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This week includes a couple of British favourites – ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the Battle of Waterloo. Both are celebrated in our quotes of the week today. Also find comments on Blockchain and art collecting on a budget.

It’s déjà vu all over again… yes, we bring you another excellent and evocative Suffragette item of memorabilia up at auction in this, the centenary year of the signing of the Qualification of Women Act. In other words, votes for women in the UK – aged over 30, that is.

A book by the 19th century computer pioneer Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) – known as ‘the Countess of Computing’ – has sold for £95,000 at Moore Allen & Innocent in Cirencester.

Our latest look at new roles in the art and antiques trade.

This rare adjustable Piano lamp designed by Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen is one of the highlights on the stand of Modernity in Stockholm at the upcoming edition of PAD London.

Whether your budget runs to four figures or a hefty six figures, two lots sold recently show how various price options can be available in a certain collecting market – in this case, Nelson memorabilia.

A watch, writing set and magnifying glass belonging to the controversial couple the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the former King Edward VIII and wife Wallis Simpson - will be offered at auction this weekend.

“Great art collecting need not be based on a great fortune. Education, experience and eye are more important.” So said the late American art dealer and collector Eugene V Thaw who died aged 90 earlier this year.

A new art and luxury insurance division has been formed as a result of AXA’s acquisition of XL Group.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get one of the objects from a former home of Charlie Watts, the legendary Rolling Stones drummer.

A gold medal awarded to the bursar on board the RMS Carpathia, the ship that famously rescued survivors from the Titanic in 1912, will be offered at Bourne End Auction Rooms this summer.

Members of the House of Lords have called for amendments to the bill to ban the trade in objects made of or containing ivory.

The 1977 California Resale Royalties Act has effectively been shelved after panel of judges struck down the law – the US’s only ‘droit de suite’ law for visual artists.

Blockchain for the art world is a big opportunity but caution is needed. That was the verdict from Christie’s Art + Tech Summit.

Staffordshire’s Potteries Auctions is expanding with a second saleroom to increase its auction frequency to two a month.