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Sword-fight, Balingup Medieval Carnivale parade
A close-up digital photograph of a section of the parade at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale. This image features an impromptu sword-fight. Unfortunately for the combatant on horseback, he has no clear height advantage over his opponent on foot. The…
Swordcraft
Swordcraft is a live medieval re-enactment roleplaying game in which players wear realistic costumes and fight with realistic-looking weapons made of rubber and foam, and padded arrows. For photographs see the Gallery on their website. The group is…
Tags: Archery, Armour, arrow, battle, costume, fantasy, game, J.R.R. Tolkien, Melbourne, Orc, performance, re-enactment, roleplay, Swordcraft, The Lord of the Rings, Vic, Victoria, Warhammer, weapons, World of War
Sydney City Library, Haymarket, New South Wales
The current Sydney City Library building in Haymarket was built for the Commercial Banking Corporation of Sydney in 1875. The sandstone building on the corner of George and Hay Streets incorporates a number of architectural styles that can be traced…
Tasmanian Gothic: artwork by Elizabeth Barsham
Tasmanian Gothic is the website for Tasmanian artist Elizabeth Barsham (formerly E.M. Christensen). Her work is inspired by such things as medieval tapestries and the Renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel and Albrecht Dürer (according to the…
The "India" Small Pox Scare
In this letter to the editor of the West Australian Sunday Times in March 1900, the correspondent “B. Knighted†complains about quarantine practices that required doctors who boarded ships docked at Albany to quarantine patients suffering…
The 1865 Building: Brunswick Uniting Church, Melbourne, Victoria
A view of original church building at the Brunswick Uniting Church, located on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne. The Brunswick Uniting Church is unusual because two churches stand on the same site. They are of distinctly different appearance but…
Tags: arch, arches, architecture, Brunswick, buttress, Charles Webb (1821-1898), Church, church building, decorated gothic window, Evander McIver, gable, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, lancet arch, lancet window, neo-Gothic, Presbyterian Church, quoin, spire, tower, tracery, Vic, Victoria, Victorian Gothic
The ‘Australia’ window; or ‘Oceania’ in the Sydney Town Hall
One of two neo-romanesque with rounded heads and stylised borders designed by Frenchman Lucian Henry and manufactured by Goodlet & Smith for the Sydney Town Hall auditorium, at a time when national fervour was running high in the late nineteenth…