Montacute House in Somerset has appeared in a number of period dramas including Sense and Sensibility and The Libertine and ...

Items, including a silver dining-room table centrepiece (an epergne), a pair of French Empire ormolu candelabra, a pewter mug and plate, plus several items of porcelain were stolen from Montacute ...

The centrepiece, also known as an epergne, was made by renowned London silversmith Thomas Pitts in the 18th century. Prices ...

The items stolen were a treasured part of the collection, in particular the epergne which was commissioned by Edward Phelips ...

The items taken from the Elizabethan house date back to the early 19th century, including a pewter tankard from 1850.

“Items, including a silver dining-room table centrepiece (an epergne), a pair of French Empire ormolu candelabra, a pewter mug and plate, plus several items of porcelain were stolen from Montacute ...

A 1797 “Wildman of Jesso” bronze half-penny-sized advertising token was the star attraction during Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s ...

In public domain, via Wikimedia Commons and Internet Archive. In a coffee-house in 18th-century Surat, a group of men from various faiths and ethnicities are arguing about God. Each claims the ...

In early modern Britons consulted diviners to find stolen goods, learn about the next harvest, or scrutinise their marriage ...

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And as late as the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that any man who was in love with his wife was probably too dull to be loved by another woman. When did romance enter the ...