Harold Pinter's entire extant archive of playscripts and film scripts. The archive joins Pinter's correspondence in the British Library, purchased in 2006.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 20th to 21st centuries
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £20,000
Item cost: £600,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: Late 17th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,900
Item cost: £3,880
Institution: Derbyshire Record Office
The accounts ledger of William Hodgkinson of Overton Hall, Ashover, lead merchant, c. 1668-1700. A record of great rarity, whose export was delayed by the Reviewing Committee on the export of Works of Art to enable its purchase by a British institution.
Item date: 1839
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £863
Item cost: £1,725
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
Seven pen and ink architectural drawings for the new Penzance Union Workhouse in Madron, 1839, with detailed notes on dimensions, fittings and furniture. Signed by G. G. Scott and W(illiam) B(onython) Moffatt , with whom Scott was in partnership, 1838-45, at 20 Spring Gardens, London.
Item date: 13-17th cent.
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £2,750
Institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire
Estate papers of the Pigot Family of Somerford Radnor, 13-17th cent. The Pigots were a leading Cheshire family, and the archive records their connections with other prominent local families such as the Downes of Somerford and the Throstles of Macclesfield.
Item date: 1787
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £300
Item cost: $950
Institution: Chepstow Museum
Town/City: Chepstow
County: Monmouthshire
A justification by Valentine Morris (1727-89) of his conduct during his unsuccessful defence of St Vincent, which was captured by the French in 1779.
Item date: 16th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £3,250
Item cost: £20,000
Institution: Carmarthenshire Archive Service
Town/City: Carmarthen
County: Carmarthenshire
Family and estate papers of the Stepney-Gulston Family, 16-20th cent. Includes manuscripts and diaries of Alan Stepney-Gulston, Victorian poet and novelist, and Josepha Heath-Gulston, the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Talbot Gwynne.
Item date: 1557-60
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £5,000
Item cost: £25,000
Institution: Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office
Town/City: Berwick-upon-Tweed
County: Northumberland
Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 1549-52
Item date: 1987-1994
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £2,000
Item cost: US$15,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library
Town/City: London
Artists' Books in limited editions.
Item date: 1747
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £1,200
Item cost: £3,500
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A previously unrecorded manuscript anti-Jacobite poem, 1747. Nothing is known of the author.
Item date: 1774-1843
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 83,050
Institution: Norfolk Record Office
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
A very extensive archive of letters addressed to William Gunn (1750-1841) of Norfolk, art critic, collector and writer over half a century.