This year, activists launched a campaign to get Hamilton City Council to rethink its coat of arms. The current design has two pūkeko besides a shield with oxen heads on it. It is topped off by a ...

Now ubiquitous in public life, heraldry was born out of necessity. Today, it is still everywhere, from the coats of arms of town councils to the shields on school blazers and even in private exchanges ...

Definition of "coat of arms": an arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions. In scarlet red and white, this coat of arms uses elements ...

A change to Denmark's royal coat of arms is attracting more attention than permutations in Scandinavian heraldry might ordinarily receive. In what appears to be a response to President-elect Trump ...

There are a couple of thousand different Polish coats of arms. You might expect that these would all include images of some lofty or knightly character but that isn’t always the case. Many are ...

After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ...

In late December, by "royal resolution," in an announcement that appears to have gone largely unnoticed until this week the king updated the Danish royal coat of arms. Why Trump wants Greenland ...

Coats of arms, hereditary graphic signs identifying families of nobility, first appeared in Poland in the 13th century. The Polish use of these signs differed in some aspects from what was typical in ...

The Danish king has changed the country’s royal coat of arms to display symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands more prominently – in an apparent rebuke to Donald Trump. King Frederik has ...

The issuance of a new coat of arms for the nation has become a total and utter fiasco. For this, blame must be laid squarely at the feet of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley. It was Dr Rowley who ...

Defeated at Blackheath, Flamank and an Gof suffered the death of traitors - hanged, drawn and quartered. A statue of them is at St Keverne. This plaster coat of arms came from the Flamank home at ...