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The Viking Battle Ship

VikingBattleship BrisbaneCourier10608.pdf

An article on page 4 of the Brisbane Courier newspaper on July 10, 1908. The article is about the decision to make a Viking battleship (in other articles about the event it is referred to as a Viking Dragon Ship) the centre-piece of a church fÃªte.…

Tags: Armour, battle, battles, Brisbane, Brisbane Courier, Church, clothing, fÃªte, fete, parade, Qld, Queensland, recreation, saga, ship, ships, St. Paulâ€™s church, sword, swords, viking, vikings, weapon, weaponry, weapons

The Esford Armoury â€˜Knights Templarâ€™ Range

This website advertises a range of Knights Templar garb and weaponry that has been designed with the guidance of â€˜The Knights Templarâ€™, a Brisbane-based re-enactment society. The Knights Templar formed what was arguably the most powerful…

The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, Brisbane

The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, located in Brisbane, Queensland, aims to provide an understanding of the human past through dynamic interpretation and historical re-enactment. They provide displays and offer a diversity of events and…

St. Patrick's Day Procession, Queen Street, Brisbane, 1903

An image of crowds of people gathered on Queen Street in Brisbane, QLD to watch the floats in a St. Patrick's Day parade. Processions with banners were a feature of the later medieval period. The banner for the St Patrick's day procession also…

Tags: Brisbane, Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Celtic, ceremony, cross, harp, Ireland, Irish, parade, parades, procession, processions, Qld, Queensland, religion, religious, ring-headed cross, saint, Saint Patrick, saints, St Patrick, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day

Queensland Living History Federation

The Queensland Living History Federation (QLHF) are an umbrella group based in Brisbane for 54 smaller historical re-enactment, or living historian, groups in Queensland. QLHF formed in 1997 and its members re-enact time periods from the Roman Empire…

Tags: Brisbane, Fort Lytton National Park, History Alive, living history, Lytton, Qld, QLHF, Queensland, Queensland Living History Federation, re-enactment

Modern Viking Family

An article on page 3 of the Brisbane newspaper The Courier-Mail on October 4, 1951. The article â€˜Modern Viking Family Hereâ€™ reports on a Norwegian family who had sailed to Queensland in search of a pleasant place to live. Their origin…

Tags: Brisbane, Norway, Norwegian, Qld, Queensland, ship, ships, The Courier-Mail, viking, vikings

Members of the Saint David's Society of Brisbane

An image depicting men and women of the Welsh Saint David's Society of Brisbane, gathered around the Society's banner, which depicts a dragon. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY: The Saint David’s Welsh Society was founded on 16th April 1918 with…

Tags: association, associations, banner, banners, Brisbane, club, clubs, dragon, fraternities, fraternity, Qld, Queensland, saint, Saint David, saints, societies, society, St David, Wales, Welsh, Welsh dragon

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…

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