Elizabeth Roads of Edinburgh (pronounced Edinburra) is the first woman ever, after a 35-year career at the heraldry office forScotland, to be appointed herald at the Court of  the  Lord Lyon. The English equivalent, the College of Arms, has never had a female herald. The individual we call a “herald” today is not the trumpet-blowing [...]

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