Events Archive

City of Bath Heraldic Society lecture: Dr Lucy Bailey, “The ‘Backward Look’ at Farnley Hall”

Heraldic Displays in a Country Seat in the Early Nineteenth Century

Suffolk Heraldry Society lecture: Birds, Bats, Badgers, Beavors and Bunnies, the Heraldry of the Hedgerow, presented by David Phillips

Oxford University Heraldry Society lecture: Dr Beatrice Groves, “Azure-laced / With blue of heaven’s own tinct:”

Shakespeare's heraldic language

Suffolk Heraldry Society lecture: The Cavendish Family Part 2, presented by David Broomfield

Oxford University Heraldry Society lecture: Nicolas Vernot on “Heraldry and Magic”.

Examines the performance of heraldic images from the perspective of the invisible forces in which the armigers believed.

The Anniversary Lunch 2026

Join Members and their Guests for our popular Anniversary Lunch in the convivial surroundings of the RAF Club.

Thomas Tonge and his visitation of the northern counties, 1530

The life and career of Thomas Tonge (d. 1536), successively York Herald and Norroy and Clarenceux King of Arms.

Signs and Symbols: Heraldry and Radiology from Röntgen to the Present Day

Professor Stephen Keevil, MA MSc PhD AKC LTh FBIR FInstP FIPEM will examine the history of heraldry associated with Radiology.

Five Centuries in One Hour and Five Meters: The Pedigree Roll of the Darell Family of England as a Bank of Evidence (1637)

Coats of arms were intended, among other things, to showcase the status of a noble in a variety of ways: on buildings, on funeral monuments, on dishes, and even on gutters. The pinnacle of the show-off is an elaborate heraldic family tree: A nobleman who could afford it, would commission a heraldic artist to draw a fine genealogical tree for him on a parchment.
At first, in the fifteenth century, family trees were designed in basic drawing, sometimes without any arms. From the sixteenth century onwards, impressive family trees were produced – whether in the form of a roll or of a book. They included names, family connections, sometimes figures, and of course coats of arms.

Drayton’s Agincourt Banners

Drayton's Agincourt Banners
Dr. M.A.K. Duggan

The room will be open at 17.30
The lecture will commence at 18.00

The Constance Egan Lecture

The poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631) included in his versified account of the Battle of Agincourt a description of the banners supposedly carried by the contingents of men from each county of England and Wales who fought there independent of any feudal lord. Some of these banners have obvious associations with their appropriate (historic) counties, while others are unusual or even odd. They do not seem to have attracted much attention from armorists, surprisingly. This lecture is an introductory presentation of the subject, including the question of their authenticity; much of the further work of exploration would probably have to be undertaken locally, county by county, preferably by persons informed in both local history and heraldry.