Archive Department

The Librarian of the College of Arms, currently Mark Scott, Somerset Herald, oversees the Archive Department. This department, headed by the Archivist Dr James Lloyd, is responsible for the preservation, ordering, and cataloguing of the archive and library, and the accession of new acquisitions. The Archivist also arranges the many loans of College manuscripts to major exhibitions in the United Kingdom and overseas.

Recent loans of this kind have been made to the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tower of London, and the National Maritime Museum, in London, as well as the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. The department also maintains a small students' room for academic or scholarly research. To contact the Archive Department please get in touch with the Officer in Waiting. This access will be by appointment with the archivist. A letter of introduction and photographic ID are required.

Online exhibitions have been created by Dr Darby, who was until recently College of Arms Archivist. A list of these can be seen here.

 

Conservation Department

The College of Arms maintains a respected Conservation Department, headed by Christopher Harvey, which is dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the College's large archive of manuscripts and its library of printed books.

Working closely with the Archive Department, and overseen by Adam Tuck, Lancaster Herald, the conservators perform all necessary repairs on volumes in the College's custody, including appropriate structural repairs to historic volumes, the binding of new records and collection care.

Much of the Department's conservation work is generously funded by donations via the College of Arms Trust.