York

The membership figures for the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) are looking robust with 25 new members in the past 12 months, bringing the total to around 400.

I have been shown an article in ATG (No 2586) regarding Richard Cawood, the former organiser of the Antique Home & Vintage Fair that ran at York Racecourse for several years.

People watching as well as stall perusing is one of the big attractions of the Festival of Vintage held biannually at York Racecourse.

Dealers who had planned to stand at the Antique Home & Vintage Fair in York have been attempting to receive a refund for deposits paid to organiser Richard Cawood after the event was cancelled.

Not only does Paula Duggan run Little English House, a business selling antiques and items created from antique fabrics, she organises an interiors fair in Howden, near York. And she is also opening a shop in the market town.

Dr Richard Piran McClary is a senior lecturer in Islamic art and architecture in the history of art department at The University of York.

Racecourse event launched by a veteran fair organiser after demise of one of the fairs at the same venue

The triannual Antique Home & Vintage Fair organised by Richard Cawood of Antique Fair York was cancelled on January 1 due to “unforeseen circumstances”.

News of historic premises being revived, a closure – plus a new outlet starting in Skipton

Visitor numbers are likely to be swelled above the usual 1000 a day at the annual 'York National Book Fair' held at the city’s racecourse on Friday and Saturday, September 9-10.

York vintage event returns as first to be staged for three years

One of York’s oldest bookshops is closing next year.

This poster was used in the promotion of the first-ever stage production of Peter Pan.

According to the Booksellers Association, more than 60 bookshops opened in the UK and Ireland over the past 18 months, reflecting the rediscovery by many people of the pleasure of books during the pandemic despite the increase in online shopping.

The annual York River Art Market is running every Saturday from June 26 to the end of August with 30-plus artists and designers selling their work.

This George III silver table snuff box by Phipps and Robinson, London 1814, is engraved to the cover with a plan of the battle of Talavera in the Peninsular War.

James Waggott of The Antiques Centre York is a happy chap.

Born and raised in York, Richard Cawood is the organiser of the city’s triannual 'Antique Home & Vintage Fair' and has now launched a second, smaller event in the nearby East Yorkshire market town of Pocklington.