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Extracts from the Melbourne Newspaper, The Argus

A series of extracts from The Argus ranging from 1878 to 1880. They tell of the Kelly Gang's exploits and their encounters with colonial Victorian law enforcement. A few of the extracts towards the end of the list include descriptions of the…

Tags: Armour, Australian landscape, bush, bushranger, bushrangers, crime, criminal, Edward Kelly, Kelly Gang, knight, knights, landscape, law, legal, legend, legends, media, Melbourne, myth, mythology, Ned Kelly, police, stealing, theft

Swordcraft

Swordcraft is a live medieval re-enactment roleplaying game in which players wear realistic costumes and fight with realistic-looking weapons made of rubber and foam, and padded arrows. For photographs see the Gallery on their website. The group is…

Tags: Archery, Armour, arrow, battle, costume, fantasy, game, J.R.R. Tolkien, Melbourne, Orc, performance, re-enactment, roleplay, Swordcraft, The Lord of the Rings, Vic, Victoria, Warhammer, weapons, World of War

â€˜Gale rejects Lethalâ€™s â€˜serfsâ€™ claimâ€™ online article

An online article on June 25 reporting comments made by Brendon Gale, Chief Executive of the AFL club Richmond on air at Melbourne radio station 3AW. He was responding to earlier comments by AFL commentator Leigh Matthews that pay claims of …

Tags: 3AW, AFL, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Brendon Gale, feudal, Jennifer Witham, Leigh Matthews, Melbourne, online, pay dispute, radio, Richmond, sport, Victoria, website

Illustration of St Paul's Church, Melbourne

Depiction of St Paul's Anglican Church, Melbourne. The architectural style is typical of the gothic revival style common in Britain and the British colonies throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Tags: Anglican, Anglican church, architecture, Church, engraving, engravings, F.A. Sleap, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, saint, Saint Paul, St Paul, St. Paul, Victoria

Melbourne's Centennial International Exhibition by Night

An image of the Royal Exhibition Building lit up at night during the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888, from the Illustrated Australian News. The Royal Exhibition Building was designed by architect Joseph Reed and completed in 1880. The…

Female Servantâ€™s Revolt

This illustration is an early reference to the beginnings of the eight-hour movement. One of the first marches took place in Melbourne in 1856, when the Stonemasons working on the build of the University of Melbourne, marched to Parliament protesting…

Tags: Eight Hour Day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, labour, labourer, Melbourne, Melbourne 888, Peasants Revolt, revolution, women servants, work, worker, working class

"Gargoyles of Melbourne: Quaint and Curious Carvings by John Russell Parry," in The Argus

Gargoyles of Melbourne_The Argus_10 August 1929_p10.pdf

A lengthy illustrated article by John Russell Parry about gargoyles in Melbourne that appeared in the Melbourne newspaper The Argus on August 10, 1929. The article provides the etymology of 'gargoyle', derived from Latin via Old French, and explains…

Tags: carving, gargoyle, gargoyles, Gothic, gothic architecture, John Russell Parry, Latin, Melbourne, Old French, sculptor, sculpture, The Argus, Vic, Victoria

Shakespeare in Adaptation unit

Second and third year undergraduate unit at La Trobe University (Bundoora campus, in Melbourne)coordinated by Chris Palmer. The unit examines four of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, including two film versions of each play. One of the plays set during…

Tags: adaptation, Bundoora, Chris Palmer, drama, film, La Trobe University, MacBeth, Melbourne, Shakespeare, university, Victoria, William Shakespeare

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