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'Blavatnik Honresfield Library: saved for the nation' launched in the historic rooms of John Murray.

The FNL Annual Report is out now!

Discover more about the Scott and Burns items from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library donated by FNL to NLS and Abbotsford.

Caroline Herschel’s handwritten manuscript draft of her memoir has been acquired by the Herschel Museum and is now on display there.

Dr Ed Weech has written about Thomas Manning's extraordinary life.

Read about the collection of Blavatnik Honresfield Library printed books that have been donated to the University of Bristol.

The manuscript will initially be exhibited at St Cecilia’s Hall alongside a lute also dating from c1620.

FNL helps the Bodleian acquire Lupton's 'A thousand notable things of sundrie sorts' (London, 1631).

2021 was an extraordinary year for FNL - read all about it in our Annual Report.

The last Charlotte Brontë miniature manuscript has been saved by FNL

FNL has successfully raised £15 to ensure that the collection will remain permanently in the public domain

FNL's Royal Patron, writing in the Daily Mail, describes FNL's Honresfield Appeal as a 'noble campaign'.

FNL is leading a bid to save Honresfield Library a treasure trove of literary manuscripts.

Stephen Hawking's archive has been acquired by Cambridge University Library and the contents of his office by the Science Museum.

In 2020, FNL gave 39 acquisition grants to institutions across the UK, enabling the enhancement of collections even in the face of a pandemic

FNL has facilitated the gift of the Book of Lismore (C15th) from the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork.

Pembroke College, Cambridge, has acquired the archive of Barrie Cooke, an artist whose closest friends were Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.