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â€˜Living by the swordâ€™

The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…

Tags: â€˜Living by the swordâ€™, Adult education, education, Elizabethan, George Silver, Hobart, Leatherwood Online, performance, rapier, re-creation, Stephen Hand, Stocatta School of Defence, sword, swordsman, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmaniaâ€™s Journal of Discovery, Vincentio Saviolo, website.

â€˜Tasmaniaâ€™s Historic Towersâ€™.

The 1949 article ‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’ by M.S.R. Sharland appeared in the Hobart, Tasmania, based newspaper The Mercury. The article discusses a number of stand-alone towers in Tasmania, including two medieval-styled…

Tags: â€˜Tasmaniaâ€™s Historic Towersâ€™, article, Evandale Water Tower, folly, Hobart, M.S.R. Sharland, newspaper, Panshanger Pigeon Tower, Tas, Tasmania, The Mercury, tower.

â€˜Tasmanian Gothicâ€™, Compass, ABC TV

‘Tasmanian Gothic’ was an episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Compass television programme presented by Geraldine Doogue. The story was researched by Wendy Boynton and aired on June 24, 2012 to celebrate the 200th…

â€˜The bride woreâ€¦ a swordâ€™

The article ‘The bride wore… a sword’ by reporter Hannah Martin appeared in the online version of the Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury. The article reports on a medieval ‘Celtic’-style wedding of two members of the…

Tags: Celtic, costume, Hannah Martin, Hobart, Medievalist wedding, newspaper, Port Arthur, re-enactment, SCA, Society for Creative Anachronism, sword, Tas, Tasmania, The bride woreâ€¦ a sword, The Mercury, torc, wedding.

â€˜The Talismanâ€™, Examiner, Tasmania

‘The Talisman’ is an article by Robert Power published in 1924 in the ‘Two Minute Talks’ section of the Launceston newspaper the Examiner. The article is about the importance of putting ones faith in God rather than…

Tags: Armour, Charlemagne, charms, Examiner, Excalibur, Hereward the Wake, horn, King Arthur, knights, Launceston, newspaper, Normans, Robert Power, Roland, Song of Roland, supernatural, sword, Tas, Tasmania., The Talisman

â€˜The Towersâ€™ building, Hobart

‘The Towers’ building is in the Hobart suburb of Newtown and lends its name to Tower Road. It was designed by English-born convict architect James Blackburn in c. 1845 as a grand domestic building built around an internal courtyard. The…

Tags: â€˜The Towersâ€™, arched windows, convict, crenellation, domestic architecture, Hobart, James Blackburn, Newtown, Tas, Tasmania, tower, turret

â€œRobin Hoodâ€ (pantomime)

This 1924 article in the Hobart based newspaper The Mercury advertises two performances of the pantomine 'Robin Hood' at the Bijou Theatre. The performances were held 'by special request' following an earlier successful season. The pantomine is…

Tags: Bijou Theatre, Hobart, newspaper, outlaw, pantomime, performance, Robin Hood, Tas, Tasmania., The Mercury, theatre

Alfred Ibbott memorial window, St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Bothwell, Tasmania

The Alfred Ibbott (1844-1928) memorial window is in St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church in the Tasmanian town of Bothwell. The window (on the left in the photograph) is one of two lancet windows parrallel. The figures are framed by a…

Tags: Alfred Ibbott, Anglican, Bothwell, crenellation, finial, Gothic, Gothic Revival, lancet window, memorial, parapet, pointed arch, Romanesque, St Michael and All Angels Church, Tas, Tasmania.

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