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 ...

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The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction earlier this year. It is the first royal portrait in oil to enter the museum’s ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an Irish antiques sleuth making a major profit on a £200 eBay purchase. When an Irish antiques sleuth paid under £20… ...

Making its first appearance in 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', the map was used to track the whereabouts of teachers and students in Hogwarts ...

The manuscript of Franz Kafka’s short story 'Erstes Leid', or First Sorrow, accompanied by a three-page letter to his publisher will appear at auction in Hamburg on November 23. Kafka was a complex ...

London Art Week (December 2-6) is one of the UK's most prestigious fine arts selling events. The hig… ...

You might think that when a picture is covered in dirt, suffers from a puncture and paint losses, and also has a tear so large you could put your hand through it, then that would ‘kill’ its prospects ...

Darnley Fine Art is currently hosting an exhibition (December 2-14) showcasing the works of several … ...

The UK government has placed a temporary export bar on two Roman mosaics dating from the fourth century AD. Together they are valued at £560,000. The two geometric and patterned sections of Roman ...

Titanic memorabilia record set as pocket watch fetches £1.31m The pocket watch was awarded to the captain of RMS Carpathia, whose captain and crew saved more than 700 people A pocket watch presented ...

ForgeLynch is getting into the Christmas spirit with an exhibition called 'Gifts from the Ancient World'. It will be held at its Pall Mall premises from December 2-6, from 10am-6pm.