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Ten incredibly rare maps that plot the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a defining moment in England’s history, have been saved from export thanks to support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.  

NHMF has helped to save for the nation the sledge and sledging flag from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition.

NHMF team members take a look back at the hundreds of items they've seen added to the memorial collection over the past few decades.

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.

Recently discovered manuscript constitutes one of the largest and earliest surviving groups of Donne’s verse which has yet to be studied

The collection, acquired by Pembroke College Cambridge, is a treasure trove of previously unseen poems, personal letters, photographs and literary papers

The National Heritage Memorial Fund was founded in 1980 as a memorial to those who have given their lives for the UK

Legend of the British motorcar industry, the Triumph TR2 prototype, secured with £250,000 NHMF grant

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