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Entrance, St Patrickâ€™s Cathedral, Melbourne

These two photographs show the entrance to St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, Victoria. The elaborate porch has an arched entrance and includes sculptures of human heads as well as a tracery grill. St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral was designed…

Tags: Catholic, England, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, minor basilica, porch, sculpture, St Patrickâ€™s Cathedral, Vic, Victoria, William Wardell.

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society, New South Wales

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society are a New South Wales re-enactment group who own The Danelaw, a 120 acre property in a pine forest between Sydney and Canberra that is used by re-enactment groups. The property includes a fort, axe- and…

â€˜Alfred Was Great Kingâ€™

‘Alfred Was Great King’ is an anonymous article that appeared in the Charters Towers, Queensland, newspaper The Northern Miner in 1954. The article is about the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon/English king Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the Great.…

Tags: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Charters Towers, Danes, education, England, King Alfred, law, literature, navy, Old English Chronicle, Qld, Queensland, The Northern Miner, vikings, Wessex.

Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, Hadspen, Tasmania

The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd is in the town of Hadspen, Tasmania. Archdeacon Thomas Reibey of Hadspen had the plans for the church drawn up by W.G. & E. Habershon of London and the foundation stone was laid in 1868. Reibey was largely…

Tags: Anglican, buttress, Church, Church of the Good Shepherd, England, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Hadspen, lancet window, Lutterworth, pointed arch, Tas, Tasmania., Thomas Reibey, W.G. & E. Habershon

Longford Morris Dancers, Tasmania

Longford Morris Dancers are a group of Morris Dancers who, although associated with the town of Longford, rehearse in the city of Launceston in Tasmania. The group perform the Cotswold and Borders (the border between Wales and England) versions of…

Tags: Borders Morris, costume, Cotswold Morris, dance, England, folk dance, folk music, Launceston, Longford, Longford Morris Dancers, performance, Tas, Tasmania.

Australian Morris Ring

Australian Morris Ring is an organisation that represents Australian Morris dancers. It represents ‘sides’, or Morris dancing teams, in all Australian states and territories except the Northern Territory. The groups perform the Cotswold,…

Medieval artefacts, St Davidâ€™s Cathedral, Hobart, Tasmania

St David’s Cathedral, Hobart, was designed by English architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) in 1865 in the Gothic Revival style, with further revisions in 1891. As the foundation stone for the Cloisters and Tower were not laid until…

Europa Re-enactment Association Inc.

Europa Re-Enactment Association Inc. are a living history group based at Springwood in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. The group focus on the period of Viking rule of the city of Jorvik (York) in northern England from 876-954. They re-enact such…

Tags: Archery, Armour, article, Blue Mountains, Celtic cross, combat, cooking, costume, craft, culture, England, Europa Re-enactment, Europa Re-enactment Association Inc., games, helmet, hut, Jorvik, living history, logo, map, Middleton Cross, New South Wales, Norse, NSW, OÃ°inr, Odin, oven, performance, re-enactment, ring-chain, shield, spear, Springwood, sword, viking, warrior, website, Wiccy, York.

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