A London art dealer has been jailed for failing to report art sales to a sanctioned individual believed to be a terrorist financier. Oghenochuko Ojiri, founder of the Ojiri Gallery in east London, has ...

Apparently bought for £15 in a charity shop in Leicester, this gold and enam… ...

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 ...

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a portrait of the late John Prescott being offered at a Yorkshire auction.

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 ...

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Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

A work described ‘the masterpiece of Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1957)’ set a major record for the artist at Cheffins last month. Titled A Native of Sierra Leone, the striking half-length portrait was a ...

Yorkshire museum The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund have teamed up to launch a public appeal to sav… ...

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 ...

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 ...