A professor in the United Kingdom has used a creative way to measure the dramatic, dark legacy of the Black Death in England: analyzing old pottery shards. The plague claimed millions of lives in the ...

A pottery firm boss has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to give the ceramic industry a "level playing field" on energy ...

Collectors find jokes and riddles in collectibles of all ages. There are puzzle mugs made with holes in the sides so if you try to drink, the ale inside will dribble down the front of your shirt.

Would you believe that one of the most prominent figures in American art pottery came from England? Frederick Hurten Rhead was born in England in 1880 and started his ceramics career by working with ...

A rare Roman-era settlement, composed of several buildings, was discovered in Cornwall, England. Photo from the Cornwall Council Multiple ancient structures from different time periods were recently ...

When Maggie Robertson, of Magpie Design Studio, traveled to England in 2007 she felt an unspoken sense of belonging. “I think it’s the people and the aesthetic of the country,” she says. “It just felt ...

NEWBOROUGH, ENGLAND—Archaeologists have uncovered a small farmstead made up of roundhouses and Roman pottery dating between the first and third centuries A.D. at the site of a solar energy farm in ...

YORK, ENGLAND—Pottery is thought to have originated with hunter-gatherers in Japan some 16,000 years ago. It was also thought that as the climate warmed at the end of the last Ice Age some 11,500 ...

Archaeologists discovered rare Roman relics at Bremenium Fort in northern England, including 2,000-year-old preserved fruit, ...