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This elaborate staircase window in a converted St Kilda mansion is probably by Ferguson & Urie and dated c.1884. The window depicts a red-cloaked and fully armoured St George standing on the head of a dragon. Images of St George and the Dragon were…

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The front facade of the former Magistrate’s Court Building on the corner of La Trobe Street and Russell Street in Melbourne’s CBD. The Former Magistrate’s Court Building is a three-storey building of French Romanesque design that…

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An image of the entrance doorway to the former Magistrate’s Court Building in Melbourne’s CBD, on the corner of La Trobe Street and Russell Street. The Former Magistrate’s Court Building is a three-storey building of French…

The online newspaper article ‘Border fight spells trouble for viking busker’ appears in the online version of The Age newspaper, having originally appearing in the Albury, Victoria, newspaper The Border Mail. The article reports on the…

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Image of the St George and the Dragon bronze statue at the entrance to the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. The statue is the work of Viennese-born sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm. It was purchased by the State Library of Victoria for the sum of…

FrozenViking Argus9922.pdf
An article on page 8 of the Melbourne newspaper The Argus on September 9, 1922. The article corrects a previous article in The Argus that reported, based on accounts in American newspapers, that a Viking warrior had been found frozen in an iceberg…

Level 3 undergraduate unit ‘Romancing the Medieval’ coordinated by Stephanie Trigg at the University of Melbourne. The unit covers a variety of genres of medieval literature, as well as post-16th century works that re-create or revive…

Level 2 undergraduate unit ‘Shakespeare’ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period…
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