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The Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, Victoria

The Abbotsford Convent, located in the inner city Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford, operated as a convent, reformatory and Magdalen Asylum from 1863 until the mid-1970s. The convent was run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic religious…

"Serfs Hit Back" Online Article

An online article on June 18, 2011, by Jennifer Witham based on comments that AFL commentator Leigh Matthews made on-air at the Melbourne radio station 3AW. Matthews described the pay claims of the players against the AFL as the â€˜serfs fighting…

Tags: 3AW, AFL, Australian football, Australian Football League, Australian Rules, Australian rules football, feudal, football, Jennifer Witham, Leigh Matthews, Melbourne, online, pay dispute, radio, sport, Victoria, website

The Procession

This article from The Argus newspaper provides a report of an Eight Hours procession through the streets of Melbourne in 1887, during which at least 50 different trades were represented. It makes note of the increasing size and elaborateness of the…

"Yellow Benches for Jews: Berlin's Latest Act," in The Argus.

Yellow Benches for Jews_The Argus_17 September 1937_p11.pdf

An article on page 11 of the Melbourne newspaper The Argus in September 1937. The article reports on two benches in Berlin in Nazi Germany being painted yellow for use by Jews. The article says that the decision recalled an edict in the medieval…

Tags: Anti-Semitism, Berlin, Canon law, discrimination, Fourth Lateran Council, Germany, Jew, Melbourne, Muslim, Nazis, Pope Innocent III, The Argus

'Romancing the Medieval' Unit

Level 3 undergraduate unit â€˜Romancing the Medievalâ€™ coordinated by Stephanie Trigg at the University of Melbourne. The unit covers a variety of genres of medieval literature, as well as post-16th century works that re-create or revive…

The Illuminations of Melbourne - the General Post Office

Image of the Melbourne General Post Office at night. The building was illuminated to celebrate the arrival of Queen Victoria to Australia. The lights on the building read "God Save the Queen" and "Long May She Reign." It was a medieval custom to…

Tags: English sentimentality, General Post Office, God Save the Queen, illuminations, lights, Melbourne, queen, Queen Victoria, Royal family, Royal visit, Victoria

The Modern Permanent Building Society's New Offices, Collins Street, West Melbourne

An engraving featured in The Illustrated Australian News of the recently built Gothic Revival style offices of the Modern Permanent Building Society.

Tags: architect, architecture, building, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Gothic Revival style, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Permanent Building Society

Viking busker article

The online newspaper article â€˜Border fight spells trouble for viking buskerâ€™ appears in the online version of The Age newspaper, having originally appearing in the Albury, Victoria, newspaper The Border Mail. The article reports on the…

Tags: Albury, busker, horned helmet, Melbourne, performance, re-enactment, reproduction, sword, The Age, The Border Mail, Vic, Victoria, viking

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