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The Centennial International Exhibition

An image of the Royal Exhibition Building 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 round-arched…

Preparing for the Exhibition â€“ Gilding the Dome (Illustration)

An illustration of painters gilding the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. This task was undertaken in association with other contracted repainting and redecorating work in the lead-up to the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition.…

Centennial International Exhibition Parade

An illustration of a street parade in Collins Street, Melbourne, drawn from the perspective of the Treasury Buildings. Crowds of spectators line the street to watch as a procession of horse-drawn floats and trade banners are paraded along Collins…

Festival of Hildegard, Centre for Theology and Ministry, Melbourne, Victoria

The Festival of Hildegard was an educational event held at the Catholic Loreto College’s Centre for Theology and Ministry at St Mary’s College in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, Victoria. The event ran from October 19-21, 2012, closing…

Woman hit in head with â€˜swordâ€™ as mock medieval battle goes wrong

This online newspaper article by Henrietta Cook appeared in The Age on March 15, 2012. It reports on an incident during the weekly Swordcraft event in Melbourne, Victoria, in which a woman was hit in the head by a rubber sword and required medical…

Tags: battle, game, Henrietta Cook, Melbourne, performance, re-enactment, Swordcraft, The Age, Vic, Victoria

â€˜Melbournianaâ€™, The Bulletin, 23 February 1895

Detail FitzGibbon - 'Melbourniana' (23 Feb 1895), p. 12.jpg

This is another cheeky comment from Bulletin cartoonist Tom Durkin, directed at the reputedly self-important chairman of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, E. G. Fitzgibbon. In the cartoon Fitzgibbon is throwing a temper tantrum over…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ armor, Armour, civic administrator, Edmund Gerald Fitzgibbon 1825-1905, genealogy, knight, lineage, medieval ancestry, Melbourne, Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, Victorian politics, White Knight of Kerry

â€˜White Knightâ€™, The Bulletin, 17 November 1894

In this cartoon from The Bulletin in 1894 a serious-faced Edmund Fitzgibbon, fully-armoured and seated astride a caparisoned Kangaroo instead of a steed, charges off to give battle to an unnamed adversary. On a handy perch (a sign pointing to India),…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ armor, Armour, battle, civic administrator, Edmund Gerald Fitzgibbon 1825-1905, genealogy, Jubilee Peerage, knight, kookaburra, lineage, Melbourne, Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, Thomas C. Durkin (1853-1902), town clerk, Victorian politics, White Knight of Kerry

Shakespeare Unit

Level 2 undergraduate unit â€˜Shakespeareâ€™ coordinated by Peter Eckersall at the University of Melbourne. In part the unit investigates film and television adaptations of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, and two plays set in the medieval period…

Tags: adaption, drama, dramatic, film, films, Hamlet, MacBeth, Melbourne, Peter Eckersall, Shakespeare, television, universities, university, University of Melbourne, Victoria, William Shakespeare

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