Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Programme 2020-2021

 The Heraldry Society of Scotland

Programme for the 2020/2021 Session

All lectures will be given by ZOOM for the foreseeable future and you will need to sign up to them via Eventbrite. Please check the Eventbrite website [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/d/online/events/] for details of how to sign up. All lectures will be at 2p.m. GMT

Saturday, 31st October 2020 

“Arms and the woman: The Heraldry of Women Parliamentarians since 1958”

Duncan Sutherland, Esq.


Saturday, 5th December 2020 2p.m.

St Andrew Lecture 

"The Voice of the Sovereign"

Elizabeth Roads, LVO

St. Andrew Dinner

7.00pm for 7.45pm

Guest Speaker: Major General Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, KStJ, OBE, VR Governor of Edinburgh Castle


Saturday, 30th January, 2021

‘Three Hundred years of Scottish Heraldic Bookplates’

Richard Torrance, Esq.


Saturday, 27th February, 2021

“21st Century Scots Heraldry - How and why the flowering?”

Gordon Casely, Esq.


Saturday, 27th March, 2021

“Tipu’s Tiger and its place in British Heraldry”

David V. White, Somerset Herald


Saturday, 24th April 2021

Excursion to Glasgow Cathedral and Necropolis


Saturday, 29th May 2021

“The Heraldry of the Ecclesiastical Deans of Scotland”

Dr. David Bertie


Saturday, 25th September 2021

The Soutar Theatre, AK Bell Library, PERTH

11.00am Annual General Meeting

1.30pm Talks on member’s Arms


Saturday, 30th October 2021

The Alan Watson Memorial Lecture

“Railway Heraldry ”

Gordon Casely, Esq.