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Birka Traders

Birka Traders was the online store created by Peter Beatson to sell his medieval metalwork. The collection included mainly jewellery and personal items such as belt buckles and strap ends, and focussed on the early medieval period, particularly the…

Tags: archaeology, armaments, Birka, jewellery, market, merchant, metalwork, New South Wales, NSW, Peter Beatson, re-enactment, retail, Sweden, Sydney, trading centre, viking, Viking Age

Black Ravens Medieval Re-enactment Group

The Black Ravens are a steel weapons Medieval Re-enactment Group based in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the fourteenth century and make their own combat and feasting gear. Their website includes a useful section on tunics and…

Tags: ACT, Armour, Australian Capital Territory, Black Ravens, Black Ravens Medieval Re-enactment Group, Canberra, living history, re-enactment, steel weapons, tunic, weapon, website

Black Wolf re-enactment group

Black Wolf is a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Allora. They are focus on the Crusades and Crusader experiences in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their leader is ‘Duke Robert…

Tags: Allora, Armour, Black Wolf, blog, caravan, chain mail, costume, Crusader, Crusades, Duke Robert, helmet, Holy Land, Ibn Battuta, knight, living history, Marco Polo, merchant, Middle East, multicultural, outremer, Qld, Queensland, re-enactment, shield, Silk Road, sword, trade, website.

Blacktown Medieval Fayre

This online newspaper article by Ben McClellan appeared in the Blacktown Advocate on May 21, 2012. It reports on the recent Blacktown (western Sydney) Medieval Fayre. According to the article, the Fayre featured medieval-themed stalls, demonstrations…

Tags: Armour, Ben McClellan, Blacktown, Blacktown Advocate, Blacktown Medieval Fayre, costume, fair, jousting, knights, New South Wales, newspaper, NSW, re-creation, re-enactment, Sydney

Burdiken Medieval Knights

Burdiken Medieval Knights are a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Home Hill on the Burdekin River. The group have a channel on YouTube that features a series of films, including broadsword lessons and demonstrations,…

Citadel Medieval Society

Citadel Medieval Society is a living history group based in Queensland. The group were founded seventeen years ago and focus on two time periods and locations: the port of La Rochelle, France, in c. 1370 during the Hundred Years War; and the German…

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society, New South Wales

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society are a New South Wales re-enactment group who own The Danelaw, a 120 acre property in a pine forest between Sydney and Canberra that is used by re-enactment groups. The property includes a fort, axe- and…

Detail of a mounted Knightâ€™s leg at Ironfest

This close-up image of a mounted knightâ€™s leg was taken at Ironfest in 2008 by the photographer Richard Taylor. It reveals a blend of contemporary customs and traditional workmanship, for modern re-enactments of jousting require utmost…

Tags: â€˜Ironfest, â€™ joust, Armor, Armour, body armour, caparison, combat, Full Tilt, greave, heraldry, horse, jousting, kneecup, knight, Lithgow, New South Wales, NSW, plate armour, poleyns, re-enactment, reenactment, Richard Taylor

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