For a time during their history, maces were both functional and symbolic, both lethal and ceremonial, but gradually their warlike aspect diminished and it became entirely symbolic. Despite elaboration ...

Ayanna Williams, a junior government major at William & Mary, is the first Black woman to serve on Williamsburg City Council.

I believe it is a ceremonial mace. It belonged to my great-grandfather William Henry Massey, who was born in 1885 at Gautby, near Horncastle. I think it is from the Order of the Foresters in ...

A Hampshire town's original ceremonial mace has celebrated its 100th anniversary. Rushmoor Borough Council recently held a reception to mark the centenary of the gift to Aldershot from local ...

A new ceremonial mace will be introduced during Chadron State College’s Winter Commencement Friday. According to Professor Dr. Kurt Kinbacher, the mace celebrates the institution’s authority ...

"Graduation is where everyone is happy, it's a celebration of achievement and the mace is just the cherry on top," he said. The ceremonial mace symbolises the university's authority and signifies ...

Students from the University of Staffordshire have been asked to come up with a design Students are being asked to design a ceremonial mace to represent the Fenton area of Stoke-on-Trent.

A parliamentary session in the Bahamas was suspended after an opposition MP threw a ceremonial mace out a window causing a melee inside the chamber on December 4. Shanendon Cartwright, the deputy ...

Maces were originally medieval weapons of war that soldiers carried when protecting important people. Today, maces are purely ceremonial staffs carried at the front of processions during university ...

A large ceremonial staff was thrown out of a window by an opposition lawmaker during a parliamentary session in the Bahamas on Wednesday. Deputy opposition leader Shanendon Cartwright was seen ...