Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

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 ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

When the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, a party of British Red Cross nurses and doctors stayed and tended those they could help back to health.

Provocative ‘Merveilleuse’ gown from the 1790s flies to 20 times estimate at Kerry Taylor auction. Vintage costume specialist Kerry Taylor has sold a private collection of Nap ...

A complete set of 'Careless Talk Saves Lives' posters by Punch cartoonist Fougasse (1887-1965) appeared at Jones & Jacob in Oxfordshire From January 23 your current password will no longer be valid.

Panter and Hall are hosting an exhibition of Swedish painters in its Pall Mall gallery, the first of its kind in a London ...

There was high demand for a collection of what appeared to be Roman dental instruments at a recent Apollo Art Auctions sale.

If you are new to the art market you may find this list of terms frequently used by Antiques Trade Gazette helpful. Living artists and the descendants of artists deceased within the last 70 years are ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

It was very much a local concern and local is the best word to describe the scope of factory and its wares, the geographical spread of its original clientele and, by and large, the nature of its ...

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...