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The Discovery of Australia: Made in the Fifteenth Century, The Chronicle, 27 March 1897
This short notice in The Chronicle in 1897 informs readers about a paper in which Edward Augustus Petherick, the head of Australian booksellers E.A. Petherick & Co., would argue that Australia was founded in the medieval period. His evidence, the…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, film, 1925 - review
Victor Hugo’s novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, anglicised to ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ explores a number of themes: the role of religious fanaticism in medieval theology, passion and, for Hugo, old versus new Paris. France’s…
The Other House
In this article from the Western Mail newspaper, notice is given about the publication of Henry James’s novel “The Other Houseâ€. The novel had been published by William Heinemann in London the previous year (1896). The author of…
The Viking
A poem advertising the film ‘The Viking’ on page 6 of the Darwin newspaper, the Northern Territory Times on July 24, 1931. The poem mentions historical Viking Age Danish kings Gorm and his son Harald Bluetooth, and other terms associated…
The Viking Breed
An article on page 4 of The Brisbane Courier newspaper on April 6, 1909. The article reports on an official welcome in Sydney Town Hall for returned Antarctic explorer Professor (Sir) Edgeworth David. In recounting the achievements of the expedition…