A new exhibition of works from King Charles’ private collection allows a comparison of His Majesty's handiwork and a professional artist. More than 70 works of art from King Charles’ private ...

Leica prototype takes seven-figure sum. A Leica prototype camera took a hammer price of €6m (€7.2m including premium) against an estimate of €1.5m-2m at an auction in Austri ...

Photo London to be first artworld event held at newly refurbished Olympia. The newly redeveloped Olympia, set to be unveiled later this year after a £1.3bn makeover, will host 'P ...

Neil Lanham, now 87, has published his account of 70 years in the auction world, documenting his car… ...

Medals associated with the Indian Mutiny are among the most sought-after awards linked to the British occupation of the Subcontinent. Dreweatts/Bloomsbury offered this 1857-8 Indian Mutiny Medal, in ...

Burmantofts Pottery was born out of James Holroyd’s architectural brickworks, taking advantage of the rich local deposits of both coal and clay. However, today, the church built in Shakespeare Street ...

A group of seven first edition hardback copies of the Harry Potter books, all signed by author JK Rowling, are being offered by Heritage Auctions. The group already has pre-auction online bids ...

While the origins of the game date back over a millennium (early precursors have been traced to the 6th century AD), its popularity in Europe really started to grow in the Medieval period as the game ...

The third (and final) Downton Abbey film is set to be released in September and a goodbye auction of the hit TV series and film franchise’s props is being hosted by Bonhams. The Downton Abbey auction, ...

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When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...

By 1897, the antiquarian Albert Hartshorne had published Old English Glasses: An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century. This seminal work ...