Mayfair antiquities dealer part of the team revealing a 154-million-year-old fossil. Natural history and antiquities gallery David Aaron is involved in the planned exhibition of a ...

Book fair returns to Harrogate hotel for spring event. The PBFA (Provincial Booksellers and Fairs Association) next event is in Harrogate where the fair returns to The Old Swan Ho ...

Kent County Council offloads further artworks at auction. Auction house Sworders is selling a second tranche of artworks consigned by Kent County Council.

Reynolds portrait of Princess Diana’s ancestor emerges at Monaco auction. A portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) of Lavinia Bingham (1762-1831), Countess Spencer, will be o ...

Antiques dealers speak out over Kensington council’s plans for Portobello Road improvements. Kensington and Chelsea council has announced a £4.4m plan for Portobello Road to im ...

Pictures emerge from attic to serve up a wartime treat. Two pictures by Elsie Gledstanes (1891-1982) that were found untouched in an attic after 40 years drew notable competition ...

White gloves for Oscar Wilde auction at Bonhams. All 156 lots of the Jeremy Mason collection are sold as bidders vie for choice items related to iconic figure.

Photo London unveils plans for its debut event at London’s Olympia in May. The newly redeveloped Olympia, set to be unveiled this spring after a £1.3bn makeover, will host Phot ...

With estimates from £100, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Walter Greaves portrait of his brother Henry turns heads at Dorset auction. Thanks to their artistic bent, the London-born brothers Walter Greaves (1846-1930) and Henry Greaves (1 ...

The Worcester factory was founded at Warmstry House in 1751 by a deed of partnership with 15 members. The period from foundation to 1783, when it was acquired by Thomas Flight, is known as the First ...

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 ...