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The World Overseas: ‘A Relic of Other Days’
Included in this Western Mail Supplement page of pictures from around the world, Image 6 shows a festive horserace running through the marketplace in Siena, Italy. The caption describes the festival as a ‘relic from other days’; the last…
Tags: archbishop, Cathedral, festival, horseracing, Italy, jockey, medieval festival, medieval games, Siena, Tuscany
Finucane-Higgins
This article from the wedding column of the Western Mail gives an account of the wedding of Josephine Higgins and Kevin Finucane at St Mary’s Cathedral on 6 January 1930. The bride’s dress is described as a picture frock of soft white…
Promising Colt
In this article concerning the sale of a yearling racehorse in Melbourne, the sire is identified as a horse named “Medieval Knightâ€. The colt was offered for sale by Alan Lechte in Messrs William Inglis and Son’s yearling catalogue…
Cord-making at the SCA College Challenge - St. Basil vs. St. Lazarus
Two girls in twelfth and thirteenth century dress making cord on lucets at the Society for Creative Anachronism's College Challenge between St. Basil (UWA) and St. Lazarus (Murdoch University). The event was held on the UWA campus on the 19th…
Finger Braiding at the SCA College Challenge - St. Basil vs. St. Lazarus
A girl in a sixteenth century inspired dress and cap demonstrating the art of finger braiding at the Society for Creative Anachronism's College Challenge tournament. The event was held at the University of Western Australia and featured participants…
A Page for Women and Perhaps Men: Medieval Angels
Included on this page from the Western Mail in 1935 is a photograph of three women, identified as the Petter sisters, dressed as ‘medieval angels’ at a Halloween Ball in London.
Heiress Marries Prince
In this article from the Western Mail, news from Paris informs readers about a cheering crowd of 3000 people, mostly women, who mobbed Miss Barbara Hutton, the American Woolworths’ heiress, and Russian Prince Alexis Mdivani as they left the…
Eight Hour Day Parade in Brisbane, 1912
Photograph portraying a 1912 parade celebrating the Eight Hour Day. Trade unionists are in the parade showing their support by bearing a medieval inspired banner. Some historians consider trade unions to be the successors of medieval guilds.
Tags: Labor, labour, Labour Day, parade, procession, Trade Union, trade unionism, union, unionism, work, working class