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Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on a 15th century manuscript
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on Britten’s complete draft score of The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a newly discovered 16th Century manuscript, thought to be the earliest surviving English translation of any work by the great humanist scholar and reformer Desiderius Erasmus.
The finest surviving copy of the 15th century romance Gillion de Trazegnies, has had a temporary export bar placed on it to provide a last chance to raise the £3,849,250 needed to keep the manuscript in the UK.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the Book of Hours to keep it in the country
Sir Charles Lyell’s notebooks at risk of export unless a buyer can be found to match the £1.4 million asking price
The Government is today launching a consultation on proposed changes to the Public Lending Right Scheme to ensure authors are paid their fair share when their work is enjoyed by library users.
A manuscript thought to have been lost during the chaos that followed the allied bombing of southern Italy in 1943 will be returned.
Employment Tribunal decision
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Mr Justice Choudhury, Ms G Mills and Mrs G P Todd on 12 July 2022.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment of Lord Fairley on 23 September 2022.
Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery decision of Judge Sinfield, Member Farquharson and Member Woodman on 13 May 2019.
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