Knit your own Union Jack? Why not? Buckinghamshire-based Katie Ayers set herself this challenge and turned to us for vital information. Our Union Flag Specification gave her the correct proportions to plot the number of stitches. Then she started with a number of smaller examples… and just kept going. Here a proud Katie displays the […]
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Flags for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
HM Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, having reigned for longer than any other British monarch. Flags, of course, will play a big part in the festivities. As there is no official Platinum Jubilee flag, various styles are available – including many that display the official Platinum Jubilee Emblem (left). If you […]
Flag of Wales: a blood-red dragon on a field of green
Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon) became the official flag of Wales in 1959, although a dragon has represented the Principality since 830. We can date the symbol of the Red Dragon to the Roman occupation of Britain, or to Arthurian Legend. Merlin prophesied a battle between a red dragon (the Britons) and a white […]
Wales: no change to Union Flag
Interviewed this morning by BBC Wales, Welshman and Flag Institute Chief Executive Charles Ashburner suggested that moves to change the flag of the United Kingdom to include Wales are ‘unlikely to be successful for the foreseeable future’. Such a change might have been hard to resist had Scotland voted for independence. However, the national mood […]
Statement: Flag Institute President
Statement by the Malcolm Farrow, President of the Flag Institute “I would like to endorse most strongly the words of Andrew Rosindell MP – Chairman of the all party Flags and Heraldry Committee. It has been a privilege to work with the Committee for the last six years, during which we have together raised the […]
Chair of F&HC calls for immediate action on UK flag
Statement by Andrew Rosindell MP, Chair of Flags and Heraldry Committee Since our founding in 2008, the Flags and Heraldry Committee has worked with the Flag Institute to promote proper governance of our national symbols. Together we have pushed government hard to recognise the importance of the kind of basic care of our national flag […]
Scotland votes NO but UK cannot stand still
Citizens of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland woke up this morning in a UK unchanged and never to be the same again. The Westminster government (and many in what so nearly became ‘the rest of the UK’) will breathe a collective sigh of relief. Yet politicians of all shades will be aware that their […]
Will Australia’s flag change if Union is redrawn?
Will Australia’s flag change if the Union Flag is redrawn? The answer is a resounding no, says John Vaughan. A government-approved public competition chose the Australian National Flag in 1901. It is registered under law as the chief national symbol of Australia. The Commonwealth Parliament approved and passed into law the Flags Act 1953. After […]
UK Flag design: comments
With Scotland’s independence vote fast approaching, the Flag Institute is busy answering press enquiries from around the world. As the UK’s national vexillological association, our role is to inform public debate about flags. So we do our best to reply to every one. We conducted one such interview for the Mail on Sunday. Read the […]
Talks at 10 Downing Street
The Flag Institute today held high-level ministerial talks at 10 Downing Street, relating to the future of the Union flag. Andrew Rosindell MP and Lord West of Spithead (UK Parliamentary Flags and Heraldry Committee) organised the talks. John Hayes MP hosted the event in the library of 10 Downing Street. Present were the Committee’s flag […]
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