A chatty coat of arms? According to the French, it is. Known as arms parlant or ‘canting’ arms, these shorthand emblems of identification play a visual pun on the family surname. It is up to the ...

There are a couple of thousand different Polish coats of arms. You might expect that these would all include images of some lofty or knightly character but that isn’t always the case. Many are ...

Researching your family history can reveal all sorts of fascinating and unexpected things about your ancestors - from where they lived and how they worked, to secret siblings and long lost cousins. As ...