'Buccaneers of America' by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin offered a rare glimpse into the eye-opening exploits of pirates in the Caribbean ...

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The wider market is increasingly selective, but Qing mark and period porcelain continues to shine in the saleroom. The UK ...

A replica Cheltenham Gold Cup awarded to Frank Vickerman, the owner of 1948 winner Cottage Rake, fet… ...

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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 ...

Recently rediscovered in a German family collection where they have been for at least a century, a pair of Ming dynasty wucai ...

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 ...

The written note was from passenger Richard William Smith, who perished with 1500 others three days later ...

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 ...

More than £24,000 worth of items were stolen from National Trust property Montacute House in Somerset last month. A 1781 ...

Sotheby’s is planning its first auction in Saudi Arabia in what will be the first sale to be held by an international auction house in the kingdom. Set for February 8, the two-part evening sale titled ...