Medieval Knight leading National Savings Week
National Savings Week Willesden Borough, medieval chain mail, banner, banners, street processions, pageant, Australian reportage of medieval pageant, post World War II, World War II, World War, war, War Savings week
National Savings Week was a movement instituted in Great Britain in 1916 to raise funds to counteract government deficits. The emblem of the Movement was, at first, the Swastika but that was replaced with a figure that appears to be St. George slaying the dragon. This occurred before the start of World War II because the Swastika was adopted by the Nazis. The Movement consisted of local groups and was especially helpful during World War II. Australia had a War Savings Week from 1940 under the Menzies Government so the Australian reportage of the English movement in 1949 suggested the idea retained its currency.
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National Library of Australia
Trove, National Library of Australia
30 October, 1949
National Library of Australia
PDF; Photograph
English
SIMS Medieval
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In SIMS Medieval, the latest instalment of the virtual reality SIMS computer game series, players control a number of different heroes and characters ranging from kings and queens to knights, merchants, priests and blacksmiths. They send these characters on quests to earn points, and use these points to build a medieval kingdom. They can then ‘negotiate treaties, conduct trade or declare war on surrounding kingdoms’.
SIMS Studio
EA Games
EA Games
March 2011
EA Games
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Troubadour Song
poem, poems, poetry, poet, Australian, Australian poetry, Australian poem, Tasmania, classical, medieval, medieval undertones, warrior, warriors, war, romance, Troubadour, lyric, lyric poet, lyrical, lyrical poet, bard, bardic, court, courtly, courtly poetry, sing, singing, song
A poem featured in The Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, which conforms to lyrical and bardic poetic traditions. It has medieval and classical undertones in both style and language.
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National Library of Australia
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
6 May 1825, p. 4
National Library of Australia
Poem featured in newspaper
English
Meeting of Chamberlain and Eden clad as medieval admirals
Pre-World War II, world war, WWII, war, Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Eden, Mediterranean piracy, piracy, General France, France, submarines, Mussolini, cartoon, caricature, cartoons as political comment, political, politics, Punch, Punch Magazine
A ‘Punch’ cartoon of Neville Chamberlain (Primer Minister of the UK) and Anthony Eden (his Foreign Secretary) depicting them as medieval admirals watching a serpent titled ‘Mediterranean piracy’, saying ‘I say, even in holiday time. I think we shall have to take some notice of this’ was widely reported and held political sway. It urged the UK to act on increasing Italian piracy. News about the cartoon was published in the ‘Cairns Post’ Friday 3 September 1937, ‘Barrier Miner’ (Broken Hill, NSW) Friday 3 September 1937 with headlines ‘Punch Cartoon Urges Britain to Act’, ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ (Thursday 2 September 1937; ‘The West Australian’ Thursday 2 September 1937, ‘Morning Bulletin’ (Rockhampton, Qld.), Friday 3 September 1937, ‘Examiner’ (Launceston, Tas.) Friday 3 September 1937.
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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
3 Sept 1937
Public Domain
Newspaper Article
English
SMH Thurs 19 July 1945 Welcome Banquet in London Guildhall for Australian Sailors
Guildhall ceremonies, medieval banquet hall, Old and New worlds, brave hosts, heroic guests, war victory, street march, HMAS Australia, Australian navy, ‘young bronzed sailors’ myth, ruined medieval buildings, Waltzing Matilda on London streets, WWII, Second World War, Trafalgar Square, Admiralty Arch, military, navy, stained–glass windows, monuments, war, post-war celebrations
At the end of World War II, Australian sailors of the vessel HMAS AUSTRALIA are depicted as heroic warriors (young and bronzed) who are privileged to march the medieval streets of Old London to dine and mingle with the Admiralty in the bombed London Guildhall. The backdrop of broken medieval stained-glass windows, shattered monuments and the temporary tin Hall roof highlights British pride in their Old World heritage but invokes powerful metaphors of victory amid ruins with the assistance of the New World, Australia.
Staff Correspondent Sydney Morning Herald reporting from London
National Library of Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
18 July 1945
Public Domain
PDF, Newspaper Article
English
One-Man Tank, ‘Medieval Knight’
Medieval warfare, war, warfare, modern warfare, new weaponry, weapon, weaponry, medieval knight, knight, knights, one-man tanks, Martel Tank, agricultural equipment
Royal Engineer, Maj. Martel, invented a one-man tank that replicates the medieval knight in armour, with the addition of ‘caterpillar track legs’ and a ‘petrol engined heart’. The contraption is fashioned from car parts and farming tractors. One of its singular features its ability to be turned from a civilian machine into fighting artillery overnight, thus saving money.
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Repeated from London's Daily Telegraph
30 March 1926
National Library of Australia
Newspaper Article
English
C. E. W. Bean Oxford University heraldic shield
Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Victoria Barracks, Collaroy, plaque, heraldry, education, historians, official war histories, First World War, World War, war, World War I, journalism, Sydney Morning Herald, Gallipoli, Western Front, Australian War Memorial, Commonwealth Archives, Sir William Throsby Bridges and Sir Cyril Brudnell Bingham White, Tuggeranong, Oxford, university, Oxford University, shield
<span><span><span><span>Entry on Australian War Memorial website:<br /> </span></span></span></span><span>Black painted curved metal shield designed as a wall plaque, with the heraldic crest of Oxford University. The crest features an open book bearing the motto 'Dominus illuminatio mea' , with two crowns above the book and one below. The top of the shield has a semi-circular section soldered to it, to which is attached a black painted metal inverted 'V', folded over a metal ring, which allows it to be displayed on a wall. </span><span><span><br /> </span><span><cite><strong>Permalink:</strong> <a href="http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/REL39640" target="_blank">http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/REL39641</a></cite> </span><br /> <br /> <span>Summary from Australian War Memorial website:<br />This object was collected from Charles Bean's study at his home 'Clifton' in Collaroy, NSW. Bean is perhaps best remembered for the official histories of Australia in the First World War, of which he wrote six volumes and edited the remainder. Before this, however, he was Australia's official correspondent to the war. He was also the driving force behind the establishment of the Australian War Memorial. <br /> <br /> Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales. His family moved to England when he was ten. He completed his education there, eventually studying classics and law at Oxford. Bean returned to Australia in 1904 and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. <br /> <br /> Having dabbled in journalism, Bean joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a junior reporter in January 1908. He published several books before being posted to London in 1910. In 1913 he returned to Sydney as the Herald's leader writer. When the First World War began, Bean won an Australian Journalists Association ballot and became official correspondent to the AIF. He accompanied the first convoy to Egypt, landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and began to make his name as a tireless, thorough and brave correspondent. He was wounded in August but remained on Gallipoli for most of the campaign, leaving just a few days before the last troops. <br /> <br /> He then reported on the Australians on the Western Front where his admiration of the AIF crystallised into a desire to create a permanent memorial to their sacrifice and achievements. In addition to his journalism, Bean filled hundreds of diaries and notebooks, all with a view to writing a history of the AIF when the war ended. In addition he organised the collection of battlefield relics from AIF soldiers on the Western Front through the formation of the Australian War Records Section. In early 1919 he led a historical mission to Gallipoli to collect relics for the Memorial, obtain Turkish accounts of the campaign and report on the condition of war graves. <br /> <br /> On his return to Australia Bean and his staff moved into Tuggeranong homestead, south of Canberra, to work on the official history. In 1921 he married Ethel (Effie) Young, a nursing sister at the Queanbeyan hospital whom he first met when she visited Tuggeranong to play tennis. They later moved to Sydney, where he continued to write at Victoria Barracks. When he began, Bean imagined that the history would take five years to write; in the event it took 23 years, and the final volume did not appear until 1942. <br /> <br /> Besides his written work, Bean worked tirelessly on creating the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. He was present when the building opened on 11 November 1941 and became Chairman of the Memorial's board in 1952. He maintained a close association with the institution for the rest of his life. <br /> <br /> During the Second World War, Bean liaised between the Chiefs of Staff and the press for the Department of Information. He became Chairman of the Commonwealth Archives Committee and was instrumental in creating the Commonwealth Archives. Between 1947 and 1958 he was Chairman of the Promotion Appeals Board of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He also continued to write, producing a history of Australia's independent schools and finally a book on two senior AIF figures, Sir William Throsby Bridges and Sir Cyril Brudnell Bingham White. Bean received a number of honorary degrees and declined a knighthood. Bean, one of the most admired Australians of his generation, died after a long illness in Concord Repatriation Hospital in 1968. <br /> <br /> Much of the material from Bean's study was originally housed in his Tuggeranong Homestead office where he began writing the official histories. When the family moved it was transferred to his homes in Sydney. Effie continued to use the study after her husband's death. The study was dismantled after her death in July 1991 and transferred to the Australian War Memorial. <br /> <a href="http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/REL39640" target="_blank">http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/REL39640</a></span></span>
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Australian War Memorial Website
c 1898-1902, UK
Australian War Memorial
REL39641
Photograph; Hyperlink
"Australian War Memorial: Largest Stone Building in the Southern Hemisphere."
ACT, architecture, Australian Capital Territory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, cloisters, Court of Honour, gargoyles, Hall of Memory, loggia, medieval architecture, memorial, monument, sandstone, stone building, Tower, war, war memorial.
This article from The Canberra Times in 1941 provides an update on the building of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Construction had begun in 1937, and the Memorial was set to be the largest stone building in the southern hemisphere. A description of the memorial is provided, from which it is apparent that some of its features are based on medieval architecture. This includes a row of decorative gargoyles lining the Court of Honour, and the inclusion of loggia and cloisters in the overall design. Cloisters were a common feature of medieval monasteries, while gargoyles were used in gothic architecture to direct water away from buildings.
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The National Library of Australia: <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2561830" target="_blank">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2561830</a>
The Canberra Times
15 July 1941
National Library of Australia
Newspaper Article