THE Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has spent £37,000 of your money and mine having his portrait done and getting himself a coat of arms. This will bring great joy to the workers who ...

The shields, made for the 1839 Eglinton Tournament in Ayrshire, went under the hammer for £8,000 in Edinburgh. Art expert James Knox, who bought the pieces, said he hoped to make them the centrepiece ...

A LOCAL historian is shining a light on a series of decorative stained glass windows found within Bradford’s City Hall. Janet Senior has turned detective to uncover the stories behind nearly 100 ...

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 ...