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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

St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, ca. 1895

A photograph of St Andrewâ€™s Cathedral in Sydney dating from c.1895. St Andrewâ€™s functions as the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and is the oldest cathedral in Australia. Construction of the cathedral was completed in 1868,…

Knightqueste Myspace Profile

A hyperlink to the Myspace music profile for Australian metal band, Knightqueste. Based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Knightqueste have utilised elements of a typically 'masculinised' medieval past. In particular, there is a strong focus on…

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild are a re-enactment group based in Coffs Harbour, or Korffs Haven, in New South Wales. The group concentrate on the period 1066-1166 and such peoples as Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, Crusaders, Highlanders (of Scotland), and…

Tags: Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Archery, chain mail, Coffs Harbour, combat, cooking, costume, craft, Crusader, Crusades, dyeing, embroidery, feast, felting, food, games, helmet, Highlanders, Korffs Haven Medieval Guild, leatherwork, living history, New South Wales, Norman, NSW, performance, re-enactment, sewing, shield, slingshot, spear, stave, sword, viking, website, woodwork.

The â€˜Australiaâ€™ window; or â€˜Oceaniaâ€™ 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…

Mainly Medieval

â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™ is an online store that provides a range of products for medieval enthusiasts. The catalogue lists for sale reference books about aspects of the medieval period, magazines related to re-enactor activities such as…

Tags: â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, artefacts, consumption, material culture, New South Wales, NSW, re-enactment, reenactment, replica, reproduction

Mainly Medieval replica spoon

An advertisement for a replica medieval eating spoon distributed by â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, an online re-enactor supplies company based in New South Wales. The spoon is made from food grade pewter. It is described by the catalogue as…

Tags: â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, acorn, acorn knop, consumption, dining, dining utensils, food, knop, material culture, medieval eating customs, New South Wales, NSW, pewter, replica, reproduction, spoon, symbolism, utensils

Replica Thirteenth-Century Devotional Candleholder

An advertisement for a replica thirteenth-century devotional candleholder distributed by â€˜Mainly Medievalâ€™, an online re-enactor supplies company based in New South Wales. In purified Christianised logic, the candle is a symbol of…

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