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==History== Badges were as popular as jewellery in the [[Middle Ages]], and varied from extremely expensive works of jewellery, like the [[Dunstable Swan Jewel]], to simple mold-made badges in lead or other base metals.<ref>{{cite book|title=Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds |author=Ann Marie Rasmussen|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|date=2021|page=4}}</ref> Specialized forms were the [[pilgrim badge]], worn by those who had completed a [[pilgrimage]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Push me, pull you. Imaginative, emotional, physical, and spatial interaction in late medieval and Renaissance art|editor-last=Blick|editor-first=Sarah|year=2011|location=Leiden|pages=473β491|chapter=Jennifer Lee, 'Searching for Signs: Pilgrims' Identity and Experience made visible in the Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis'}}</ref> and [[heraldic badge|heraldic]] or [[livery badges]], worn to denote service or allegiance to a political figure β these last were especially popular in England, and became very controversial in the period leading up to the [[Wars of the Roses]]. One royal celebration in 1483 was marked by the distribution of 13,000 badges, a huge number relative to the population at the time. Other types were funerary badges, presumably presented to mourners for the funeral of important figures, and simple decorative badges with animals or hearts. The grandest form of badge was worn as a pendant to a metal collar, often in gold or [[silver-gilt]]. From the livery badge, various badges of service evolved, worn by officials, soldiers and servants. In the [[British Army]] a metal (today often plastic) [[cap badge]] denoting the soldier's [[regiment]] became standard by the 17th century, as in most European armies (though not always navies). By the 19th century a badge was an almost invariable part of any [[uniform]], including [[school uniform]]s, which in the UK usually still feature the school's badge in cloth on the breast pocket of the jacket or [[blazer]].
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