The book on Macedonian symbols by our member and president of the Macedonian Heraldic Society, Jovan Jonovski, was issued in English in USA by the Flag Heritage Foundation (FHF). It is an adaptation of his doctoral dissertation defended at the University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Skopje in 2018 and published in Macedonian in […]
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Congratulations, Dr. Jonovski!
On 12 Junly 2018 our Macedonian friend and a HGZD member from the very beginning, Jovan Jonovski, president of the Macedonian Heraldic Society (MHZ), successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Sun and Lion as Symbols in Heraldry and Vexillology of Macedonia” at the National History Institute of the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje […]
The Flag Heritage Foundation issued »Vexillology as a Social Science« by Željko Heimer
The sixth publication in The Flag Heritage Foundation Monograph and Translation Series, titled Vexillology as a Social Science, was issued in April. It is the English adaptation of the major part of the doctoral thesis by Željko Heimer, defended at the Postgraduate Doctoral Studies of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies of […]
In Memoriam Dr Whitney Smith
The father of modern vexillology, Whitney Smith established in 1961, together with Gerhard Grahl, the first vexilological journal The Flag Bulletin, and the next year estanlished the Flag Research Centre (FRC). He was its director until his retirement in 2013 when the entire considerable library and archive was transferred to the University of Texas in […]
New book Trako Poljak: »Croatian Symbolic Identity«, TIM press, Zagreb, 2016
Recently the Zagreb publisher TIM press issued a new monograph by Doc. Dr. Sc. Tijana Trako Poljak titled »Croatian Symbolic Identity« with subtitle »Meanings of National Symbols from Croatian Citizens’ Perspectives«. On 316 pages of paperback binding the monograph is result of the doctoral thesis and the scientific qualitative emipirical research performed in 2013. This […]
»Grb i zastava« № 15 Issued
A new issue of our magazine »Grb i zastava« was printed these days and our members may expect it soon in their mail boxes. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam International publishing house. From the contents we highlight: On the front page photographs from the Restrospective Exhibition of the International Art Flags Festival […]
Željko Heimer’s Thesis »Croatian Armed Forces Identity as Expressed through the Military Unit Flags in the Homeland War and Following it« Defended, 27.3.2013
With the thesis defence held on 27 March 2013, Željko Heimer accquired his doctorate at the post-graduate study of sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies of the University of Zagreb. The thesis titled »Croatian Armed Forces Identity as Expressed through the Military Unit Flags in the Homeland War and Following it« was made […]