On 13th May 1787 the first ship of convicts sailed from Portsmouth, arriving in Botany Bay, Australia the following January. Over the next eighty years, Britain and Ireland transported around […]

You'll find our latest issue at dozens of antiques & collectables shops, fairs and auctions. But you can also view it online, or request a printed copy be sent to you.

If it doesn’t look nice, cover it up. It’s a philosophy that could happily sit alongside those of great interiors thinkers William Morris (have nothing in your house you do […]

Exciting new discoveries have recently emerged which provide tangible evidence that skateboarding was indeed introduced to Europe by American soldiers during World War II. A collection of old photographs and […]

Wear your heart on your sleeve and your outrage on your lapel. Protest badges are a symbol of allegiance and an act of defiance against the status quo. These small […]

Google the name “Hermoine Burton” and there’s nothing. Or there wasn’t until her paintings were found, some ten years after her death, scattered across Bedford charity shops. Fortuitously, they were […]

The Collector’s Companion was launched by Terry Smith in summer 1995 with 12 pages of adverts and articles. How we’ve grown! Impressively, a quarter of the advertisers in this issue […]

The younger sibling of the army and navy, the air force was still in its infancy when World War II began. Britain was the first country in the world to […]

WW2 saw the creation of a number of clubs that no airman would have chosen to join, but given a certain set of circumstances they’d be glad they did gain […]

These ornate little trumpets are bouquetiers, also known as tussie-mussies or quite simply, posy holders. In the 1800s flowers were a popular gift and fashion accessory among the upper classes […]