Friends of the Nations' Libraries — grant history
Latest income
£458k
Grants listed (FY2025)
63
Listed grants total
£352k
Accounts grants total
£387k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Religious Activities
- Other Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Economic/community Development/employment
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Cambridgeshire
- Italy
- Malaysia
- Oxfordshire
- Somerset
- Throughout England
- United Arab Emirates
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury Cathedral | FY2025 | £33k | Funding for a scholarly catalogue of medieval manuscripts and engagement activities (Restricted Donation/Sarum Bible) |
| The British Library | FY2025 | £20k | Acquisition of five pre-eminent manuscripts from Longleat House |
| Birmingham University: Cadbury Research Library | FY2025 | £20k | Papers of Lady Clarissa Eden |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2025 | £20k | Acquisition of ‘Argumenta in Librum Geneseos …’ by Esther Inglis (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Glasgow Life | FY2025 | £20k | Acquisition of Archive of Alasdair Gray (awarded/accounted in 2024, paid in 2025) |
| Cambridge University Library | FY2025 | £20k | Acquisition of Charles Darwin material from the collection of W.B. Tegetmeier (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Liverpool University | FY2025 | £20k | Acquisition of the second tranche of the literary archive created by Roger McGough (Philip Larkin Fund) |
| South West Heritage Trust | FY2025 | £18k | Acquisition of an important map of Kingsbridge in Devon |
| Chawton House Library, Chawton | FY2025 | £15k | Collection of 30 letters by 19th-century women writers |
| Beckford’s Tower and Museum, Bath | FY2025 | £12k | Acquisition of books from the library formed by Barry Humphries (Unwin Fund) |
| Nairn Museum, Highlands | FY2025 | £12k | Acquisition of archives from Kilravock Castle |
| The Royal College of Surgeons of England | FY2025 | £11k | Acquisition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2025 | £10k | Acquisition of literary papers of Kathleen Jamie |
| The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association | FY2025 | £10k | Acquisition of an autograph letter of Mary Shelley (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Lambeth Palace Library | FY2025 | £9k | Acquisition of a volume concerning Henry VIII’s divorce |
| The National Gallery Library | FY2025 | £8k | Acquisition of Leonardo da Vinci’s A Treatise of Painting and J.B. Boudard’s Iconologie |
| Merton College, Oxford | FY2025 | £7k | Acquisition of a manuscript booklet of astronomical tables |
| Erasmus Darwin House | FY2025 | £7k | Acquisition of correspondence between Erasmus Darwin and William Strutt (John R. Murray Fund) |
| The Institution of Civil Engineers | FY2025 | £6k | Acquisition of the notebook of James Brindley |
| St John’s College, Cambridge | FY2025 | £6k | Acquisition of Jane Wallas Penfold’s Madeira Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns |
| Hampshire Archives | FY2025 | £6k | Acquisition of the Bigg-Wither Archive |
| East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office | FY2025 | £5k | Acquisition of a letter from Eric Ravilious |
| King’s College Cambridge | FY2025 | £5k | Acquisition of letters and documents from the estate of Norman Routledge (E.M. Forster) |
| Herefordshire Museums & Galleries | FY2025 | £4k | Acquisition of editions of Thomas Andrew Knight’s Pomona Herefordiensis (John R. Murray Fund) |
| The National Library of Wales | FY2025 | £4k | Acquisition of Captain Charles Johnson’s A general history of the pyrates |
| The Royal College of Physicians Heritage Library | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of François Umeau’s In circulationem sanguinis Harveïanam exercitatio anatomica |
| Gilbert White’s House and Gardens | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of a letter of 1777 by Gilbert White |
| Aberdeen University, University Collections | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of Thucydides’s L’hystoire de Thucydide Athenien |
| Lambeth Palace Library | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of an early 15th-century devotional manuscript |
| Senate House Library, University of London | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of pamphlets and material relating to tenants’ rights in London |
| York Archives and Libraries | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of the incident notebook of PC William Pearson |
| Thomas Plume’s Library, Maldon, Essex | FY2025 | £3k | Return of three 17th-century books from Plume’s original collection |
| Royal Berkshire Archives | FY2025 | £3k | Acquisition of documents relating to the Barrington family and Beckett House |
| East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office | FY2025 | £2k | Acquisition of a letter from Edward Gibbon |
| Essex Record Office | FY2025 | £2k | Acquisition of a volume of manuscript copies of deeds of land in Belchamp St Paul |
| Highland Archives | FY2025 | £2k | Acquisition of legal and financial documents relating to Hay of Lochloy and Park |
| Bruce Castle Museum and Archive | FY2025 | £2k | Return of Pieter van Foreest’s Observationum et curationum medicinalium |
| Leeds University | FY2025 | £2k | Acquisition of a scrapbook and commonplace book compiled by the Revd W.M. Pierce |
| St John’s College, Cambridge | FY2025 | £1k | Return of a two-volume edition of Erasmus’ Paraphrases |
| Essex Record Office | FY2025 | £1k | Acquisition of medical notes of Dr Jonas Asplin |
| West Sussex Record Office | FY2025 | £1k | Acquisition of police ledgers and legal documents |
| The Charles Dickens Museum | FY2025 | £1k | Acquisition of a letter from Charles Dickens to Pauline Viardot |
| Highland Archives | FY2025 | £960 | Acquisition of an Adjutant’s Orderly Book of the 2nd Battalion Caithness Volunteers |
| The Wiener Holocaust Library, London | FY2025 | £959 | Acquisition of Chansonnier à Buchenwald |
| Dorset History Centre | FY2025 | £943 | Acquisition of ‘A Short Narrative of the Life of Giles Lawrence Roberts M.D.’ |
| Gladstone’s Library | FY2025 | £800 | Acquisition of letters written from the Demerara Estate owned by John Gladstone |
| Montrose Museum | FY2025 | £746 | Acquisition of a Book of Common Prayer (1632) |
| City of Doncaster Archives | FY2025 | £704 | Acquisition of a volume of witness statements given at Doncaster Coroner’s Court |
| West Sussex Record Office | FY2025 | £492 | Acquisition of a warrant between William Cecil and John Aylwyn (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Essex Record Office | FY2025 | £452 | Acquisition of a mixed lot containing items of Essex interest (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Kresen Kernow | FY2025 | £450 | Acquisition of a manorial survey book for the manor of Ashton Barret |
| Cambridgeshire Archives | FY2025 | £350 | Acquisition of a terrier of the property of John Chettoe |
| The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon | FY2025 | £329 | Acquisition of Isabella Geffrey’s manuscript release and quitclaim (John R. Murray Fund) |
| West Sussex Record Office | FY2025 | £320 | Acquisition of Minutes of the Court of Sewers for the Rape of Arundel |
| Essex Record Office | FY2025 | £308 | Acquisition of a lot of 92 vellum indentures (distribution to 45 record offices) |
| East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office | FY2025 | £265 | Acquisition of a Police occurrence book for Eastbourne |
| Perth and Kinross Archives (Culture Perth & Kinross) | FY2025 | £263 | Acquisition of The Godfrey Bingley Collection (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Dorset History Centre | FY2025 | £248 | Acquisition of a Notarial Protest Book recording declarations by ships’ masters at Poole |
| Dorset History Centre | FY2025 | £175 | Acquisition of ‘A New Song addressed to the Loyal Volunteers of Burton Bradstock’ |
| Peterborough Archive Services | FY2025 | £169 | Acquisition of 28 volumes of architects’ notes and sketchbooks |
| North East Wales Archives | FY2025 | £149 | Acquisition of eleven lithograph maps from a Boundary Commission Report (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Hull History Centre | FY2025 | £77 | Acquisition of 20th-century photographs relating to Hull and Immingham Docks |
| North East Wales Archives | FY2025 | £77 | Acquisition of a map of the Gwysaney Estate (John R. Murray Fund) |
| Salisbury Cathedral Library | FY2024 | £90k | Sarum Master Bible |
| Cambridge University Library | FY2024 | £25k | Archive of Amy Levy |
| University College London | FY2024 | £20k | Victor Gollancz Ltd Archive relating to George Orwell |
| The British Library | FY2024 | £20k | Letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| St Andrews University Libraries and Museums | FY2024 | £20k | Manuscript copy of John Mair’s ‘Historia Maioris Britanniae’ |
| The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford | FY2024 | £20k | Old French New Testament |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2024 | £20k | Literary and personal papers of Jackie Kay |
| King’s College, Cambridge | FY2024 | £20k | Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers |
| Derbyshire Record Office | FY2024 | £16k | Archive of Holmes & Co Carriage Builders |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2024 | £13k | Letters of David Hume |
| Emery Walker Trust, Hammersmith | FY2024 | £10k | The English Bible, five volumes |
| The University of Manchester – The John Rylands Library and Manchester Museum | FY2024 | £10k | Author’s copy of A History of the Birds of Europe by Henry Eeles Dresser |
| The National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Cymru) | FY2024 | £10k | The Thomas Sims Collection of photographs |
| Senate House Library, University of London | FY2024 | £8k | Ambigué Magique |
| Perth Art Gallery (Culture Perth and Kinross) | FY2024 | £6k | Architectural and portrait photograph album |
| The Wordsworth Trust | FY2024 | £6k | Collection of manuscripts relating to Peter Crosthwaite’s Museum |
| Essex Record Office | FY2024 | £6k | Survey of the estates in Essex of Robert Rich |
| The Royal Berkshire Archives | FY2024 | £5k | Receipt and commonplace book for Mrs Hunter |
| Cambridge University Library | FY2024 | £5k | Japanese illustrated books from the library of Eugène Gillet |
| Perth & Kinross Archive (Culture Perth and Kinross) | FY2024 | £5k | Manuscript exercise books by Francis Cunynghame |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2024 | £5k | Complete working manuscript of ‘Halidon Hill’ by Sir Walter Scott |
| Nottingham University | FY2024 | £5k | Artworks by Knud Merrild |
| York Minster Library | FY2024 | £5k | Manuscript by Thomas Gale |
| The National Gallery Library | FY2024 | £5k | Édouard Manet, Catalogue des tableaux |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2024 | £4k | Signal book, Letter of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish songbook |
| Christ Church, Oxford | FY2024 | £4k | Robert Burton’s copy of Michael Scot |
| Nottingham University | FY2024 | £3k | Letters from D. H. Lawrence to Harwood Brewster |
| The Warburg Institute, University of London | FY2024 | £3k | Cookery books from the library of Elizabeth David |
| Dorset History Centre | FY2024 | £3k | Fair copy manuscript of ‘The Departure’ by Thomas Hardy |
| Congleton Museum | FY2024 | £3k | Archive of Sir Thomas Reade |
| Essex Record Office | FY2024 | £3k | Medieval and early modern deeds of Essex |
| Essex Record Office | FY2024 | £3k | Medieval and early modern deeds of Essex |
| Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library | FY2024 | £2k | Autograph letter by Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Thomas Plume’s Library, Maldon, Essex | FY2024 | £2k | Thomas Vaughan, Magia Adamica |
| Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library | FY2024 | £2k | Manuscript diary of William Henry Longhurst |
| The Ted Lewis Centre, Barton-upon-Humber | FY2024 | £2k | Handwritten draft article by Ted Lewis |
| Derbyshire Record Office | FY2024 | £1k | ‘A Tour through Derbyshire’ by Francis Robert Raines |
| Northumberland Archives | FY2024 | £1k | Records of the Company of Merchants and Taylors of Morpeth |
| Chetham’s Library, Manchester | FY2024 | £1k | Triple-sided rotating fob seal |
| Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre | FY2024 | £1k | Documents relating to the Eyre-Matcham family |
| The RIBA Library, London | FY2024 | £1k | Letters written by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey |
| The Edward Thomas Fellowship and their Centre at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery | FY2024 | £700 | First edition of A Second Book of Drawings by James Guthrie |
| The Edward Thomas Fellowship and their Centre at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery | FY2024 | £700 | Autograph manuscript letter by Edward Thomas |
| Kresen Kernow (Archives and Cornish Studies Service) | FY2024 | £629 | Manorial court book, Manor of Ventongimps |
| Essex Record Office | FY2024 | £620 | Medieval and early modern deeds of Essex |
| Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre | FY2024 | £575 | Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital Report |
| Derbyshire Record Office | FY2024 | £525 | Letter to William Philp Perrin |
| The Edward Thomas Fellowship and their Centre at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery | FY2024 | £500 | Autograph manuscript letter by Edward Thomas |
| Bruce Castle Museum & Archive, Tottenham | FY2024 | £450 | Presentation copy of Horace’s Art of Poetry |
| The National Trust, Montacute House, Somerset | FY2024 | £438 | John Evelyn, Sylva |
| The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Archives | FY2024 | £430 | Lease by James Weller Ladbroke to John Drew |
| The RIBA Library, London | FY2024 | £363 | Letters addressed to Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt |
| Carmarthenshire Archives | FY2024 | £54 | Land Tax Return |
| The Holst Victorian House, Cheltenham | FY2023 | £20k | Louise Dyer Archive |
| Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford | FY2023 | £20k | Archive of Raymond Chandler |
| Greater Manchester County Record Office | FY2023 | £20k | Assheton of Middleton Estate Collection |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2023 | £20k | Four letters of David Hume to Horace Walpole |
| Showtown, Blackpool | FY2023 | £20k | The Charlie Cairoli Collection |
| Derbyshire Record Office | FY2023 | £18k | Records of the Manor of Duffield Fee |
| The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield | FY2023 | £17k | Autograph letter written by Dr Samuel Johnson to Sophia Thrale |
| Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham | FY2023 | £14k | Ten items relating to the Eyre-Matcham family |
| York Minster Library | FY2023 | £14k | Manuale quoddam secundum usum matris ecclesie Eboracensis |
| Kent University Special Collections and Archives | FY2023 | £10k | Lawrie Siggs Cartoon Archive |
| Leeds University Libraries, Special Collections & Galleries | FY2023 | £8k | Manuscript ‘A pamflyt compiled of Cheese’ |
| Wiltshire Museum | FY2023 | £7k | Signed First Edition of Tropic Death |
| York University | FY2023 | £7k | Archive of John Cole |
| Cambridge University Library | FY2023 | £6k | La folie des hommes, ou, Le monde à rebours |
| South West Heritage Trust: Devon Archive Service | FY2023 | £5k | The Wykes photographic archive |
| Moseley Old Hall, National Trust | FY2023 | £5k | Missale Romanum (Paris, 1623) |
| The Garden Museum, London | FY2023 | £4k | Carnations Cultivated by Richard Hammond |
| Kresen Kernow, Cornwall Archives and Local Studies Service | FY2023 | £4k | Manorial records of Arwenack and other associated Manors |
| Thomas Plume’s Library, Malden, Essex | FY2023 | £4k | Four missing volumes from Thomas Plume’s library |
| West Sussex Record Office | FY2023 | £4k | Title deeds and papers relating to the Great House Estate, West Hoathly |
| Griffith Institute, University of Oxford | FY2023 | £3k | Album of Watercolours and Images of Edward William Lane |
| The Royal Society | FY2023 | £3k | Collection of letters and manuscripts relating to the Herschel family |
| The Royal Academy | FY2023 | £3k | The Exhibition Stare Case |
| The Library of University College, Oxford | FY2023 | £3k | Three volumes containing eight issues of The Savoy periodical |
| Charles Dickens Museum, London | FY2023 | £3k | Archive of letters from Georgina Hogarth to Charles Kent |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2023 | £3k | Jane Porter, Thaddeus of Warsaw |
| Glamorgan Archives | FY2023 | £3k | Manuscript Book of Reference to the Maps of the Manors of St Donats and Sully |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2023 | £3k | Autograph manuscript fragment of a diary of Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Royal College of Physicians Heritage Library | FY2023 | £3k | A voyage to and from the island of Borneo |
| The Foundling Museum, London | FY2023 | £2k | The Child She Bare by A Foundling |
| Jane Austen’s House, Chawton, Hampshire | FY2023 | £2k | Biographical manuscript of Admiral Sir Francis William Austen and album of sketches |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2023 | £2k | Autograph letter from Robert Louis Stevenson to James Cunningham |
| Dorset History Centre | FY2023 | £2k | Letter from Thomas Hardy |
| The National Library of Scotland | FY2023 | £2k | Indenture for the Camden Estate, Trinidad |
| West Sussex Record Office | FY2023 | £1k | Diary of Hugh de Sélincourt, 1939-1940 |
| South West Heritage Trust: Devon Archive Service | FY2023 | £1k | Eleven volumes of estate accounts relating to the Seale family estate |
| Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre | FY2023 | £943 | Map of St Pancras Parish |
| The Royal Berkshire Archives, Reading | FY2023 | £768 | Hand-drawn colour plan of Upper House Farm, Basildon |
| Kresen Kernow, Cornwall Archives and Local Studies Service | FY2023 | £550 | Volume of rates and accounts for the Surveyors of the Highways St Minver parish |
| Shropshire Archives | FY2023 | £504 | Early deeds of Shropshire relating to the Topp family |
| Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery | FY2023 | £500 | Art of This Century |
| Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives | FY2023 | £500 | Plans of His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen |
| Shropshire Archives | FY2023 | £500 | Survey of the lands of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn |
| Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham | FY2023 | £450 | Account book relating to Swindon Town Football Club’s account with Lloyds Bank |
| St Paul’s School Archives | FY2023 | £400 | Correspondence from Peter Winckworth |
| Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery: Edward Thomas Study Centre | FY2023 | £375 | First edition publication of Polyphemus and Other Poems |
| Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby | FY2023 | £307 | Manuscript navigation workbook and journal |