The grand new exhibition on the American Presidency in our National Museum of American History displays hundreds of objects—General Washington's uniform and sword, the hat Lincoln wore the night he ...

Our antiques expert Allan Blackburn looks at an item that is practical and valuable... Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene When the writing box is unfolded, it offers a slanted writing surface, a drawer to hold inkwells and quills, ...

This week a regular customer to the antiques centre came in asking me to value a beautiful writing box that had once been his father's. It is worth a mention as it is very unusual. Portable boxes for ...

WE don't write letters anymore which is a shame. Now it’s text, email etc, but in times gone by this was not the case. In the 19th century the master of the household would have a desk, or writing ...