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The Esford Armoury â€˜Knights Templarâ€™ Range

This website advertises a range of Knights Templar garb and weaponry that has been designed with the guidance of â€˜The Knights Templarâ€™, a Brisbane-based re-enactment society. The Knights Templar formed what was arguably the most powerful…

The Happy Viking: Leatherwork and craft of the Viking and Medieval Age

The Happy Viking: Leatherwork and craft of the Viking and Medieval Age is an online store which opened in 2012. It is owned by Elizabeth (Hlif), a re-enactor from Maleny, Queensland. The hand-made Australian products include leatherwork, pottery,…

Tags: Braid, Celtic, craft, Elizabeth (Hlif), jewellery, leatherwork, Maleny, pottery, Qld, Queensland, re-enactment, store, Sweden, The Happy Viking, The Happy Viking: Leatherwork and craft of the Viking and Medieval Age, ValsgÃ¤rde, viking, weaving, website.

Citadel Medieval Society

Citadel Medieval Society is a living history group based in Queensland. The group were founded seventeen years ago and focus on two time periods and locations: the port of La Rochelle, France, in c. 1370 during the Hundred Years War; and the German…

Robin Hood drawing

This drawing of Robin Hood appeared on page 14 of the Rockhampton, Queensland, newspaper the Morning Bulletin on August 9, 1935. The drawing by Robert Cantle appears in the ‘Children’s Corner’ section of the newspaper and depicts…

Tags: bow, bow and arrow, drawing, Morning Bulletin, outlaw, Qld, Queensland, Robert Cantle, Robin Hood, Rockhampton.

Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows Delegates, Ravenswood, 1907

This is an image of a group of delegates at a 1907 conference for the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. The Oddfellows are afriendly societythat first emerged in the UK and may date to the fifteenth century when members of trades not represented by…

Tags: banner, fraternities, fraternity, friendly societies, friendly society, Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows, Oddfellows, Queensland, regalia

Burdiken Medieval Knights

Burdiken Medieval Knights are a living history/re-enactment group based in the Queensland town of Home Hill on the Burdekin River. The group have a channel on YouTube that features a series of films, including broadsword lessons and demonstrations,…

Adaptation: Studies in Transmission between Cultures and Forms

A 2011 undergraduate unit run by Associate Professor Frances Bonner in the School of English, Media and Art History at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. Week 7 of the unit uses Tolkienâ€™s books informed by the early medieval…

Tags: Brisbane, fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, Qld, Queensland, The Lord of the Rings, The University of Queensland, Tolkien, universities, university

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…

Tags: Allora, Armour, Black Wolf, blog, caravan, chain mail, costume, Crusader, Crusades, Duke Robert, helmet, Holy Land, Ibn Battuta, knight, living history, Marco Polo, merchant, Middle East, multicultural, outremer, Qld, Queensland, re-enactment, shield, Silk Road, sword, trade, website.

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