FNL Annual Report 2023

In FNL's Annual Report 2023 you can read about every grant awarded during the year.  The range of collections acquired with our help could hardly have been more varied,  they included:

• The Charlie Cairoli Collection (1780 to the present) for Showtown, Blackpool;
• The Assheton of Middleton Estate archive (12th-19th century) for Greater Manchester Archives;
• Eric Walrond's Tropic Death, 1926 for Wiltshire Museum;
  
• The Child She Bare, by a Foundling [Hannah Brown], 1919 for the Foundling Museum;
• Captain Daniel Beeckman’s, A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo, in the East Indies, 1714 - which includes the earliest known European illustration of an Orang Utan - for the Royal Society.
• The previously unknown manuscript ‘A pamflyt compiled of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same’, c. 1580s, for the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library.
• Missale Romanum, 1623 - which, with FNL's help, returned to Moseley Old Hall (National Trust).

A total of 60 grants were offered to applicants during the year, the same number as in 2022.  However, not all the recipients were successful at auction, with the result that the actual number of grants awarded for confirmed acquisitions was reduced to 46 with a total value of £261,661.

Just click on the image below to download the annual report.