Culture.pl takes a quick look at the basics of heraldry and its Polish specificity ... unlike in other countries, a given coat of arms wasn’t restricted to identifying just the one family. The various ...

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 ...

As a means of illustrating a knight’s achievements, the coat of arms quickly evolved into a status ... JD: Sometimes the contemporary heraldic designs still derive from the founder’s family crest. The ...

(14 min 15 sec) Genealogist and heraldry expert David Jack told ... organisations in his efforts to formalise a Jack family coat of arms. He planned to submit his family's design to an American ...