Speakers List

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David Broomfield
db01@btinternet.com
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The Battle of Waterloo in Heraldry
Heraldry at Clare College, Cambridge
The Heraldry of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Heraldry of Queens’ College, Cambridge
The Heraldry of Eton College, Windsor
The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels – a Tale of Heralds, Diamonds and Unnatural Vice
From Wurttemberg to Cambridge: a tale of titles, love and emeralds
Bath time with Sir John Griffin-Griffin, a discourse on an 18th century Knight of the Order of the Bath
The Robes of the Peerage and British Orders of Chivalry
The Scandals of the British Peerage
The Heraldry of Audley End in Essex
History and Heraldry of the Robinson Family, the Marquesses of Ripon
History and Heraldry of the Herberts of Highclere Castle
The Cavendish family (part two)
The Cavendish family (part one)

David Appleton
davidbappleton@att.net
+1(972) 572 2792 +1(214) 354 7555
Travel
Willing to travel in USA, Europe and Canada.
Expenses
variable
Speaker Fee
Speaker fee: $50 locally within 50 miles of Duncanville, Texas, otherwise negotiable
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History, Heraldry, and [American] Colonial Connections
History, Heraldry, and Mayflower Connections
An Introduction to Genealogical Research in New England
One Approach to Publishing Your Family History
The United States of America: the search for a National Coat of Arms
The Boke of St Albans, an introduction (discussing the heraldic portions of the Boke)
Coats of Arms: Meanings and Myths
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in American Heraldry
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in Canadian Heraldry
The Gore Roll: A Colonial American Roll of Arms
The Heralds Visitations, an Often Overlooked Genealogical Resource
Interpreting Blazon, the Language of Heraldry
An introduction to Heraldry for Genealogists
The Westford Knight: Heraldic Evidence for Pre-Columbian Scots in America?

Tony Bostock
tony@tonybostock.com
+44(0)1606 624 175; +44(0)7392 519 644
Travel
Willing to travel up to 100 miles from Cheshire, or into London.
Expenses
Outside Cheshire - car mileage at 30p/mile, or 2nd class train fare depending on distance
Speaker Fee
£60
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Cheshire’s Seventeenth-Century Wooden, Heraldic Memorial Boards: a feature of many Cheshire churches.
The Colour of Heraldry: an introduction to science and art of heraldry.
European and Cheshire Heraldry at Brereton Hall.
The Heraldic Canopy at Adlington Hall: a remarkable 16th-century display.
Heraldry and Detecting Local History.
An Interpretation of the Heraldry at Bramhall Hall: including a 15th-century pew and 16th-century tapestry.
An Interpretation of the Heraldry at Lyme Hall.
The Middlewich Heraldic Screens: a unique display of the Venables family’s history.

Pauline Chakmakjian
spyglass8@aol.com
+44(0)20 7495 4759
Travel
Willing to travel anywhere.
Expenses
Travel and photocopying.
Speaker Fee
Yes but flexible.
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Around the Masonic World in 40 minutes (Non-UK FM/their Grand Lodges)
The Christian Chivalric Orders of Freemasonry
Freemasonry and Egyptian / Middle Eastern Symbolism
Freemasonry, Knights Templar and Rosslyn Chapel
Japanese Castles and Mon (includes a mini history of feudal Japan)
Masonic Ranks and Associated Symbols
Masonic Symbolism II (1st, 2nd, 3rd and Royal Arch Rituals w/Tracing Boards)
Royal and Famous Freemasons (includes masonic coats of arms)
Freemasonry and 18th century British Sociability
Masonic Symbolism I (25 most common symbols in Freemasonry)

Andrew Gray
andrew@gray-haines.uk
+44(0)20 7247 2258
Travel
Willing to travel anywhere in UK. Can lecture via Zoom or Teams
Expenses
Travel, overnight accommodation and meals if required.
Speaker Fee
Donation to Heraldry Society
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Barnet 1471 – the Battle lost through Heraldry
Politics of the Garter – how the history of the Order illustrates the politics of the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict
What Wars? What Roses? – the Cousins’ War: its real length, the right to the crown, the myth of the Roses
No King of England if not King of France – a history of the English claim to the French crown Edward III to George III and its contradictions
All the World on a Shield – the encylopaedic vision of Randle Holme III
Arms for Arthur’s Round Table (the history of the Round Table of Winchester and a possible armorial for it)
East Indiamen and Other Pirates (on traceable heraldry of those who built our mercantile empire)
Foundation of St Katherine by the Tower – its history, its wanderings, its heraldry
Garters at War (the parallel careers of Edward Bysshe and Edward Walker during the Civil War, Commonwealth and Restoration)
How not to design Civic Heraldry (my ideas on good and bad heraldic design)
Ladies of the Garter – the identity and heraldry of the ladies enrobed in the Most Noble Order in the Middle Ages
You can’t argue with the dead (funeral heraldry and family legend)
Arms of the Law (heraldry of legal London)
The English Hatchment
The Forgotten Dead (further memoirs of a hatchment hunter)
The Genealogists’ Picture Book (a heraldry primer for family historians, showing how heraldry can reveal unsuspected genealogy)
The Heraldry of the Dead (a general and wide-ranging talk on hatchments, drawing on our image library)
Monks at Arms – Puzzles of Monastic Heraldry (analysing the credibility and sources of the arms of abbeys and priories)
The Randle Holmes (on the Chester dynasty of deputy heralds and their work)