Fairs and Markets

After a year’s absence, Lady McAlpine’s four-day Thames Traditional Boat Festival is returning to Henley to run on Fawley Meadows from Friday to Monday, August 27-30.

Naomi Knight is back with her Sunday monthly and popular Bath Vintage & Antiques Markets with the next on August 29.

Keeley Rosendale of Discover Vintage is going all-out this autumn with her vintage home shows including the launch of one in London – her first in the south of England.

LAPADA tries partnership with a different kind of fair amid latest trade challenges

The organisers of the Bamberger Kunst-und Antiquitätenwochen (art and antiques weeks), which run until August 22, thought long and hard about whether to hold this year’s event in light of the pandemic.

An update from Jeremy Carson, organiser of PBFA’s Brighton Book Fair which will run at Brighton Racecourse (assuming it is not being used as a vaccination centre then…) on Saturday, October 30 – the first in Brighton for more than 20 years.

B2B Events has confirmed that its antiques, vintage and collectors’ fairs held in Edinburgh at the Royal Highland Centre will not be running this year.

The Beccles Antiques Market held at its new riverside quay location by the River Waveney in the Suffolk town is now fully booked, with 100-plus stallholders for its second market here on Sunday, August 22.

This 15th century copy of the Life of St Radegund is an illuminated biography of the canonised sixth-century Frankish queen Radegund.

This impressive Baroque chess set by the Danzig amber artist Michel Redlin has returned to the city of Gdansk in Poland where it was made over 300 years ago.

Acquired six months ago from Caroline Penman by the online selling platform 2Covet, the long-established and highly regarded 'Chelsea Antiques Fair' returns to its spiritual home of Chelsea Town Hall next month for its 70th edition.

As Brighton Racecourse is still being used as a vaccination centre, Love Fairs’ Donny Mann did a bit of lateral thinking about his antiques and vintage fair due to be held there on Sunday, August 29.

Among the sales at the latest edition of Masterpiece, which ran in a digital format for the second year running from June 24-27, was this Neoclassical portrait of the Emperor Napoleon in his coronation robe.

After more than 18 months, 'The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair' is ready to open its doors again.

Updates from two events taking place in the south of England.

After a succession of virtual fairs, the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) has announced the return of its first live event in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, on July 30-21.

Uncertainty still affects fairs but antiques centres are benefiting from extra visitors

Larger indoor fairs can go ahead in England now that coronavirus restrictions have been relaxed but many firms will retain coronavirus measures.