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Serving flag nerdery realness since 1971 • Free expert advice on flags and their use
🎉 Well done if you identified the flags of Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 Brunei 🇧🇳 Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Portugal 🇵🇹
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Here's another quiz: Do you know which flags contain these symbols?
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Well done if you said Uruguay 🇺🇾 Slovakia 🇸🇰 Uganda 🇺🇬 Mongolia 🇲🇳
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Which flags contain these symbols?
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Did you know you can become a member of the Flag Institute, and receive our newsletters (digital or in print), and emails about our events? Join or renew today!
www.flaginstitute.org/wp/join-or-renew
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For our spring 2026 conference, we're going to BRISTOL 🤟 🗓️ 30-31 May 🏠 Gather Round, Brunswick Square, Bristol BS2 8NX 🎙️ 4 confirmed; more to be announced Get your ticket today
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-spring-26-conference-sponsored-by-flagmakers-tickets-1977359097289
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Flag Institute Spring '26 Conference sponsored by Flagmakers
A conference featuring a programme of contemporary and historical vexillological presentations and site visits around Bristol.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-spring-26-conference-sponsored-by-flagmakers-tickets-1977359097289
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Share your views: a community flag for Kinross-shire?
kinross.cc/flag/
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Flag - Kinross Community
Share your views: a community flag for Kinross-shire? We want ...
https://kinross.cc/flag/
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🛎️ Do you have some flag research to share, or an interesting flag story to tell? We're always looking for new articles and presentations, from the UK and overseas. If you have a flag-related project you’d like to present, contact Leigh on
[email protected]
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What do we think about this new suggested design for the flag of Shetland?
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Nordic connection at heart of suggested new Shetland flag design
DOES the Shetland flag need a refresh? The answer from Whalsay’s Magnus Hutchison is a yes - and his proposed design appears to be getting a fair bit of...
https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/12/05/nordic-connection-heart-suggested-new/
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This Saturday 15 Nov is our AGM and winter conference! Get a FREE ticket here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-agm-and-winter-2025-conference-tickets-1460810055199
Confirmed speakers: Peter Kirkwood José Manuel Erbez Maxim Saakyan & Leo Torosian Edgar Zaagsma Stan Moore Heather Binnington
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Flag Institute AGM and Winter 2025 Conference
The event is free to register and will be beamed worldwide.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-agm-and-winter-2025-conference-tickets-1460810055199
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It’s World Vexillology Day! Your chance to show off your favourite flag displays. We’d love to see them! 😍
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“A flag is nothing more than a symbol. That’s all it is. Humanity, ever since the dawn of time, we have needed symbols.” - Malcolm’s interview on the Big Issue
www.bigissue.com/news/politics/wave-st-georges-flags-england-national-identity/
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What the wave of St George's flags across England means for national identity
Across England, everyone's flying St George's flags. But is it a burst of national pride or something much more sinister?
https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/wave-st-georges-flags-england-national-identity/
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We've been busy speaking to the media about how flags reflect history, identity, and community across the UK.
pressat.co.uk/releases/fla...
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Flags in the Spotlight – Flag Institute Welcomes Upswing in Public Interest
The Flag...
https://pressat.co.uk/releases/flags-in-the-spotlight-flag-institute-welcomes-upswing-in-public-interest-784c7b4a8ec04e9a191671bca105bec3
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Leigh Wetherall
7 months ago
Flagmaster 170 is the latest issue of the
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flagship magazine, featuring original research and fresh perspectives from across the world. FI members receive Flagmaster twice a year, along with access to exclusive events and resources. Become a member...
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Today, Parliament Square is looking particularly stripey – it's Historic County Flag Day! From Cornwall to Caithness, every flag is out and flapping proudly and competitively in the breeze. Come for the heritage, stay for the vexillology-induced neck strain.
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Thoughts?
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Things we love to see. Taken today in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
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We’re in beautiful York for our spring conference! 🙌 We hope all of you gorgeous flag nerds attending have a great time hearing from our speakers!
9 months ago
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Ok BlueSky, what is your favourite flag fact?
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10 months ago
3 years after starting with Cameroon 🇨🇲, Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 completes the African continent in full-colour, to-scale flags hand-painted on a wall 🤟
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So it turns out St George’s Day is… today? We a) get to celebrate twice 🙌 b) are not complaining 😌
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10 months ago
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Happy St George’s Day! Wishing everyone a great day as we celebrate England’s patron saint.
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10 months ago
Hey Eritrea 🇪🇷 You look good there on the nearly-completed wall of African flags.
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You can still register for our spring conference in York! Dates: 17-18 May Venue: The Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre Speakers: 7 confirmed Also attending: Many flag nerds just like you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-spring-2025-conference-tickets-1232062374729?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Flag Institute Spring 2025 Conference
The conference will feature a programme of contemporary and historical vexillological presentations and site visits around York.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-spring-2025-conference-tickets-1232062374729?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Malawi 🇲🇼 and its 31 rays coming out of a red rising sun… here we go ✌️
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Zambia 🇿🇲 has a flag that looks impossible to hand-paint in 9x6cm… until it becomes possible 🤟
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Our spring conference 2025 will be in York! 🗓️ 17-18 May 🏠 The Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre, YO24 1AQ Some speakers already confirmed! Get your ticket today 👇
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Flag Institute Spring 2025 Conference
The conference will feature a programme of contemporary and historical vexillological presentations and site visits around York.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flag-institute-spring-2025-conference-tickets-1232062374729?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
Hey Mozambique 🇲🇿
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please use flags to celebrate, grow, and unite behind a common cause. don’t use flags to demand superiority, or bully or exclude people. that’s our TED talk.
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Congrats to Bothwell on its new flag! We love a flag ceremony, so here you are with a filming of the unveiling! 🥰
www.youtube.com/live/mue40QArDMg?si=Lw0NgKKYnXqAFCOE
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A flag quiz to start your 2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/01/parrots-trees-dragons-quiz-national-flag-changes
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Parrots, trees and dragons: test yourself with our quiz on national flag changes
The ‘independence flag’ now flies in parts of Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, but can you identify these other countries that have changed their flags (or not)?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/01/parrots-trees-dragons-quiz-national-flag-changes
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It’s cold and dark and wet. But it’s 141 days to the Eurovision final. And 180 days to Glastonbury. Longer, warmer days will come, and glorious flags will flap gaily in the summer skies. You beautiful flag nerds, hang on in there.
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about 1 year ago
Flagmaster 169 in paper and digital form is now with the worldwide
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membership. Articles include new Danish Flag Law, the Tino Rangatiratanga (Māori) flag, and flags in St Pierre and Miquelon. Sign up for FI membership at
www.flaginstitute.org/wp/
to receive your copy.
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Well done if you recognised the flag of Sarawak 👏
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Shared in our WhatsApp group. What flag is this? 👇
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about 1 year ago
The new Flag Master (169) has arrived. Very high quality as normal ! Stories on the new Danish flag law, the sheep that supplied wool for flag cloth, the Qatari flag, the St Pierre and Miguelon flag and the Tino Rangatiratanga (Māori) flag.
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For those of you who are members, Flagmaster 169 is being printed, and will be mailed to you this afternoon 🤩
about 1 year ago
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We love a flag question on a tv quiz. This one would be worth… £2… for any proper flag nerd
about 1 year ago
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Don’t mind us. We’ll just sit here and take photos of Dutch province flags from every angle
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You know you're a flag nerd when you're on a work call and you can't remember what the flag of Vanuatu looks like. So you open a new tab and look it up. Because PRIORITIES 🤘
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Our weird little heart is happier with flags 😌🍃
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about 1 year ago
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 From an outline in pencil to a full-colour, to-scale, hand-painted design 🤟
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about 1 year ago
Hey Uganda 🇺🇬 Solid flag you got there
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This what3words location in the Pacific Ocean is our Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, condensed. Brb sailing there ⛵️
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about 1 year ago
I was convinced the flag of Eswatini 🇸🇿 was too intricate to handpaint on my wall. Eventually I tried, and here we go 😍🤟
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The flag nerds have landed 🤓
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