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A grant from the Friends of the National Libraries enabled Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service to purchase this rare item, issued only a few months into Edward's reign. 

The Lacock Abbey Archive was on deposit at the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, but the owner wished to sell the collection.

This archive had been held on deposit with West Glamorgan Archives Service for more than twenty years and, as a rare survival of engineering drawings from the early period of the industrial revolution, constituted one of our most impor

The Venetian state maintained an historic collection of the finest artillery produced in the Arsenal, but sadly all these pieces were taken by the French in 1798 and all but one were melted down. This makes the work Artiglieria Veneta by the Republic’s last director of artillery, Domenico Gasperoni, all the more important. Gasperoni recorded the collection through the publication in 1779 of 19 beautiful engraved plates, which today form the basis of much of our knowledge of the history of Venetian ordnance.

A copy of this book is listed in the first catalogue of the Plume Library, 1704, but it subsequently went missing. Early in 2013 an opportunity arose to replace it, and with the generous support of The Friends of the National Libraries this has now been done. Philosophicall Poems was published when Plume had been in Christ’s College for only two years. We do not yet know if Plume heard More lecture or preach but the thinking behind these poems may have influenced his earliest formation as a scholar, and the beliefs on which his long career as a minister and archdeacon of the Church of England were founded.

The previously unknown proof with extensive autograph revisions would have been intriguing enough for the Tennyson Research Centre in Lincoln, where there are 200 sets of proofs of Tennyson's poems from his earliest volume through to his last, by far the biggest collection in the world, but it ca

Laurie Lee is perhaps the most famous of the numerous writers who have made the Stroud Valleys their home over the years.  The public venue of the museum service, the Museum in the Park, Stroud, already displays Laurie’s violin, as well as other personal memorabilia and copies of his most well-kn

This collection of over 150 letters and deeds dating from 1604-1777 relates to the Sandford family of Sandford Hall, Shropshire.

Whistler  was one of the most prolific, diverse and popular artists of the interwar years in England.

The two manuscripts now form the nucleus of a remarkable collection of literary and material objects the College has recently assembled relating to its most famous modern literary son.