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

We have raised £7.5m, half way to our target! Please do help us make it to the total so that we can save Honresfield Library for the nation.

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.

The archive was acquired with FNL support and selected parts are now digitised and freely accessible.

Acquired and digitised with FNL support, the Ludlow Roll is now on display until January 2020

The copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover used by the judge in the landmark obscenity trial of 1960 has been acquired by the University with FNL's help.

Read about the fascinating visit by FNL members to Winchester College

Acquired (1931) and digitised (2017) thanks to FNL support

In 2018 FNL awarded over 50 grants to a total value of just under £300,000 - the highest in any year since FNL was founded in 1931.