The autograph MS of Jude the Obscure, one of the greatest and most controversial of Hardy's novels, was presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by the author in 1911.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1895
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £30,000
Item cost: £176,000
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Item date: 1638
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £250
Item cost: £250
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
A map of the lands of Anthony Fowle in the parishes of Wythiham and Retherfield, in ink and colour on vellum. John Pattenden of Lamberhurst was a noted mapmaker in East Sussex and Kent.
Item date: c.1635
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: £8,000
Institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex
Transcripts of rentals and custumals of manors in the barony of Lewes and other documents relating to Lewes, 1440, 1535-c.1635, compiled by John Rowe, a lawyer (d.1639). The book was published by the Sussex Record Society in 1928.
Item date: 1920s
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £900
Item cost: £11,624
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
Designs, patterns and other papers relating to the Poole Pottery from the 1920s, complementing the main Poole Pottery Archive held by the Dorset History Centre.
Item date: 1705-1824
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,325
Item cost: £1,416,433 (part of a hybrid acceptance-in-lieu arrangement)
Institution: Devon Record Office
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
The political papers and correspondence of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), Home Secretary and Prime Minister, and some earlier family papers.
Item date: 1800-21
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £2,875
Item cost: £7,750
Institution: Barrow-in-Furness Archive
Town/City: Barrow-in-Furness
County: Cumbria
Nine quarto volumes of diaries and commonplaces of William Fleming of Rowe Head, Pennington (1770-1829), a prosperous and literate yeoman farmer living in a small village near Ulverston, Lancashire.
Item date: 1762
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £1,000
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
A volume of 180 vellum leaves serving as a key to John Probert's maps of Doddington and Broughton, the two seats of the Delves Broughton family, already held by Cheshire and Chester Archives.
Item date: 13th century - 1698
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,250
Item cost: £4,800
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
119 deeds and documents, 13th cent - 1698, relating chiefly to Mascy property in Warrington, with a wealth of early topographical and place-name information.
Item date: 1831
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £974
Institution: Tyne and Wear Archives
Town/City: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
County: Tyne and Wear
In 1831 a recently formed Union of Northumberland Miners struck for a wage increase and a shortening of their working hours of 17-18 a day. The present papers mainly comprise letters to the Clerk of the Peace for Northumberland, Mr Thorpe, from Thomas Turnbull, his Deputy Clerk.
Item date: Late 19th and early 20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £33,000
Institution: Sussex University
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex
Family papers of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), comprising correspondence, copies, printed pieces and photographs. Included are manuscript recollections of India, and 34 letters, 1881-1933, from Kipling to his parents John Lockwood and Alice Kipling, and to Edith Plowden, a family friend.