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â€˜The Australian Jubilee Peerage: A Detailed Scheme for the Institution of Various Long-Needed Australian Orders of Nobilityâ€™, The Bulletin, 25 June 1887

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This full-page illustration by the Bulletinâ€™s American-born cartoonist Livingston Hopkins (aka â€˜Hopâ€™), pokes fun at some of Australiaâ€™s prominent political figures. The 25 June 1887 issue of the Bulletin reviewed Queen…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ Australian politics, Britain, heraldry, honours, Jubilee, knight, knighthood, Livingston York Hopkins (1846-1927), Melbourne, nobility, peerage, political figures, politics, Queen Victoria, social mobility, Vic, Victoria, White Knight of Kerry

'Are We Medieval?' The Worker, 2 January 1904

This article from Brisbane publication The Worker rebukes derisive comments published by a London journalist mocking Australia’s legislation concerning workers as a reversion to medieval trade laws. Responding to McKenzie’s quip that…

Tags: Criticism, democracy, economy, guild, industrialisation, labour, legislation, McKenzie, medieval guilds, politics, Professor Thorold Rogers, progress, trade, trade bosses, trade guilds, trade unionism, wages, workers, working conditions

'Close Combat'

This is one of several â€˜battleâ€™ images from the NEMAS Easter Gathering in Armidale, NSW, in 2008. A number of medieval re-creation enthusiasts are engaged in close combat. They are armed with swords and what look to be mostly kite…

'Fictions of History' Unit

Undergraduate unit â€˜Fictions of Historyâ€™ offered at the Hobart campus of The University of Tasmania (Coordinator: Dr Rosemary Gaby). The unit investigates how the past is represented in literature and includes Sir Walter Scottâ€™s…

Tags: fiction, fictional, historiography, Hobart, Ivanhoe, literature, medievalism literature, Rosemary Gaby, Tasmania, universities, university, University of Tasmania, UTAS, Walter Scott

'Golden era of neo-Gothic', Domain Website

This 2010 article by Jenny Brown for the Domain website is about the late nineteenth century Gothic Revival architecture in Melbourne, Victoria. The article focusses on what is now known as the ANZ Gothic Bank on the corner of Collins and Queen…

Tags: ANZ, ANZ Gothic Bank, bank, Domain, English, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Jenny Brown, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Old Stock Exchange, pointed arch, Safe Deposit, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank, Vic, Victoria, website, William Pitt, William Wardell

'Kryal Castle Dwarf'

An image of the 'Kryal Castle Dwarf' behind glass at Kryal Castle in Ballarat, Victoria. According to the description alongside the figure, the Kryal Castle Dwarf was inspired by the medieval period, when "little people...traveled from Court to…

Tags: Ballarat, battlements, castle, court, crenelation, drawbridge, dwarf, dwarves, entertainment, figure, functions, gate, imp, jester, Keith Ryall, Kryal Castle, leisure, little people, Melbourne, moat, porticullis, re-creation, recreation, royal, royal court, royalty, statue, tourism, tower, Vic, Victoria

'Performance of excerpt from Aucassin et Nicolette'

This performance of an excerpt from Aucassin et Nicolette was performed by Alana Bennett on November 1, 2012 as part of her MEMS (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Honours dissertation at the University of Western Australia. The four minute film…

'Romance'

The long-vanished past is briefly reconfigured in this sad and poignant poem. It allows us a fleeting glimpse of what has (or may have) been, even though we find ourselves standing in the waking world â€œUnder blue skies in a fair land.â€…

Tags: â€˜Creeve Roeâ€™, Alice Werner (1859-1935), castle, chivalry, Gothic medievalism, knight, L. D. (1859-1935), Lucia Di Valle Rojana (1859-1935), melancholia, poetry, romance, tournament, Victor Daley (1858-1905)

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