1940s

Here we present a selection of well-worn 1940s – 1950s British-made toy cars. Their individual patinas not only the result of many hours of exuberant play, but of the gradual […]

Women of Britain – Come into the factories. So declared the 1941 recruitment poster which would help to take hundreds of thousands of women into the workplace during Would War […]

In The Vanished Collection the struggle between heirs and museums to claim artwork looted by the Nazis was focused on. Here we look at the views for and against restitution.

Imagine standing in the grandeur of the National Gallery, looking at a multi-million-pound Monet on the wall that should be your inheritance. Having your bike nicked and spotting it a […]

In the last issue we looked at examples of when history is made less authentic to appear more realistic and how it can either distance us from or immerse us […]

The coconut effect There’s plenty of instances in life when a lie is more attractive than the truth, if not even more believable than the truth. You’ll impress nobody saying, […]

Dating vintage with care labels (see our feature on that here) only helps with garments that are 1960s onwards, but there’s a number of other labels you may come across […]

For those of us in the UK, vintage Marks and Spencer clothing, under the name St Michael, is available in abundance. St Michael was used as a brand name from […]

Pre-War Vienna to Post-War London. Post-WW2 textile and pattern design is defined by the work of a few woman designers, of which one is Jacqueline Groag.