The sledge and sledging flag from Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition are the latest items to be saved for the nation by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
The collection, acquired by Pembroke College Cambridge, is a treasure trove of previously unseen poems, personal letters, photographs and literary papers
The work of art is a large sculpture of an anthropomorphic crab made in June 1880 by Robert Wallace Martin (1843-1923) and is the earliest, largest surviving sculpture by him in the UK
The Charles Dickens Museum has acquired more than 300 items from the most substantial private collection of Dickens material in the world including 144 handwritten letters