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Gledden Building, Perth, Western Australia
The Gledden Building is in the Perth CBD and was designed by architect Harold Boas. It was built in 1937 and 1938, and is named after Robert Gledden who had gifted the land that the building is on to The University of Western Australia in 1927. The…
Louise D’Arcens, ‘Comic Medievalism’ presentation
This photograph was taken during the early part of a plenary paper by Louise D’Arcens of the University of Wollongong titled ‘Comic Medievalism: Why and How the Middle Ages make us Laugh’. The paper was presented at the PMRG/CMEMS…
St George’s Chapel Exterior, Perth, Western Australia
St George’s Anglican Chapel is the chapel of St George’s College, a residential college for students attending The University of Western Australia in Perth. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid in 1928 by Archbishop Riley and the…
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Hurdy Gurdy demonstration
This photograph shows Alana Bennett playing a six stringed Phoenix Standard hurdy gurdy made by Helmut Gotschy in Germany (www.gotschy.com). The hurdy gurdy is a stringed instrument played by using a crank-turned wheel. It developed from fiddles and…
Hieronymus Bosch, The Haywain Triptych Tableau vivant
A photograph recreating a scene in The Haywain Triptych panel painting by Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. The recreated scene occurs in the centre of the central panel of the work that was probably painted in the early sixteenth century. The central…
Hieronymus Bosch, The Haywain Triptych Tableau vivant - the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group
Photographs recreating a scene in The Haywain Triptych panel painting by Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. The recreated scene occurs in the centre of the central panel of the work that was probably painted in the early sixteenth century. The central…
The Wolf Letters Website
Will Schaefer’s novel ‘The Wolf Letters’ is a murder-mystery set in England in 1936, but the murders relate to events in the eighth century. An historian investigates. The novel was inspired by the life of the Anglo-Saxon missionary…
The Winthrop Singers
The Winthrop Singers is a choir formed in 2007 following collaboration between the School of Music at The University of Western Australia and St George’s College. The choir are led by Dr Nicholas Bannan and regularly perform at St…