Medingen

Bodleian Libraries

This 15th-century Latin manuscript Psalter (with some added German vernacular prayers) from the convent of Medingen is a new addition to the corpus of surviving manuscripts from the Cistercian conv

Medingen Psalter, viewed by FNL members during a visit in 2016

A Register of Glastonbury Abbey

British Library

Vellum bound folio of 290 leaves, detailing manors belonging to Glastonbury Abbey; illustrated as plate I of AR. Egerton MS 3321

A Roll of Manuscript Accounts for the New Forest

Hampshire Record Office

Accounts of John Randolph listing income and expenditure in the six forest bailiwicks together with similar accounts for the manors of Lyndhurst, Burghtone, Minnestoke and Ringwood

A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne Trust

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was the son of a soldier in the army and was born in Clonmel, Co.

The original watercolour drawing by Leloir on the half-title.