Happy Burns Night, we think of the bard's heraldic ambitions as expressed in a letter of March 1794 to his friend, the Edinburgh lawyer Alexander Cunningham when he described himself as "a bit of a herald" and designed his own coat of arms.
Mark Dennis RIP
Tributes have been flowing in to our dear friend and former herald, Mark Dennis (1951-2025) who died suddenly on Friday and whose artistry ...
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The rare privilege of supporters, which hold up the shield, is granted a little more generously in Scotland than in England at the discre... -
The Lord Lyon has matriculated the arms of Chief of the Name and Arms of Irving of Bonshaw for Rupert Christopher Irving of Bonshaw. The art...