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.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1920s
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £900
Item cost: £11,624
Institution: Dorset History Centre
Town/City: Dorchester
County: Dorset
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: 1857-80
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,500
Item cost: £58,750
Institution: Bodleian Libraries
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
132 letters from Samuel Palmer to Richard Redgrave (1804-88), painter and founder of the Etching Club; his wife Rose (1811-99); their daughters Frances (1845-1932) and Evelyn (1849-1942); and his brother Samuel Redgrave (1802-76), art critic and civil servant.
Item date: 1554
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,631
Item cost: £6,075
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire
Grant by Queen Mary I of lands in northern Flintshire to John David ap Griffyn ap Llewelen, 9 May 1554, with an initial portrait miniature of the Queen.
Item date: 19th - 21st centuries
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,000
Item cost: £175,000
Institution: Glasgow University Library
Town/City: Glasgow
The Glasgow firm of Templeton/Stoddard was the most important manufacturer of high-quality carpet in the British Empire.
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £10,000 (Philip Larkin Fund)
Item cost: £337,000
Institution: Reading University Library
Town/City: Reading
County: Berkshire
Original manuscripts, drafts, letters, diaries and notebooks of Samuel Beckett (1906-89), and a large library of printed books related to him, collected by Professor Knowlson, Beckett's friend and authorised biographer.
Item date: 17th - 19th century
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £750
Item cost: £1,500
Institution: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Town/City: Plymouth
County: Devon
Maristow, seat of the Lords Roborough, was bought in 1798 by Manaesseh Masseh Lopez, only son of Mordecai Rodriguez Lopez, a Sephardic Jew who made a fortune in the sugar plantations.