Grants awarded in December 2014

At their meeting on 1st December 2014 the Trustees awarded grants for the conservation of collections as varied as the archives of the South Wales Miners Federation, the Bankes Archive of Kingston Lacy and a rare Latin-Chinese dictionary.

During 2014 grants totalling nearly £170,000 have been awarded to institutions across the UK.  Grants totalling nearly three-quarters of a million pounds have been awarded by NMCT since 2010.

The grants for projects in Wales have, since 2011, been awarded in collaboration with the Welsh Government through Museums and Archives Wales (CyMAL) and with the support of the Colwinston Trust.  The NMCT's Welsh collaborations have resulted in grants to Welsh conservation projects totalling over £139,000 since 2011.  

Dorset History Centre
Home and Abroad: Opening up the archive of the Bankes family of Kingston Lacy
£18,000

Bodleian Library
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Complaint of Mars and The four Gospels in Latin
£10,000

Royal Asiatic Society
Conservation of Latin-Chinese manuscript dictionaries
£15,000

Argyll Estates
Written in the Landscape: Conserving the Argyll Papers’ Maps and Plans Collection
£15,000

Black Cultural Archive
Adamah family papers
£6,000

Magdalen College Oxford
Conservation and Preservation of Greek Manuscripts at Magdalen College
£10,000

Powys Archives
Welshpool Dispensary Minute Books
£2,948

Richard Burton  Archives   
Union Matters: conserving early records of the South Wales Miners’ Federation
£18,456

Ceredigion Archives
Conservation of the Williams letters.
£3,277

Glamorgan Archives
Of Mouse and Manors: Conservation of Mouse’s Survey of Manors in Glamorgan 
£7,977

Gwynedd Archives Service
Conservation of the Reginald Hallward  Design Collection.
£10,574

10 Dec 2014