Sample articles from Antiquarian Horology
From Volume 44 Issue 4, December 2023
Unfreezing Time #16’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 44 Issue 4, December 2023
‘John Donegan’s watch factory in Ireland’ by David Boles
From Volume 44 Issue 3, September 2023
Unfreezing Time #15’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 44 Issue 3, September 2023
‘The conservation treatment of a refracting telescope on a universal equatorial mount c. 1741, signed Hindley, YORK’ by Timothy M. Hughes and Matthew Read
From Volume 44 Issue 2, June 2023
‘Unfreezing Time #14’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 44 Issue 2, June 2023
‘Peter Litherland’s patent watches and their successors. A fine-grained history of rack lever watch production’, by Michael Edidin
From Volume 44 Issue 1, March 2023
‘Unfreezing Time #13’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 44 Issue 1, March 2023
‘Two precision clocks by William Nicholson’ by Jonathan Betts
From Volume 43 Issue 4, December 2022
‘Unfreezing Time #12’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 43 Issue 4, December 2022
‘Making a luxury clock in late eighteenth-century Paris’ by Anthony Turner
From Volume 43 Issue 3, September 2022
‘Unfreezing Time #11’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 43 Issue 3, September 2022
‘Benjamin Martin’s ‘Table clock upon a new construction’ ’, by Guy Boney Q.C.
From Volume 43 Issue 2, June 2022
‘Unfreezing Time #10’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 43 Issue 2, June 2022
‘The Priors: a successful British watch brand for the Ottoman market’ by Luigi Petrucci
From Volume 43 Issue 1, March 2022
‘Unfreezing Time #9’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 43 Issue 1, March 2022
‘Four watchpapers, excavating layers of history’ by Su Fullwood
From Volume 42 Issue 4, December 2021
‘Unfreezing Time #8’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 42 Issue 4, December 2021
‘Clocks at Ardingly College’ by James Nye
From Volume 42 Issue 3, September 2021
‘Unfreezing Time #7’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 42 Issue 3, September 2021
‘Joseph Dodds and Robert Leslie – a mystery solved and an interesting discovery made’ by Jonathan Betts and Dale Sardeson
From Volume 42 Issue 2, June 2021
‘Unfreezing Time #6’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 42 Issue 2, June 2021
‘Helping to save the works of our old masters from oblivion’. The master clockmaker Alexander Grosz' by Gerhard Milchram and Tabea Rude
From Volume 42 Issue 1, March 2021
‘Unfreezing Time #5’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 42 Issue 1, March 2021
'John Kaye of Liverpool – Can his clock predict the time and height of high water at Liverpool?' by Steve and Darlah Thomas
From Volume 41 Issue 4, December 2020
‘Unfreezing Time #4’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 41 Issue 4, December 2020
'The Chandos Delander' by Jeremy Evans and Ann McBroom, with appendices by Richard Garnier and Guy Boney
From Volume 41 Issue 3, September 2020
‘Unfreezing Time #3’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 41 Issue 3, September 2020
'A miniature time ball from Synchronome' by Norman Heckenberg and Anthony Roberts
From Volume 41 Issue 2, June 2020
‘Unfreezing Time #2’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 41 Issue 2, June 2020
‘Picture Gallery: Time locks’ by Mark Frank
From Volume 41 Issue 1, March 2020
‘Unfreezing Time #1’ - Read the whole series of articles here by Patricia Fara
From Volume 41 Issue 1, March 2020
‘Women and Horology. Report on work in progress’ by Su Fullwood and Geoff Allnutt
From Volume 40 Issue 4, December 2019
‘Was there high-quality, wholesale movement manufacture in seventeenth-century London?’ by Jon Parker
From Volume 40 Issue 3, September 2019
‘Museum profile: The horological collection of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan’
From Volume 40 Issue 2, June 2019
‘Some further early clocks from Nuremberg’ by Dietrich Matthes and Rocío Sánchez-Barrios
From Volume 40 Issue 1, March 2019
‘The clockmaker’s art in the service of crime: the so-called ‘Thomas disaster’ on 11 December 1875 in Bremerhaven’ by Günther Oestmann
From Volume 39 Issue 4, December 2018
‘Drocourt’s porcelain tributes to Romantic Love and Royal Victory. Art-historical appreciation of rare carriage clocks’ by Larry L. Fabian
From Volume 39 Issue 3, September 2018
Salisbury, Wells and Rye – the great clocks revisited by Keith Scobie-Youngs
From Volume 39 Issue 2, June 2018
Showtime at Oxnead: The timekeepers depicted in The Paston Treasure by Jonathan Betts
From Volume 39 Issue 1, March 2018
The first transparent watch by Juan F. Déniz
From Volume 38 Issue 4, December 2017
Edmund Howard (1710–1798): A Quaker clockmaker in Chelsea by James Nye
From Volume 38 Issue 4, December 2017
Adam, the Devil and the Supernatural: An unusual English lantern clock revisited by John A. Robey
From Volume 38 Issue 3, September 2017
The horological legacy of Stanley John Wise by Geoffrey A. Horner
From Volume 38 Issue 2, June 2017
The story behind PATENT SURETY ROLLER stamped on carriage clocks by Thomas R. Wotruba
From Volume 38 Issue 1, March 2017
The National 15. The decline of British watchmaking and the role of Smiths in a hoped for recovery by David Read
From Volume 38 Issue 1, March 2017
The Crystal Palace Clock by James Nye
From Volume 37 Issue 4, December 2016
A Time to Remember by Rory McEvoy
From Volume 37 Issue 3, September 2016
W. E. Frodsham No.1. Another chronometer identified from HMS Beagle’s second voyage by Simon C. Davidson and Peter Linstead-Smith
From Volume 37 Issue 2, June 2016
A fourteenth-century Italian turret clock by Marisa Addomine
From Volume 37 Issue 1, March 2016
Picture Gallery - Turret clock by James Harrison of Hull, 1845
A wrist chronograph, a radio amateur and a handful of wichety grubs by David Read
From Volume 36 Issue 4, December 2015
Short-time measurement – the contribution of German electrical horology by Thomas Schraven
From Volume 36 Issue 3, September 2015
Watchmaking in Saxony – a review by Sibylle Gluch
From Volume 36 Issue 2, June 2015
Remembering the first battery-operated clock by Beverley F. Ronalds
From Volume 36 Issue 1, March 2015
Moncas of Liverpool. A short history of a nineteenth-century watch-making family by Michael W. Paice
From Volume 35 Issue 4, December 2014
Antoine Redier’s ingenious Comparateur Chronométrique for precise time comparisons by Phillip Arnott
From Volume 35 Issue 3, September 2014
Time balls at Greenwich and Adelaide – a direct personal connection by Douglas Bateman, Lesley Abell and Roger Kinns
From Volume 35 Issue 2, June 2014
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871). From mechanical to electrical horology by Françoise Collanges
From Volume 35 Issue 1, March 2014
Barwise & Sons: watchmakers to the King. A brief history of family and firm by A.D. Stewart
From Volume 34 Issue 4, December 2013
Ole Rømer’s temperature correction of pendulum clock rates, by Poul Darnel
From Volume 34 Issue 3, September 2013
An Unusual Movement, by Peter Gosnell
From Volume 34 Issue 2, June 2013
30-hour iron wall clock dated 1748, pictures and text by John A. Robey
From Volume 34 Issue 1, March 2013
Jan van Call and the age of the pendulum clock in the Netherlands, by Pier van Leeuwen
From Volume 33 Issue 6, December 2012
Extract from 'Horological News'
From Volume 33 Issue 5, September 2012
God Save the King. The Automaton Ship and Silver Shagreen Case, by Brittany Cox
From Volume 33 Issue 4, June 2012
Big Ben - New discoveries, Part 1, by Chris McKay
From Volume 33 Issue 3, March 2012
A Time-Telling Telescope, by Richard Dunn and Lavinia Maddaluno
From Volume 33 Issue 2, December 2011
The Electric Remontoire, by David Read
From Volume 33 Issue 1, September 2011
Thomas Hampson ‘of Wrexham’ - his Chester phase, by Steve and Darlah Thomas
From Volume 32 Issue 6, June 2011
A Family of Longcase Movements with an Early Anchor Escapement circa 1670, by Alan Fersht
From Volume 32 Issue 5, March 2011
Sidney Better - Watch Springer and Timer, by Paul Myatt
From Volume 32 Issue 4, December 2010
Minute Repeating in Tompion’s Lifetime, by Sebastian Whitestone
From Volume 32 Issue 3, September 2010
An Unusual English Lantern Clock, by John Robey
From Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2010
Pocket Chronometer 912 by John Adam Mangaar, by Tony Proctor
From Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2010
Twelve 10 x 8 inch Glass Plate Clock Negatives, by Peter Gosnell
From Volume 31, Issue 6, December 2009
The Secret Of Ploërmel. Brother Bernardin’s Astronomical Clock, by Bernard North
From Volume 31, Issue 5, September 2009
Wiiliam Caslon's Foundry Clock, by Clive Ponsford.
From Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2006
Occasion's Bald Behind - A neoclassical dial by John Owen of Llanrwst by William Linnard