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Ironfest

Billed as ‘An Arts Festival with a Metal Edge’ Ironfest is an annual festival held in the New South Wales city of Lithgow. The festival involves artists and blacksmith working with metal, as well as historical re-enactors, musicians, and…

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Billed as â€˜An Arts Festival with a Metal Edgeâ€™ Ironfest is an annual festival held in the New South Wales city of Lithgow. The festival involves artists and blacksmith working with metal, as well as historical re-enactors, musicians, and…

Tags: Armour, art, arts, arts festival, blacksmith, costume, festival, helmet, jousting, Kingdom of Ironfest, knight, Lithgow, living history, New South Wales, NSW, performance, plate armour, re-enactment, replica, shield, sword, website

Knights Order of Lion Rampant

Knights Order of Lion Rampant is a living history group based in the Brisbane suburb of Lutwyche. The group were founded in 1991 and focus on the culture of chivalry, especially that surrounding tournaments, that existed in western and central Europe…

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild are a re-enactment group based in Coffs Harbour, or Korffs Haven, in New South Wales. The group concentrate on the period 1066-1166 and such peoples as Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, Crusaders, Highlanders (of Scotland), and…

Tags: Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Archery, chain mail, Coffs Harbour, combat, cooking, costume, craft, Crusader, Crusades, dyeing, embroidery, feast, felting, food, games, helmet, Highlanders, Korffs Haven Medieval Guild, leatherwork, living history, New South Wales, Norman, NSW, performance, re-enactment, sewing, shield, slingshot, spear, stave, sword, viking, website, woodwork.

Medievalism and Youth Culture Masterclass

An invitation to postgraduate students and early career researchers to attend the ARC Masterclass â€˜Medievalism and Youth Cultureâ€™. The Masterclass is to be held at The University of Western Australia on December 6, 2011, and is led by…

Mainly Medieval

â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™ is an online store that provides a range of products for medieval enthusiasts. The catalogue lists for sale reference books about aspects of the medieval period, magazines related to re-enactor activities such as…

Tags: â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, artefacts, consumption, material culture, New South Wales, NSW, re-enactment, reenactment, replica, reproduction

Replica Thirteenth-Century Devotional Candleholder

An advertisement for a replica thirteenth-century devotional candleholder distributed by â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, an online re-enactor supplies company based in New South Wales. In purified Christianised logic, the candle is a symbol of…

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.

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