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FNL has launched a campaign to buy the 13th-century Sarum Master Bible and immediately donate it to Salisbury Cathedral Library.

Help us raise £90,000 to buy the stunning 13th-century Sarum Master Bible for Salisbury Cathedral – returning it home after nearly seven centuries.

The literary archive of Jackie Kay has been acquired by the National Library of Scotland with help from FNL

Subtle but important name change for FNL

After nearly 20 years in private collections in the USA Hardy's fair copy manuscript of 'The Departure' returns to Dorset

FNL's Annual Report 2023 has short essays on every acquisition grant awarded during the year.

'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.