Events
UK auctions calendar for December 2024, January and February 2025
Key antiques and interiors auctions around the UK in December 2024, January and February 2025
Antiques fairs around the UK in December 2024, January and February 2025
The best antiques fairs and vintage markets around the UK in December 2024, January and February 2025
It's cocktail o'clock! Find refreshment during your next shopping spree at these classic London cocktail bars
Best range cookers for 2024
Cook up a storm this year with one of these beautiful range cookers
More amazing than Amsterdam: this under-the-radar Dutch city is cheaper, quieter and every bit as photogenic
Avoid the crowds this autumn and head to this lesser-known city, says Karen Harvey. It’s filled with forward-thinking, eco-friendly businesses, green spaces and brilliant museums.
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6 hauntingly beautiful Gothic locations: explore the real-life inspirations behind classic gothic fiction
From ghostly castles to wind-whipped moors, we take a candlelit tour of the real-life settings behind some of literature’s most celebrated works of gothic fiction
Grand Tour: be inspired by the travels of 17th-century gentlemen
We explore some of Italy’s lesser-visited destinations, teeming with historic and cultural attractions, but without the crowds…
Review: The Crow’s Nest, Rye
This bijou apartment makes a cosy base from which to explore this popular East Sussex antiques town…
48 hours in Narberth: where to go and what to see
Much feted for its food scene, the small Welsh town of Narberth can also be applauded for its vintage and antiques offering, which has blossomed in recent years
All aboard! Six of the best heritage railways to visit this summer
Whether stationary or moving at a gentle rumble, vintage trains and trams are a wonderful way to step back in time and embrace your spirit of adventure
Auctions
Collecting Martinware: a potted history plus how much it's worth
Martin Millard, director of Cheffins auction house, shares his expertise on collecting Martinware grotesques, from their beginnings to current auction value
A guide to buying vintage handbags at auction
If you're thinking of buying a vintage handbag at auction, read our expert auctioneers' advice to make sure you bag a high-quality bargain
Collecting Fairground Memorabilia
Jeremy Curzon, Consultant at Cheffins, talks to H&A all about collecting fairground memorabilia and their upcoming sale on the 23rd July
Fairs
UK Fairs Special 2024
Whether you’re searching for a key piece to complete your collection, or hoping to find interiors inspiration and a few decorative items to update your home, a fair is the place to start, says Charlotte Packer
LAPADA Berkeley Square fair returns to splendour
Following a three-year hiatus, LAPADA’s London fair returns to Berkeley Square where, for the first time, non-member dealers will take stands in the familiar pavilion. Emma Longstaff goes behind the scenes and meets members of the selection committee
The biggest European art fairs happening in 2023
Huon Mallalieu rounds up the key European art fairs to have on your radar for 2023
Travel
Banging bonfire nights! Where to find the UK's most dazzling firework displays
Fizzing fireworks, flaming bonfires or illuminated trails? Rhiannon Batten picks six historic venues commemorating the foiling of Guy Fawkes’ gunpowder plot this autumn
As Glyndebourne Festival kicks off, don't miss these 14 great ways to spend a weekend in nearby Lewes
Champagne picnics, alliums in bloom and stiletto heels sinking into the lawn can only mean one thing: Glyndebourne’s opera season has begun. Established in 1934, Glyndebourne Festival turns 90 this year, with five operas performed from May to August, and an autumn season in October. Just six kilometres away lies the historic market town of Lewes, on the edge of the South Downs National Park
48 hours in Brno
Once you’ve ambled around Brno’s cobbled squares and admired its castle, cathedral and terracotta-tiled homes, you may be left wondering why so many tourists overlook the Czech Republic’s second-largest city