What’s heraldry ever done for us?

Wherever you look – from our national flags to carvings on ancient buildings – you can see heraldic designs. They owe their appearance to a formalised system that’s a lot more complex than you might at first appreciate, explains Clare Hunt

Ironmongers’ Hall, London EC2 The home of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers

Horses were involved in King Harold’s defeat at Hastings – but also in the demise of his Norman conqueror It’s one of the most famous of all medieval images. Harold II stands upon the battlefield at H

Everyone from royalty to rappers seems to have one in their wardrobe. Is this the world’s most versatile jacket? Harry Pearson praises the blazer, a true sartorial team player

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...