Andrew Gray

andrew@gray-haines.uk
+44(0)20 7247 2258
Travel
Willing to travel anywhere in UK. Can lecture via Zoom or Teams
Expenses
Travel, overnight accommodation and meals if required.
Speaker Fee
Donation to Heraldry Society
Lectures
All the World on a Shield – the encylopaedic vision of Randle Holme III
Arms for Arthur’s Round Table (the history of the Round Table of Winchester and a possible armorial for it)
East Indiamen and Other Pirates (on traceable heraldry of those who built our mercantile empire)
Foundation of St Katherine by the Tower – its history, its wanderings, its heraldry
Garters at War (the parallel careers of Edward Bysshe and Edward Walker during the Civil War, Commonwealth and Restoration)
How not to design Civic Heraldry (my ideas on good and bad heraldic design)
Ladies of the Garter – the identity and heraldry of the ladies enrobed in the Most Noble Order in the Middle Ages
You can’t argue with the dead (funeral heraldry and family legend)
Arms of the Law (heraldry of legal London)
The English Hatchment
The Forgotten Dead (further memoirs of a hatchment hunter)
The Genealogists’ Picture Book (a heraldry primer for family historians, showing how heraldry can reveal unsuspected genealogy)
The Heraldry of the Dead (a general and wide-ranging talk on hatchments, drawing on our image library)
Monks at Arms – Puzzles of Monastic Heraldry (analysing the credibility and sources of the arms of abbeys and priories)
The Randle Holmes (on the Chester dynasty of deputy heralds and their work)