Grants awarded in 1993

19 grants for 1993.

Collection of Boot and Shoe Patents

Northampton Museums and Galleries

833 titles in 28 volumes. The only known set of patents from the footwear industry to be bound together as an accessible unit.

Commonplace book

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service

Manuscript verse miscellany made by a leading citizen of Lichfield, and relative of Samuel Johnson.

Manuscript letters concerning the Luddite riots in 1812

West Yorkshire Archive Service

Letters written between July and October 1812 when Radcliffe, as magistrate, was active in restoring public order after the machine breaking and violent robberies of the Luddite protestors in the H

Red Book for Heathfield Park

East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office

Repton invented a system of showing his clients before and after effects on their parkland landscapes by means of watercolour pictures with added paper flaps or fliers which could be turned back to

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The Helmingham Breviary

Norwich Castle Museum

Lavishly decorated with historiated intials, including one of the donor kneeling in prayer before the Virgin. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Helmingham Breviary. FNL grant to Norwich Castle Museum 1993.

Two Manuscript letters and one sonnet

Northamptonshire Public Libraries

Both letters written by Clare to his home in Northborough, one during a visit to London, one in his asylum period, the last known from his hand.