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Henry IV, Part I, New Fortune Theatre at UWA

This series of photographs were taken at the performance of the play Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare at the New Fortune Theatre at the University of Western Australia on September 16, 2011. The free performance was part of the three-day…

Henry IV, Part I, New Fortune Theatre

This series of photographs were taken at the performance of the play Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare at the New Fortune Theatre at the University of Western Australia on September 16, 2011. The free performance was part of the three-day…

Performance of Henry IV, Part I, New Fortune Theatre, UWA

This series of photographs were taken at the performance of the play Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare at the New Fortune Theatre at the University of Western Australia on September 16, 2011. The free performance was part of the three-day…

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group display

This display at the 2012 PMRG/CMEMS â€˜Receptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriationsâ€™ conference (Perth, August 2012) celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group. The display showed many of…

Tags: Banquet, conference, display, lecture, performance, Perth, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group display, PMRG, re-creation, Receptions, The University of Western Australia, WA, Western Australia.

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…

Tags: â€˜Receptionsâ€™, Alana Bennet, conference, demonstration, hurdy gurdy, instrument, music, performance, Perth, poem, University of Western Australia, WA, Western Australia.

â€˜Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bangâ€™

This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…

Tags: ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ballista, Carol Raabus, counterweight trebuchet, crossbow, Doug Pattison, Hobart, performance, re-creation, siege, siege engine, Tas, Tasmania, trebuchet, war, website.

Rognvaldâ€™s Lith: Lismore Medieval Re-enactment Society

Rognvald’s Lith: Lismore Medieval Re-enactment Society is a re-enactment group founded in 2003 and based in Lismore, New South Wales. The group concentrate on the period 700-1200 and such peoples as Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Rus, and Vikings.…

Laurie Payne & Tony Hughes in Costume for Camelot

In this black and white photograph from the Laurie Payne Collection of Theatrical Photographs (held by the National Library of Australia), actors Laurie Payne and Tony Hughes in their costumes for the musical Camelot are pictured with an unnamed man…

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