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â€˜Lightâ€™ Verses

This poem is an example of the satirical verses published by The Bulletin to ridicule the perceived â€œopportunistic and self-servingâ€ collaborative association between former political opponents (aka â€˜rivalsâ€™), Sir Henry…

Tags: adversary, knight, lampoon, lance, Macquarie Lighthouse, NSW politics, Port Jackson, satire, Sir Henry Parkes, Sir John Robertson, Sydney Harbour, The Bulletin, verse

â€˜Living by the swordâ€™

The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…

Tags: â€˜Living by the swordâ€™, Adult education, education, Elizabethan, George Silver, Hobart, Leatherwood Online, performance, rapier, re-creation, Stephen Hand, Stocatta School of Defence, sword, swordsman, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmaniaâ€™s Journal of Discovery, Vincentio Saviolo, website.

â€˜Medieval bar wenchâ€™ dress

In the online article â€˜Brownlow Medal 2011 Best and Worst Dressed On The Blue Carpet!â€™ the dress of Rebecca Judd is disparagingly referred to as being â€˜a little more medieval bar wenchâ€™. However the included photograph shows…

Tags: AFL, Australian, Australian Football League, Brownlow medal, corset, dress, fashion, football, sport

â€˜Medievalâ€™ Mental Health Service to be Modernised

This article by Angela Pownall appeared in the online version of The West Australian newspaper. It reports on State Government legislation aimed at modernising the Western Australian mental health system. The existing system is described as being…

Tags: Angela Pownall, Archaic, article, government, health, internet, legislation, mental health, newspaper, online, The West Australian, WA, Western Australia

â€˜Melbournianaâ€™, The Bulletin, 23 February 1895

Detail FitzGibbon - 'Melbourniana' (23 Feb 1895), p. 12.jpg

This is another cheeky comment from Bulletin cartoonist Tom Durkin, directed at the reputedly self-important chairman of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, E. G. Fitzgibbon. In the cartoon Fitzgibbon is throwing a temper tantrum over…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ armor, Armour, civic administrator, Edmund Gerald Fitzgibbon 1825-1905, genealogy, knight, lineage, medieval ancestry, Melbourne, Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, Victorian politics, White Knight of Kerry

â€˜Mother and Childâ€™ by G. W. Bot

This linocut print, Mother and Child (1985), by artist G. W. Bot depicts a Madonna and child scene in which the frame is occupied almost exclusively by a Virgin Mary figure holding a child. Although held by a private collector, the piece was…

Tags: art, child, Christ, devotional, exhibition, G. W. Bot, icon, infant Jesus, Madonna, Mary, medieval painters, Mother, Mother and Child, religious art, spirituality, Virgin Mary

â€˜Peasantâ€™; or â€˜Pilgrimâ€™

This photograph was taken at the Gumeracha Medieval Fair, Adelaide Hills, South Australia by photographer Wendi Donaldson (May 2011). The image is entitled â€˜Peasant,â€™ but seeing as the man is wearing a scallop-shell as a badge in his…

Tags: Adelaide Hills, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, cockleshell, Gumeracha Medieval Fair, medieval costume, neo-medieval, peasant, pilgrim, pilgrimage, re-enactment, reneactment, SA, South Australia Wendi Donaldson

â€˜Road Knightsâ€™ by Daniel Rutter Long

This artwork by artist Daniel Rutter Long is titled â€˜Road Knightsâ€™. Completed in 1883, it is a watercolour and pencil painting depicting a rural farmhouse, cows, trees, an Aboriginal man wearing European dress, a seated woman and a…

Tags: art, artwork, Daniel Rutter Long, Gippsland, knight, Road knights, rural Victoria

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