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Novaroâ€™s Italian Restaurant sign, Launceston, Tasmania

Novaro’s Italian Restaurant is in Brisbane Street in the northern Tasmanian city of Launceston. The photograph shows the sign for the restaurant, which features a Lion of St Mark. This particular version is, with the addition of a halo,…

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Medieval FightClub shop

Medieval FightClub is an online store with a warehouse in the New South Wales town of Wyee. They sell ‘Historical replica products from Medieval and Ancient times’ including various weapons, clothing, drinking horns, accessories,…

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Ironfest

Billed as ‘An Arts Festival with a Metal Edge’ Ironfest is an annual festival held in the New South Wales city of Lithgow. The festival involves artists and blacksmith working with metal, as well as historical re-enactors, musicians, and…

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“Millie and Chard win Beauty and the Geek Australia”, Perth Now, 29 November 2012.

This online article from the Perth Now website describes the fourth season finale show of TV programme Beauty & the Geek Australia, from which contestants Chard and Millie emerged as winners. Pursuing a ‘happily ever after’ fairytale…

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Battle of Nations 2013

The Battle of Nations Festival is a full contact medieval tournament held in Europe which began in 2009. Australia will field a team for the first time in 2013 and will be captained by Kit Houston. The event features various combat categories, from…

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Novaroâ€™s Italian Restaurant sign, Launceston, Tasmania

Medieval FightClub shop

Ironfest

“Millie and Chard win Beauty and the Geek Australia”, Perth Now, 29 November 2012.

Battle of Nations 2013

Images of Ironfest

The Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology, Brisbane

Hourglass Gauntlets