Seven Years of 'This Week In Vexillology'


It began seven years and two blogs ago today, so I figured I'd take a post to celebrate it's birthday while at the same time, updating the archives so everyone can see what all we've done over the years. My brief sojourn on Wordpress lost me a years worth of archives, but I'm almost done updating those and we'll see how many more flags we can find to talk about. I honestly feel like I'm going to have to sit down and have a think about the future of this feature- because it's getting harder and harder to find flags to talk about--- not that I'm not up to that challenge, it just makes it harder to churn these out on a regular basis. Plus, I really don't want to get tired of this. Flags are incredibly important symbols and the best of them honestly can rise to the level of art if done right. 

So, Happy Birthday 'TWIV' here's to many more!

The Complete Archive Part One

#201: India
#202: Paraguay
#203: City of Chicago
#204: Lesotho
#205: San Marino
#206: Andorra
#207: Nunavut
#208: Romany Flag
#209: Malta
#210: Bahia
#211: North Korea and South Korea
#212: Tulsa and Tampa
#213: Ghana
#214: The Sun of May (Argentina and Uruguay)
#215: Georgia and Georgia (State and Country)
#216: Pride Flags!
#217: Flag Day Special- TN, OH, HI
#218: Canada Day: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador
#219: 4th of July Special: Colorado
#220: Gold Cup Doubleheader 1: Costa Rica and Panama
#221: Gold Cup Doubleheader 2: Guatemala and El Salvador
#222: Gold Cup Doubleheader 3: Honduras and Suriname
#223: Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden
#224: Tibet
#225: Belize
#226: Sri Lanka
#227: Veneto
#228: Antarctica
#229: Togo
#230: Equatorial Guinea
#231: Germany
#232: Bavaria
#233: Bremen
#234: Saarland
#235: Mecklenburg-Vorpommen
#236: Mauritania
#237: City Flags-- Buffalo, Toronto and Madrid
#238: Senegal, Nigeria, and France
#239: Colombia, Belgium and Switzerland
#240: Belarus and Bulgaria
#241: Benin and Burkina Faso
#242: Lithuanian Flags (maybe three of them?)
#243: Ogoni People
#244: Pitcairn Island
#245: Kansas
#246: Ethiopia and Eritrea
#247: Hungary
#248: Yukon
#249: Andalucia
#250: Connacht
#251: Munster
#252: Leinster
#253: Ulster
#254: Luxembourg
#255: Niger
#256: Sarawak
#257: Saskatchewan
#258: Flevoland
#259: Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo
#260: Guinea and Guinea-Bissau
#261: 4th of July Special: South Dakota
#262: Bastille Day Special: French Regional Flags
#263: 'The Coolest Flags In Human History' (io9.com article)
#264: Two Sudans
#265: Three Somalias
#266: Side Project Update
#267: Venezuela
#268: Ghana and Ivory Coast
#269: Chad and Cameroon
#270: Cornwall and Devon
#271: Dorset and Somerset
#272: Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
#273: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
#274: Sussex and Surrey
#275: Kent and Essex
#276: Oxfordshire and Berkshire
#277: Worcestershire and Herefordshire
#278: Warwickshire and Northamptonshire
#279: Cambridgeshire and Suffolk
#280: Norfolk and Lincolnshire
#281: Shropshire and Staffordshire
#282: Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
#283: Yorkshire
#284: Northumberland and County Durham
#285: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
#286: Bedfordshire and Cheshire
#287: Rutland and Merseyside
#288: Lancashire and Cumberland
#289: West Midlands and Leicestershire
#290: Tyne & Wear and Greater Manchester
#291: Some Thoughts On The Betsy Ross Flag
#292: Algeria and Libya
#293: Mali and Tunisia
#294: Liberia and Western Sahara
#295: Somaliland and Kaliningrad

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