Heraldry – How and Why the Flowering?
Speaker: Gordon Casely
When it comes to heraldry, Gordon Casely is an unashamed modernist who pushes forward with the present and the future. His lecture examines both the present, and some of the context that’s created this present. He reflects on both the rise in grants of arms across 21st-century Scotland, as well as the growing interest in heraldry.
He asks how and why this has occurred, and how arms have been put to use – and raises the dual questions of how we ensure that more people take up heraldry and gain arms. Or gain arms and then take up heraldry.
The Highland Council, Inverness Town House, High Street, Inverness, IV1 1JJ 
08/03/2022 6:30pm Registration, 7pm Start, 8pm to 9pm Reception
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Gordon Casely
Gordon Casely is a freelance journalist, heraldist and piper. whose enjoyment of working life has covered posts in Scotland and London.
He’s a lifetime cyclist, awheel in every continent except Antarctica, and clocking 183,000 miles so far. He gained his first bike aged five…..and very soon hopes to be able to dispense with the stabilisers.
In 1977, he was a founding member of the Heraldry Society of Scotland. He loves promoting heraldry and helping to gain arms for companies, councils and people. Sometimes, he thinks he ought to go and get a real job. The trouble is – if he did, he wouldn’t get to meet such nice people.