Flagmaster is a vexillology

Vexillology

Vexillology is the scholarly study of flags. The word is a synthesis of the Latin word vexillum, meaning 'flag', and the Greek suffix -logy, meaning 'study'. The vexillum was a particular type of flag used by Roman legions during the classical era; its name is a diminutive form of the word velum...

 magazine published

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

 by the Flag Institute

Flag Institute

The Flag Institute is a research and documentation centre for flags and flag information, founded on St George's Day, 23 April 1971 by William Crampton and Captain EMC Barraclough CBE RN. Although not an official body, it is the principal advisor and designer of flags to the government of the...

 and edited by Michael Faul. Since November 2005, the magazine has been printed entirely in colour

Color printing

Color printing or Colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color...

; it is the second periodical principally about flag

Flag

A flag is a piece of fabric with a distinctive design that is usually rectangular and used as a symbol, as a signaling device, or decoration. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.The first flags were used to assist...

s to have been so printed (the first being Nordisk Flaggkontakt, the magazine of the Nordic Flag Society

Nordic Flag Society

The Nordic Flag Society is an association of Nordic vexillologists. It has an official name in the languages of all the five countries in which its activities are principally based: Nordiska Flaggsällskapet , Nordisk Flagselskab , Nordisk Flaggselskap , Pohjoismaiden Lippuseura , and Norræna...

).

Flagmaster was mentioned prominently in a 30 September 2006 article in the Economist magazine on the subject of the new flag of the English county of Devon

Flag of Devon

The Flag of Devon is the flag of the English county of Devon. It is dedicated to Saint Petroc, a local saint with numerous dedications throughout the West Country and particularly in Devon. It is notable for its creation through two web-based polls.-History:...

. The article cited the views of Flagmaster editor Michael Faul.

Much of the magazine's content constists of material previously published elsewhere in other languages. Most of the illustrations in the magazine are drawn by Graham Bartram

Graham Bartram

Graham Bartram is a British vexillologist who is currently Secretary-General for Congresses of the Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques, the Chief Vexillologist of the Flag Institute and a consultant to the British government on flag design and usage.Graham Bartram was born...

, who also designs and lays out the magazine for printing. The centre pages of the magazine form a pull-out gazette for the Institute, edited by the Institute's librarian, Ian Sumner.

Recent issues have covered the following topics:

Issue 119

• The Red Crystal - A new flag of the Geneva Convention.
• Treasures in the Attic.
• St Olav flag of the Norman people.
• Crosses and Stars - Flags of Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
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• A cultural flag for Hawai'i?
• Lewis and Clark Bicentennial - A forest of Native American
  Native Americans in the United States
  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
  
   flags.
• Flags in the News.
• Wooden Flag for Alaska
  Alaska
  Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
  
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• Oz goes purple?
• Congo-Kinshasa changes again
• Aircraft Markings - Part 3 (Russian Civil War)
• Proportions of the Union Flag
• New Emblems of Venezuela

Issue 118

• After 50 years - A new design for Europe
• Breton Flags in history - Part 4
• Flags of the Third Reich - Part 2
• The end of the Trafalgar
  Battle of Trafalgar
  The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
  
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• A Spanish Hero of Trafalgar
• The return of the Semaphore
  Flag semaphore
  Semaphore Flags is the system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands. Information is encoded by the position of the flags; it is read when the flag is in a fixed position...
  
  
• Castilian Nationalist Flags
• A new Flag for Oregon
  Oregon
  Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
  
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• Flags in the news
• New Flag for Lincolnshire
  Lincolnshire
  Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
  
  
• NAVA 39 Group photo
• Editorial
• The future of Flags
• Encyclopaedia Flag Plate - United States of America - Part 1

Issue 117

• England Expects - The Bicentenary of Trafalgar
• A Flag for Lincolnshire.
• Flags of the British Mandate of Palestine - Part 2
• Vexilobaires-The XXI Congress of Vexillology report
• Developments in Ukraine.
• German Army Rank Flags, 1925 - 1927
• The Crosses and Stars - Flag of Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  , Part 1
• Flags in the News.
• Aircraft Recognition Markings - Part 2.
• Polish-Lithuanian Flags at Tannenberg
  Tannenberg
  Tannenberg may refer to* Tannenberg, Saxony, a town in the district of Annaberg in the German state of Saxony* The German name for the village of Stębark in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland* Battle of Tannenberg or Battle of Grunwald...
  
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• How do you Vex ?
• A small point of interest.
• Not only the French-The Spanish fleet at Trafalgar.

Issue 116

• Historic Flag returns to Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
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• You can't win them all
• Obituary - Lucien Philippe
• Banners of the Teutonic Knights
  Teutonic Knights
  The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem , commonly the Teutonic Order , is a German medieval military order, in modern times a purely religious Catholic order...
  
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• Historic Flags of Mongolia
  Mongolia
  Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
  
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• A Flag for the Holocaust.
• Origin of the Flag of the Dominican Republic
  Dominican Republic
  The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
  
  
• Bannielou Breizh e Istor, Part 3.
• Flags of Estonia
  Estonia
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
  
  - 1918-1940.
• Flags in the news
• Mesa gets the message - Roswell does not.
• Flags of the Third Reich - Part 1
• German Scout and Guide Banners