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Advertisement for the Medieval Shoppe Australia

An advertisement for The Medieval Shoppe, a store in NSW which produces and sells replicas of swords, shields, armour, and other historical weapons. The advertisement is shot in black and white and features The Medieval Shoppe crest and five men clad…

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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…

Tags: Armour, arts festival, blacksmith, costume, festival, helmet, jousting, Kingdom of Ironfest, knight, Lithgow, living history, New South Wales, NSW, performance, plate armour, re-enactment, replica, shield, sword, website.

"Requiescat" by Briton RiviÃ¨re

This oil on canvas painting by English artist Briton Rivière was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (from the artist) in 1897-1898. Completed in 1888, it depicts an armoured medieval knight lying supine on top of a wooden bed and…

Tags: Armor, Armour, art, bed, bloodhound, breastplate, burial rites, byrnie, chain mail, chainmail, coif, couter, cuisses, death, dog, epitaph, greaves, hauberk, helmet, hood, knight, mail, maille, pauldron, plate armour, poleyn, rerebrace, rest, sabaton, shynbald, soul, vambrace, wreath

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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Images of Ironfest

Billed as â€˜An Arts Festival with a Metal Edgeâ€™ 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…

Tags: Armour, art, arts, arts festival, blacksmith, costume, festival, helmet, jousting, Kingdom of Ironfest, knight, Lithgow, living history, New South Wales, NSW, performance, plate armour, re-enactment, replica, shield, sword, website

Black Wolf re-enactment group

Black Wolf is a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Allora. They are focus on the Crusades and Crusader experiences in the Middle East during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their leader is ‘Duke Robert…

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Esk Festival

The Esk Festival, also known as the Brisbane Valley Festival, is an annual single-day event held in the Queensland town Esk. A major component of the festival are displays of ‘Living History & Medieval Re-enactments’ which take place…

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