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Founded in 1931, FNL has awarded thousands of grants to regional, specialist and national libraries.  With our help they have acquired rare books, manuscripts  archives and fine bindings which are now accessible to all.

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Image: Records relating to the Manor of Tottenham. FNL grant 2013.
Courtesy of Bruce Castle Museum/Haringey Archives.

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British Library

See some of the hundreds of acquisitions made possible by FNL since 1931, including many from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library.
24 Sep 2025 2:30pm

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Front cover of the FNL Annual Report 2024FNL Annual Report 2024

11 Jun 2025

Title on first page of manuscript: 'A pamphlyt compile of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualitie, and goodness, of the same'Curd your enthusiasm....

18 Apr 2025

Papers from Turing's Delilah project archiveAlan Turing archive saved for the nation

8 Apr 2025

Sarum Master Bible, folio 585r. Apocalypse, with initial of St John as a medieval scribe, writing his Revelation.Sarum Master Bible welcomed home

25 Feb 2025
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