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Image: John Ruskin's 'Gothic Book' notebook, 1850. Courtesy of The Ruskin, Lancaster University.

Help find Darwin's missing notebooks

24 Nov 2020

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

15 Nov 2020

11 Jun 2020

7 Feb 2020

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

1 Dec 2019

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

4 Nov 2019

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.

30 Oct 2019

Read about the fascinating visit by FNL members to Winchester College

22 Oct 2019

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

22 Sep 2019

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.

20 Jun 2019

21 Mar 2019