Grants awarded in 1973

11 grants for 1973.

120 manuscript poems

University of London

Contains contributions to magazine of 1860s and 1870s, and some unpublished immature work. Presented by CSA Dobson

Heraldic Manuscript

Northamptonshire Record Society

82 coloured coats of arms taken by Leighe from the stained-glass of All Hallows Church, Northampton, which was destroyed by fire in 1675. Hitherto the heraldry was known only in an uncoloured, undated version in the BL and Bodleian

Map of the battlefield of Waterloo

National Army Museum, Sandhurst

Map 54 x 66cm , prepared by a Belgian engineer WB Craan, engraved by G Jackowick. Presented by Lord Kenyon

Military library and archive of printed books and manuscripts

King's College London

7000 volumes, many of them annotated by Liddell Hart , which were used to form the nucleus of the Centre for Military Archives at Kings College. Also included 270 feet of shelving containing personal papers and correspondence and a further 80 feet of shelves containing a collection of press cuttings on military affairs

Political correspondence

National Library of Scotland

Includes important correspondence with Lord Grey at the time of the Reform Bill crisis

The Old Hall Manuscript: a choir book compiled and written for the Chapel Royal

British Library

This manuscript is the most important source for the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in England. It comprises the oldest collection of English harmony which has survived; 147 compositions, 121 being settings of the Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei of the Mass; the remainder being antiphons and motets.

The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme

Cambridge University Library

A remarkable literary document of the Chartist Movement, written in Stafford Jail where Cooper was imprisoned on charges arising out of the riots of 1842. This is the second editionl issued in penny parts. Presented by John Ehrman