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Labours of the Months: Norwich’s newly-acquired medieval stained glass (4 March 2012)

Home of iconic First World War poet saved for nation (1 March 2012)

Dr Manon Williams appointed to Board of HLF and NHMF (11 January 2012)

Unique William Beckford survival saved for the nation (15 November 2011)

Vital grant to save rare Anglo-Saxon gold for nation (15 November 2011)

18th century silver wine cooler saved for the nation (24 October 2011)

Call to action! Four trustees sought for National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund (16 September 2011)

British Library announces £9m campaign to acquire the St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest intact European book (14 July 2011)

Saved for the Nation: Bodleian acquires the last Jane Austen manuscript (14 July 2011)

Britain’s most important Roman town saved for the nation (8 July 2011)

Bodleian Libraries acquire Sir Edward Heath Archive (16 June 2011)

New Trustees announced for the National Heritage Memorial Fund (20 May 2011)

Two treasure hoards saved for nation on same day (21 March 2011)

Generous donations allow the British Museum to acquire historic ivories from ancient Assyria (7 March 2011)

Eleventh hour rescue of Turing collection (25 February 2011)

Rare Burges furniture with literary connections acquired for Bedford (24 January 2011)

Brueghel Old Master saved for nation (5 January 2011)

Ashmolean Museum Acquires A Hoard Of Angels This Christmas (7 December 2010)

NHMF: 30 years of saving our most important heritage (8 October 2010)

Rare collection of mezzotints saved for the nation (3 October 2010)

Iconic Painting of Penzance by Stanhope Forbes saved for the nation (26 August 2010)

Funding for most significant building ‘at risk’ in Wales (4 August 2010)

Oxford and Canterbury join forces to save a masterpiece of English Romantic painting for the nation (12 July 2010)

Saved for the nation: Bodleian Libraries acquire Sir Edward Heath Archive (16 June 2010)

Significant support secures Dyce for Wales (15 June 2010)

Broadlands Archive Hits Fundraising Target thanks to National Heritage Memorial Fund Grant (4 June 2010)

Letters by Iris Murdoch (25 April 2010)

British Library successfully stops English naval explorer’s journal from sailing abroad (30 March 2010)

£1.285million National Heritage Memorial Fund grant saves the Staffordshire Hoard (23 March 2010)

The Stepney Chinese porcelain armorial service delivered (15 March 2010)

Victory for last operational World War II motor boats (9 February 2010)

National Heritage Memorial Fund awards £550,000 to help save Siegfried Sassoon’s archive (4 November 2009)

Stepney Chase Armorial Dinner Service (12 August 2009)

A is for Acquisition, B is for British Library, C is for Conservation (30 July 2009)

Important British treasure saved for Jewish museum London (21 July 2009)

V&A acquires a ‘Scandal’ by leading British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger (18 April 2009)

Titanic designs saved for the nation (28 January 2009)

National Portrait gallery acquires tudor double portrait - a gem of matriarchal power (3 December 2008)

Rare ‘recycled’ coronation silver saved for the nation (3 December 2008)

NHMF awards £10million to help save masterpeice (19 November 2008)

Rare Joseph Wright of Derby portrait of Richard Arkwright is acquired by London and Preston (17 November 2008)

Medal saved for the nation (21 October 2008)

Rare Banqueting House sketch saved for the nation (8 October 2008)

British Library acquires the Dering Roll (2 September 2008)

British Museum second time lucky in securing astrolabe quadrant (30 July 2008)

Exhibition unveiled in Parliament in honour of our fallen heroes (24 June 2008)

Charles Townley returns to Towneley Hall (12 March 2008)

New £125million national collection will bring contemporary art to audiences across Britain (24 February 2008)

National Army Museum close to saving General Wolfe (21 February 2008)

Mary Queen of Scot's execution warrent saved for the nation (19 February 2008)

"Gillow masterpiece" returns home (30 January 2008)

Prime Minister's papers saved for the nation (15 January 2008)

Good news for the heritage (15 January 2008)

Roman Antiquities Saved (26 December 2007)

Pinter Archive Saved (11 December 2007)

Tocheres Reunited (29 August 2007)

Jade Axe Stays in the UK (30 July 2007)

Dumfries House Saved (27 June 2007)

Aerial Photo Collection Saved (15 June 2007)

Rare Painting Saved (12 June 2007)

The Ashmolean Museum acquires a magnificent porcelain centrepiece (5 March 2007)

Turner’s Blue Rigi saved for the nation (1 March 2007)

Anglo-Saxon find acquired (5 January 2007)

Style Icon - 200 years B.C. (29 December 2006)

Medieval Panel Show (8 December 2006)

Scottish beauty goes public (8 November 2006)

Ashmolean Unveils Acquisitions (7 September 2006)

Coleridge Archive Saved (21 August 2006)

Tate to hang Hayman (8 August 2006)

Steamboats Saved (4 August 2006)

World’s biggest collection of Darwin’s work comes to the Natural History Museum (8 June 2006)

Outstanding Elizabethan music manuscript saved for the nation (5 June 2006)

John Donne Secured (2 May 2006)

Physicians save 17th century silver fruit dish (27 February 2006)

Unique Anglo-Saxon gold coin acquired by the British Museum (8 February 2006)

Outstanding Tudor Manuscripts Saved for the Nation (23 January 2006)

Ulster Museum Event (8 December 2005)

Unique Turner Painting Rescued (6 December 2005)

Maynard Keynes Returns (18 November 2005)

In Remembrance (10 November 2005)

Loyd Grossman on the NHMF (17 October 2005)

British Museum hosts NHMF exhibition (10 October 2005)

National Heritage Memorial Fund - 25 years in the frame (24 September 2005)

National Gallery to Host NHMF Exhibition (5 August 2005)

NHMF helps Tate to save ‘The Archers’ (20 July 2005)

Silver celebrations for the nation’s heritage (15 July 2005)

Ringing the changes at Nostell Priory to celebrate 25 years of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (29 June 2005)

RIBA Drawings Collection acquires Hawksmoor model (19 May 2005)

NHMF's Silver Jubilee (1 March 2005)

Macclesfield Psalter Saved for the Nation (24 January 2005)

Acquisition - a portrait of Thomas Howard (25 November 2004)

Memorial to Women of World War II (29 April 2004)

Flying Scotsman Saved for the Nation (5 April 2004)

National Heritage Memorial Fund boost Academy’s Viotti appeal (24 March 2004)

Queen Nerfititi’s daughter seen for first time thanks to NHMF grant (30 September 2003)

National Heritage Memorial Fund given clean bill of health by government (2 July 2003)

Unprecedented grant from ‘fund of last resort’ secures Tyntesfield for the nation (19 March 2003)

Foundling Museum to acquire Hogarth’s ‘The March of the Guards to Finchley’ (13 June 2002)

The Cabinet War Rooms (29 November 2001)

The UK National Inventory of War Memorials (8 November 2001)

21 years of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (16 July 2001)

The Gothic screen at Hereford Cathedral (14 April 2001)

NHMF twentieth anniversary press information (8 April 2000)

Bronze age neckrings for the Dorset County Museum (8 April 2000)

Acquisition of Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackelton artefacts for the the National Maritime Museum (16 September 1999)

HMS Cavalier to Berth in Chatham (23 July 1998)

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