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Read about the manuscripts and collections conserved with our help in 2024. From designs to Minton's Majolica ware to Nelson's unwise attempt to catch a Polar Bear, our 2024 annual report has it all!

A special exhibition will be held at Gawthorpe Hall from 24 July to 3 November featuring the 16th-century Shuttleworth Accounts from Gawthorpe Hall. These accounts are a rare survival - they provide an almost complete record of the costs of building one of the finest Elizabethan houses in the north.

The NMCT's 2023 Annual Report includes features on every grant that was awarded in that year. Once again the range of collections conserved in archives and museums around the country is enormous. In the report we also highlight our support for a decades-long project by Lambeth Palace Library to conserve the nationally significant Court of Arches papers.

Watch this fascinating short film about the conservation of the C16th commonplace book of Henry Appleyard, thanks to a major NMCT grant in 2020 NMCT

Read this fascinating article in The Book Collector by NMCT Chair, Professor David McKitterick, about NMCT - its foundations and its support for conservation over four decades. With many examples of the enormously varied range of projects that NMCT has supported over the years and some reflections on the challenges facing custodians of archive collections.

Download the annual report by clicking on the image below.

NMCT has supported manuscript conservation for over 30 years. Read about all the conservation projects that are underway thanks to grants awarded in 2022.

The next deadline for the submission of applications is 3rd April 2023 with the decision in mid-June. If you want to plan ahead, the deadline after that is 1st October 2023. Since 1990 we have awarded grants of over £3.7m towards projects with a total value of over 7.2m. Thanks to our grants many thousands of manuscripts and archives across the UK are accessible to the public and researchers.

This film shows the conservation of the Conisborough Court Rolls dating from the 12th to 15th centuries. The Court Rolls are records of national significance; they are in the collections of Doncaster Archives and were conserved, with a NMCT grant, by the West Yorkshire Archives Service.

This video records the stages in the cleaning and repair of a cartulary made by the monks at Gloucester in 1393.