Grants awarded in 2010

A portfolio of 24 drawings, fourteen of Rufford Abbey, five of Ollerton Hall, three of a proposed church at Ollerton, one possibly of Osberton Hall and one unidentified.

The substantial records of a prominent Devon landed family.

Twenty-five letters from Disraeli to his loyal supporter Sir Henry Stracey, MP (1802-85), containing comments on current affairs, and exhibiting his consummate skills as a politician, party manager

Details: The library collections at Belton, Lincolnshire, are among the finest in any National Trust house.

This fine charter is a confirmation of a grant of nine bovates of land in Eakring, Nottinghamshire by Matthew, Abbott of Rufford, to Osbert de Capella and Emma his wife.

The deed of exchange and its accompanying maps document the consolidation of the estates respectively of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt.

Clare Skinner writes: In 2009 we were able to secure ten out of twenty-three lots, comprising 95 deeds, with the kind assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries and Wiltshire Family Histor

1. A rental of the Corfe Mullen estate of Sir John Coventry, 1859-1863.

This is a third tranche, added to Cheshire Archives' existing holdings of records of this important family, comprising court rolls of the Manor of Rixton with Glazebrook, 1717-1835, title deed

This is the only leaf known to survive from an otherwise lost 9th-century copy of Bede's Homilies on the Gospels.

Charles Grey was a London associate of a firm of Alnwick attorneys named Adams; the firm's papers were the subject of the above sale.

A printed map of the River Tyne from Heddon on the Wall to the sea in two sections, evidently produced in connection with a disputed proposal to erect a ballast shore at Jarrow Slake.

A volume of over 400 pages, containing detailed maps of each farm on the estate (which extended to 4000 acres in half a dozen parishes, including those elements in Yorkshire and Ireland), cut from

Peter Crosthwaite had a varied and extraordinary career as a navigator, excise agent, inventor, social reformer and entertainer.

Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire, the ancestral home of the Massingberd family, housed an interesting library, of which, remarkably, many hundreds still survive in situ.

A volume containing seven very rare catalogues for art sales which took place in the Low Countries between 1767 and 1777, as well as extracts in manuscript for three further sales.

Bruce Castle Museum is a 16th century manor house in Tottenham, formerly known as Lordship House, which now houses the museum and archives for the London Borough of Haringey.

Thomas Cecil Howitt (1889 - 1968) was one of the leading provincial architects of his day.

Approximately 200 poetry manuscripts of varying dates and formats, written in Blunden's calligraphic hand on the versos of college announcements, together with exam papers, auction catalogues,

John Blakemore, Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Derby, is a world-renowned artist/photographer whose work encompassing a wealth of aspects from landscape and portraits to sup

Miss Catherine McMahon writes: In 2010, the British Library acquired the archive of  Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) with generous support from Friends of the National Libraries

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is an outstanding figure in post-1945 British and world theatre.

The archive of the Enys family of St Gluvias, Penryn, on deposit at Cornwall Record Office for over 40 years, comprises 80 boxes of papers and c.

The Rice Archive is a comprehensive record of one of Kent’s substantial farming families, extending from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

These two unpublished letters give fresh insights into different stages of Wordsworth’s life.