This post is part of a series from Neon Antiques called A history of the world in 100 everyday antiques. My goal is to tell the stories of 100 “everyday antiques” that you could have in your home for under £100. …

This post is part of a series from Neon Antiques called A history of the world in 100 everyday antiques. My goal is to tell the stories of 100 “everyday antiques” that you could have in your home for under £100. …

Why get into old chairs? When I started trying to learn more about antiques I looked about for a good place to start. …

This post is part of a series from Neon Antiques called A history of the world in 100 everyday antiques. My goal is to tell the stories of 100 “everyday antiques” that you could have in your home for under £100. …

This post is part of a series from Neon Antiques called A history of the world in 100 everyday antiques. My goal is to tell the stories of 100 “everyday antiques” that you could have in your home for under £100. This story is about a chair in my kitchen. The problem with London fashion …

This post is part of a series from Neon Antiques called A history of the world in 100 everyday antiques. My goal is to tell the stories of 100 “everyday antiques” that you could have in your home for under £100. …

I’m currently eating my breakfast toast off a plate that was made more than 175 years ago. How decadent! Was it expensive? Are you sure you should be doing that? Isn’t it delicate and easily broken? Nope. I bought a set of 12 of these plates (with a few others…

Why I care Antiques are getting cheap. Crazy cheap. Dirt cheap. These are objects that were hand made from quality materials by highly skilled craft-people over a hundred years ago. In the 1980s they were worth thousands of pounds, and now they’re worth hundreds. Most of my friends don’t really get antiques. They…

An experiment to mobilise the 70% who would pay more tax to fund the NHS. This post follows: NHS tax hack — an idea and NHS tax hack — time for action (if you’ve not seen those yet, you might want to start there for a bit of context)and links…