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With Christmas entering our shopping radar it is time to start thinking about present buying. A debate that rises to the surface is where our allegiance should lie – with online shops or with the local high street. In many ways the decision was made several years ago and a happy balance of online and offline shopping has been struck. Savvy companies have combined an offline and online presence to capitalise from both audiences. The future is certainly favouring an...

The origins of Halloween have their roots in a Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sah-win). This is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. It was a time used by ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and make their preparations for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on the 31st October the boundaries that separated the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped causing the deceased to come back to life and...

One of the questions that we often get asked in all of the gift shops at Who’s it For is what are the differences between the different types of pottery that we sell. It is a difficult subject to broach as there are so many different types and there is a lot of history with all of them. With this in mind we have created our Pottery Shelf infographic to explain more clearly…