It is said to be one of the largest and most significant private collections of 19th Century Staffordshire pottery to come to market in Scotland. It will be sold in about 400 lots, each expected ...

In 2024, the door was propped open a little wider for the English 17th-century professional portraitist ... West Suffolk), which was made to accompany her own self-portrait, features frothy ...

Love them or hate them, the chocolate candies have their place in the city’s history — a history coming to an end with Hershey’s Canada ceasing production. Opening statements begin in Los ...

The Great Pottery Throwdown judge and ceramics designer, Keith Brymer Jones, has said the ceramics industry needs to adapt, ...

Wuxia films ruled Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s, and saw another burst of success during the 1990s. The 21st century has seen its fair share of effects-laden wuxia films, especially in mainland ...

Council leader Doug Pullen said the house was "a very special building with a rich history" A 17th Century building in Lichfield that has links to writer Samuel Johnson and actor David Garrick is ...

Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry has been "squeezed and squeezed", with businesses and experts questioning how many blows ...

Housebuilder Allison Homes' newly established East Midlands region has secured its first site in Nottinghamshire. The 3.8-acre development is located off Hollygate Lane in Cotgrave and will provide a ...

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been ... a stark discovery was made - the remains of two Pompeiians who failed to escape ...

But it was his schoolteachers’ real-life stories about 17th-century pioneers trading in mammoth tusks that captivated Gorokhov. Years later he would find library books with photographs of early ...

Arthur Penn’s game-changing heist movie was made in the same spirit of the revisionist ... Playing out in the corner booths and smoky back rooms of mid-century Times Square, it depicts showbiz ...