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: 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: 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.
Item date: 1587
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £72,485
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, was one of two principal commissioners for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Item date: Late 18th and early 19th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £123,500
Institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire
Mary Hamilton, courtier and bluestocking, held a post in the household of George III's daughters, and her diaries and correspondence offer wonderful insights into royal, aristocratic and literary circles.
Item date: 1807-48
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £624
Item cost: £1,247
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
The Sierra Leone papers relate to the activities of George Rickards, who came to Freetown aged 13 in 1802, was engaged as a clerk in the Sierra Leone Company, appointed Secretary to the Governor and Council of Sierra Leone in 1808, held various other posts, and returned to England in 1811.