Flag Institute
Founded on St George's Day, April 23 1971 by William Crampton, President of FIAV, the Flag Institute is one of the world's leading research and documentation centres for flags and flag information. It is the principle advisor and designer of flags to the British Government. Amongst flag designs its officers have been involved with in recent years are, British Antarctic Territory; Tristan da Cunha; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Special Air Service. Since its creation, the Flag Institute has grown to be arguably the largest membership based vexillilogical organization in the world, having over 500 members from all five continents..
The Institute publishes a quarterly 20 page full colour journal, Flagmaster, and virtual magazine called eFlags. Since 2006 it has sponsored an annual public lecture on a flag related topic, known as the ‘Perrin Lecture’. It holds twice yearly meetings for its members in various locations around the United Kingdom. The Institute itself is governed by a Council of nine members elected annually by members.
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