Vox populi, vox silentii
I didn’t receive much response to my last post, so I will now announce: I intend to have all the text entries for Pictorial Dictionary 3 entered by the Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium....
View ArticleTeaching at KWHSS
That’s Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium, for those of you who dislike acronyms. This year it’s in Toronto, last weekend in June, and I will be teaching classes. Two of them, in fact:...
View ArticleStill updating the PicDic
Not quite done with the online version of the Pictorial Dictionary, but the end is in sight. Part of the reason I’m taking so long is, of course, drawing images of all the new charges we’ve accepted...
View ArticleSometimes we update images
Occasionally, I update the images already posted in the Pictorial Dictionary. Sometimes, it’s because I just wasn’t happy with the older image, and I feel I can do better. Other times, it’s because...
View ArticleStatus report
(Yes, I know. I really need to post more often.) In terms of progress on the Online Pictorial Dictionary, I’m down to the last four letters of the alphabet. I have high hopes that all the images will...
View ArticleCollecting grants of arms
So among my other activities, I collect medieval and Renaissance grants of arms. These are almost entirely English — which is reasonable, since the English College of Arms is one of the few that were...
View ArticleI know how NPR feels
This is the time of year when I have to pay to have my web hosting and URL renewed. And so it’s the time of year when I come, hat in hand, to ask for donations. Many of you have donated in the past,...
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