The Rice Archive is a comprehensive record of one of Kent’s substantial farming families, extending from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 18-20th century
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £10,000
Institution: Centre for Kentish Studies
Town/City: Maidstone
County: Kent
Item date: 1778
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £4,992
Item cost: £6,240
Institution: Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Keswick
County: Cumbria
Peter Crosthwaite had a varied and extraordinary career as a navigator, excise agent, inventor, social reformer and entertainer. He was born in Keswick, joined the East India Company and worked his way from cabin crew to First Navigation Officer.
Item date: 1675
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £600
Item cost: £12,000
Institution: National Trust, Belton House
Town/City: Grantham
County: Lincolnshire
Details: The library collections at Belton, Lincolnshire, are among the finest in any National Trust house. The Library and Study, each containing about 6,000 books, give an almost complete picture of book collecting over 350 years.
Item date: 1254-1998.
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £43,270
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The substantial records of a prominent Devon landed family. The Coffin family is said to have acquired the manor of Alwington soon after the Conquest, but the written record begins with a grant of free warren there to Richard Coffin in 1254.
Item date: c.1782-89.
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £2,500
Item cost: £15,000
Institution: Derby Museums
Town/City: Derby
County: Derbyshire
This little-known collection of nine autograph letters of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) reveals much about the artist’s professional practice and personal friendships.
Item date: 1824
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £750
Item cost: £750
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
The deed of exchange and its accompanying maps document the consolidation of the estates respectively of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. (1770-1844) of Foremark, the reformist politician, and Sir George Crewe (formerly Harpur), 8th Baronet (1795-1844) of Calke.
Item date: 1956-2002
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £3,000
Item cost: £91,695
Institution: Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham
Town/City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands
John Blakemore, Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Derby, is a world-renowned artist/photographer whose work encompassing a wealth of aspects from landscape and portraits to superb printmaking.
Item date: 1940s to 1968
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £15,000 (£5,000 from the Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £400,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Mervyn Peake was one of those rare individuals who achieved eminence as both artist and writer.
Item date: c. 1580
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £3,500
Item cost: £23,500
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), poet and courtier, was one of the most influential literary figures of the Elizabethan age. The pedigree, which was probably commissioned from Robert Cooke by his father, Sir Henry Sidney, is on a long (c.300 cm) vellum roll of five joined sheets.
Item date: 1953-55
Date acquired: 2010
Grant Value: £5,500
Item cost: £18,500
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Approximately 200 poetry manuscripts of varying dates and formats, written in Blunden's calligraphic hand on the versos of college announcements, together with exam papers, auction catalogues, posters, 19th century ledgers, received correspondence and compliments slips, etc.