36 grants for 2016.
The Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading purchase of twenty-two rare agricultural pamphlets from the mid-19th century, which rel
This collection of over 500 titles represents an outstanding survey of known and lesser known medical authors, practices and treatments from the late 17th century to the early decades of the 20th c
This important archive of Heston Aerodrome, Middlesex, documents the construction and early operating of Britain’s first private airport.
A small but fascinating archive of notes and drawings by the painter Charles Mahoney (1903-1968), mostly relating to the murals in the Lady Chapel of Campion Hall, subsidised by Evelyn Waugh, and p
This archive relating to George Walker of Killingbeck is a good fit with one of the jewels in our archival crown, the famous set of 39 original watercolours by Walker which were published as The Co
This autograph letter with envelope from the composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) to Mrs Bell, wife of the Bishop of Chichester, is addressed to her at the Palace, and tells her that he is ‘not sure w
Written by a single hand in a typically Italian Rotunda script of preternatural regularity, the elegance of which is enhanced by still-wide margins, this late 15th century Book of Hours (Use of Rom
This volume contains the first 20 issues of a rare 19th century periodical, the British Guiana Monthly Messenger, and four equally rare 19th century British Guiana pamphlets.
Dickson, Archer & Thorp, solicitors of Alnwick, Northumberland was established in the late 18th century and continued until the death of the last managing partner in 2005.
Formally known as Letters Patent, those signed by the monarch - Royal Letters Patent - are uncommon and this one also has the Great Seal attached to it, reinforcing its importance and legitim
July 1817 saw two deaths – of Jane Austen (1775-1817), an English novelist with a solid but relatively modest success, and of Mme de Staël (1766-1817), a long-standing superstar of pan-European int
Sir Gilbert Clayton was a distinguished soldier and diplomat, serving in North Africa and the Middle East.
A large archive of several hundred letters, notecards, etc., circa 1898-1948, largely comprising large bundles of autograph letters to Sydney Cockerell, or Wilfred Scawen Blunt. Their appeal
In 1960 the Shetland antiquary Edwyn Seymour Reid Tait (1885-1960) bequeathed his book and manuscript collections to the Shetland Library.
This is a beautiful humanist edition of Boccaccio’s most famous work and one of the earliest with illustrations; the 101 woodcuts are copies from the 1492 incunable edition.
Sylvia Lynd played an important role in 20th-century literary culture as a judge for the Book Society (the British equivalent of the American Book-of-the-Month Club) and the Femina Vie Heureuse Pri
In September 2016, the Norfolk Record Office purchased a wide range of documents sold at auction in the Morningthorpe Manor Country House Sale. A keen local collector had accumulated this ecl
Heywood’s drama is e a significant addition to the Guildhall Library's collection of ‘Citizen’ dramas and istthe only copy of this early edition in a public library.
In June 2016 the Curator was alerted to a document being sold at Sotheby’s in July; this was a letter written to the Marquess of Buckingham by Sir George Calvert in November 1622, when Calvert was
Cambridge University Library is very grateful for the grant from the Friends of the National Libraries, which—along with a grant from the Arts Council England/Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Gr
On 15 June 2016, with support from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Charles Dickens Museum successfully bid at Bonham’s for the Pi
The book was written by Virginia Woolf for her lover Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), who was born and brought up at Knole.
In 1886, the artist Norman Garstin (1847-1926) and his wife Louisa joined the blossoming artistic community in Newlyn and Penzance and it became home for them and their three children. All of
The records are a crucial part of Warwick's economic and industrial heritage and a testament to the entrepreneurial and engineering expertise of the local area.
FNL has helped us to ‘bring home’ a manuscript owned by a St Andrews student in the late 16th century, significantly enhancing St Andrews’ holdings of legal manuscripts, which we make accessible fo
This map depicts the manor of Trotton and Cumbers Farm, owned by Laurence [Lawrence] Alcock, lord of the manor of Trotton.
The Monson Papers, an ‘indispensable record of British national life’, has been purchased and incorporated into the collections of Lincolnshire Archives thanks t
In 2016, a collection of the papers of James Watt was donated by the Watt family to the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. The donation was made through Friends of the National Libraries.
With the aid of the Friends of the National Libraries and the Arts Council England/Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, Durham University Libra
Thanks to the FNL and to the Rothschild Foundation, the British Museum has been able to acquire a copy of The Red Book, a record of the work undertaken by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild (1839-1898) at
A two volume copy of The Remains of Henry Kirke White, Of Nottingham, Late of St. John’s College, Cambridge with an account of his life (1810) by Robert Southey.
The application process to apply for funding from the Friends of National Libraries was very straightforward and the decision made within an exceptionally short timeframe.