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A Medieval Manor House_Sunday Times_6 October 1935_p31.pdf
In this article from a regular children’s column in the Sunday Times called “The Girls and Boys Club”, a standard and idealised description of medieval manor houses is provided. According to the author, a fifteenth-century manor…

The opinion piece,“Catallictics [mutatas dicere formas] An Introduction to New Speculations [In nova fert animus] takes it Latin from the first lines of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; I tell now…

Image depicting a children's float for the Ancient Order of Foresters at a parade in NSW. About the Ancient Order of Foresters: The Ancient Order of Foresters originated in England in the mid-eighteenth century, with the first recorded Foresters…

Images of children belonging to the Ancient Order of Foresters riding billycart floats at a NSW parade. About the Ancient Order of Foresters: The Ancient Order of Foresters originated in England in the mid-eighteenth century, with the first…

Sir Kaark the Crow_Sydney Morning Herald_16 July 1947_p11.pdf
Sir Kaark the Crow is a children's comic strip that featured in the Sydney Morning Herald. Set in a medieval land of dragons, knights, wizards and a bad baron, it combined common medieval themes such as chivalry and gallantry with animal characters…

Sir Kaark the Crow_Sydney Morning Herald_16 April 1947_p15.pdf
In this children's comic strip from the Sydney Morning Herald in 1947, Sir Kaark the crow escapes from the clutches of a hungry dragon by donning the armour of a knight who is bathing in a pool nearby. He is then asked to rescue the 'Lady in…

Sir Kaark the Crow_Sydney Morning Herald_6 August 1947_p11.pdf
In this children's comic strip from the Sydney Morning Herald, the medieval themes of chivalry and gallantry are combined with anglicised Australian animal icons. In the comic, a dream is depicted in which Kaark the Crow imagines himself as a…
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