British awards and decorations have many fascinating stories. There are two major categories: campaign medals and gallantry medals. Campaign medals are awarded to members of the British Armed Forces, ...

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 ...

A group of bronze statues have been stolen from a manor house in Wiltshire during a jazz festival. Unknown suspects broke into the grounds and property of Iford Manor, near Bradford on Avon and stole… ...

A scarce copy of a pioneering photograph book showing views of the Norfolk Broads has been consigned to south London saleroom Roseberys. Discovered in Maryland in the US, the rare surviving copy of ...

A new one-day multi-dealer venture opens in central London this week.

Bonhams is offering a rare portrait of former US President Abraham Lincoln seated with his young son Tad. The 5.25 x 3.75in (13 x 10cm) albumen print represents the only time Lincoln was photographed ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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