From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, find books, articles, cuttings, letters, research notes, artwork, photographs and more in our William Crampton Library catalogue.
Open-access, itemised index to flag research, scholarship and publishing, unique in world vexillology: browse, search or download here
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Library catalogue: journals
Fully indexed: Blazon- kaj flag-bulteno (Czech Republic); CHF (Finland); Coat of Arms* (UK); Dragonlore* (UK); eFlags (UK); Emblemata (Spain); Emblèmes et pavillons (France); Estandarte (Argentina); Флаг (Russia); Flag Research Quarterly (US); Flag Bulletin (FRC); Flaga (Poland); Flagfax (UK); Flaggen, Wappen und Siegel (Czech Republic); Flaggenforum (Germany); Flaggenkurier (Germany); Flagmaster (UK); Flagscan (Canada); Gaceta de Banderas (Spain); Grb i Zastava (Croatia); Heraldry Society Flag Section Newsletter (UK); Herold (Bulgaria); Heroldi (Georgia); Info FIAV (FIAV); Irish Vexillology Newsletter; Lieuhat Värit (Finland); Macedonian Herald (North Macedonia); NAVA News (US); New England Journal of Vexillology (US); Nordisk Flagkontakt (Scandinavia); Nordisk Flagsskrift (Scandinavia); Raven (US); SAVA Flag Specification Sheets (Southern Africa); SAVA Journal (South Africa); SAVA Newsletter (South Africa); Seaxe* (UK); Somerset Dragon* (UK); VAST News (US); VexiInfo (Czech Republic); Vexil.la Catalana (Catalonia); Vexil’Oc (Occitania); Vexilla Belgica (Belgium); Vexilla Italica (Italy); Vexillacta (Belgium); Vexilologie (Czech Republic); Vexillologia (France); Vexillum (US); Vexilloargentina (Argentina); Vexilokontakt (Czech Republic); Vexilolog (Czech Republic); VIBE Newsletter (Ireland)
* relevant articles only
In progress: Ar Banniel (Brittany); Banderas (Spain); Le Cabinet des drapeaux communique (Germany); Crux Australis (Australia); Drapeaux et Pavillons (France); Flag Institute Flag Specification Sheets (UK); Flaggenmitteilungen (Switzerland); Flagwaver (US); Vexilla Helvetica (Switzerland); Vexilla Nostra (Netherlands); Vexilla Notizie (Italy); Vexillae Francia (France); Vexillinfo (Belgium); Vexilloid Tabloid (US); Vlag! (Netherlands); Vlaggen-Info (Netherlands); Zászlómúzeum Info (Hungary); Znak (Ukraine); assorted sample and specimen titles
To index: Info-Bulletin (Netherlands); Uniformenmarkt (Germany) |
Library catalogue: user guide
The catalogue comprises eight columns headed A—H, displayed in default order A C D E.
A: main heading
- normally a country listed under its modern name: each vanished country appears under the name of the closest equivalent modern state
- also includes: works on International Organisations; general or multinational works on any categor(y/ies) listed under column C
B: period
- country-specific, representing significant changes in the style of the national flag
C: type of symbol
- General: works covering more than one symbol
- National: representing the state
- Head of state: includes immediate family (if applicable)
- Government: government departments and their agencies
- Naval: rank, appointment or dignity; individual ships, units, formations or commands; marines
- Military: rank, appointment or dignity; individual units, formations or commands
- Air force: rank, appointment or dignity; individual units, formations or commands
- Civic: units of local government
- Political: political parties; other political movements e.g. dissidents or separatists
- Sports: organised sports, governing bodies and clubs
- Other: any organisation not otherwise included
- Ecclesiastical: organised religions
- Ethnic: a community as an ethnic group rather than a nation state
- Display and use: regulations and customs of flag protocol; attitudes of a community towards its flag(s)
- National identity: as expressed through flags and other symbols (more general than ‘Display and use’)
