Mothers Day, <em>The Register,</em> 7 May 1915
Adelaide, celebration, Church services, custom, duty, gifts, gratitude, family, festival, homage, Lent, May, medieval custom, mother, mothering, mother’s day, observance, tradition, SA, South Australia, Sunday, white flowers, Young Women’s Christian Association.
This article from <em>The Register</em> in 1915 traces the origins of Mothers’ Day celebrations to the medieval period, when adolescent children would be afforded a holiday from work on the fourth Sunday in Lent to ‘go a-mothering’. On such occasions, the article explains, family members would assemble and pay homage to mothers by presenting gifts, and a general air of festivity ensued with special Church services and prayers containing more than usual reference to family life. While some elements of the festivities were not adopted in Australia, the article continues, the observance of mothers day is regularly marked by the wearing of white flowers, and by annual festivals such as the one conducted at the Young Women’s Christian Association headquarters in Adelaide.
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TROVE: National Library of Australia, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59602764" target="_self">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59602764</a>
<em>The Register</em>
7 May 1915, p.6
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Australian Morris Ring
ACT, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Morris Ring, Borders Morris, costume, Cotswold Morris, dance, England, folk dance, folk music, Morris Dancers, New South Wales, North West Morris, NSW, performance, Qld, Queensland, SA, Sides, South Australia, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, WA, website, Western Australia.
<p>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, Borders (the border between Wales and England), and North West (of England) versions of Morris dancing, Morris dancing is an English folk dance that is attested from the late fifteenth century. There are also other dances mentioned elsewhere in Europe that may have a common origin.</p>
<p>For more information see <a href="http://www.morris.org.au/index.html">http://www.morris.org.au/index.html</a></p>
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Maxwell Mead
Anglo-Saxon, Beowulf, beverage, label, honeymoon, honey wine, king, McLaren Vale, Maxwell Mead, Maxwell Wines, mead, poetry, SA, Scandinavia, South Australia, stained glass, sword, Viking.
<p>The McLaren Vale, South Australia, company Maxwell Wines produce three varieties of Maxwell Mead. Their website explains that although mead was first drunk much earlier than the medieval period, it has a particularly strong association with Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age (c. 790-1000), where the Mead of Poetry is a mythical drink that allows one to become a poet. Mead is also drunk by the Danish warriors in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem <em>Beowulf</em>. The website also claims that the term ‘honeymoon’ comes from a newlywed couple being given mead as an aphrodisiac in the hope of conceiving a child (this etymology is difficult to prove).</p>
<p>The label of Maxwell Mead features a medieval king standing in front of a stained glass window and holding a sword.</p>
<p>For their website see <a href="http://www.maxwellwines.com.au/maxwell-mead/">http://www.maxwellwines.com.au/maxwell-mead/</a></p>
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Maypole dancing around Australia
ACT, Australian Capital Territory, dance, festival, folk, folk dance, New South Wales, NSW, Norfolk Island, Northern Territory, NT, Qld, Queensland, SA, South Australia, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, WA, Wales, Western Australia
Maypoles and the folk dance associated with them are a popular event, often involving children, at festivals throughout Australia. The origins, and possible symbolism, of Maypole dancing are uncertain but they can be traced back at least as far as the late medieval period, with a mid-fourteenth-century Welsh poem describing a Maypole of birch. The top of the pole often has coloured ribbons attached and the dance involves the participants moving in a circle around the pole weaving in and out, thereby forming a woven pattern with the ribbons around the Maypole. The links in this entry are of early Maypole dances from all States and Territories of Australia, as well as Norfolk Island. The age of some of the photographs suggest that the tradition of Maypole dancing may have arrived with the earliest European settlers.
14 June 2012
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Neo-gothic Windows, Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, arch, architecture, blind tracery, column, equilateral arch, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, lancet arch, lancet window, leadlight, mullion, neo-gothic, pointed arch, quatrefoil, SA, South Australia, The University of Adelaide, tracery, university, university buildings, William McMinn (1844-1884), William Mitchell (1861-1962), window
An image showing examples of neo-gothic windows at of the Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide. The lower row of windows shows sets of twin lancet windows separated by a stone column, while the upper level windows comprise pairs of trefoil pointed lancets, separated by a stone mullion and topped with a quatrefoil window, all contained within a single equilateral pointed arch.
About the Mitchell Building:
The Mitchell Building was designed by South Australian architect Willliam McMinn in the Victorian Academic Gothic style. It was completed between 1879 and 1881, and officially opened in 1882. The Mitchell Building was the first building on the North Terrace campus of The University of Adelaide and originally housed all of the university disciplines. It was named the Mitchell Building in 1961 in honour of Sir William Mitchell, who was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1916-1942 and Chancellor from 1942-1948. Today it is used as an administrative hub. The Mitchell Building’s neo-gothic features include its steeply gabled roof, lancet windows, decorative stone tracery and the roof fleche/spire.
Dorey, Margaret
5 July 2011
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Close-up of the Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, arcade, arch, architecture, blind arcade, blind tracery, equilateral arch, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, lancet arch, lancet window, leadlight, mullion, neo-gothic, pointed arch, quatrefoil, rose window, SA, South Australia, The University of Adelaide, tracery, turret, university, university buildings, William McMinn (1844-1884), William Mitchell (1861-1962), window
A close-up of the upper level of the Mitchell Building at The University of Adelaide. The Mitchell Building was designed by South Australian architect Willliam McMinn in the Victorian Academic Gothic style and constructed between 1879 and 1881. In this photograph, a number of the building’s neo-gothic features are evident. These include: the upper level windows, which comprise pairs of trefoil pointed lancets separated by a stone mullion and topped with a quatrefoil window, all contained within a single equilateral pointed arch; the blind tracery, arcading and rose window on the adjacent wall; the lancet arcade forming a parapet along the roofline and the false machiolation used for decorative effect below; the gable roof; and the turret.
About the Mitchell Building:
The Mitchell Building officially opened in 1882. It was the first building on the North Terrace campus of The University of Adelaide and originally housed all of the university disciplines. It was named the Mitchell Building in 1961 in honour of Sir William Mitchell, who was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1916-1942 and Chancellor from 1942-1948. Today the Mitchell Building is used as an administrative hub.
Dorey, Margaret
5 July 2011
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Entrance Porch, Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, arcade, arch, architecture, blind tracery, entrance, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, hood moulding, jamb, lancet arch, mullion, neo-gothic, porch, quatrefoil, SA, South Australia, The University of Adelaide, tracery, university, university buildings, Victorian Academic Gothic style, William McMinn (1844-1884), William Mitchell (1861-1962)
An image of the entrance porch to the Mitchell Building at The University of Adelaide. Large lancet openings surrounded by decorative hood moulding lead from all three sides to entrance, which consists of a wooden door topped with a rose window and accompanied on either side by a slender lancet window. Extensive blind tracery can be seen around the lancet archways and along the roofline, where an arcade of lancet arches also forms a parapet.
About the Mitchell Building:
The Mitchell Building was designed by South Australian architect Willliam McMinn in the Victorian Academic Gothic style. It was completed between 1879 and 1881, and officially opened in 1882. The Mitchell Building was the first building on the North Terrace campus of The University of Adelaide and originally housed all of the university disciplines. It was named the Mitchell Building in 1961 in honour of Sir William Mitchell, who was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1916-1942 and Chancellor from 1942-1948. Today it is used as an administrative hub. The Mitchell Building’s other neo-gothic features include its steeply gabled roof, lancet windows, decorative stone tracery and the roof fleche/spire.
Dorey, Margaret
5 July 2011
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Detail of Stone Tracery: Entrance Porch, Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, architecture, blind tracery, carving, entrance, foliage pattern, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, hood moulding, lancet arch, neo-gothic, porch, quatrefoil, SA, South Australia, The University of Adelaide, tracery, trefoil, university, university buildings, William McMinn (1844-1884), William Mitchell (1861-1962)
A detail of the decorative stone tracery surrounding the lancet archways leading into the entrance porch at the Mitchell Building, The University of Adelaide. This is an example of blind tracery (because it is applied to the stone wall and no glass or openings are present), which consists of trefoil and quatrefoil shapes that each contain a carved foliage pattern.
About the Mitchell Building:
The Mitchell Building was designed by South Australian architect Willliam McMinn in the Victorian Academic Gothic style. It was completed between 1879 and 1881, and officially opened in 1882. The Mitchell Building was the first building on the North Terrace campus of The University of Adelaide and originally housed all of the university disciplines. It was named the Mitchell Building in 1961 in honour of Sir William Mitchell, who was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1916-1942 and Chancellor from 1942-1948. Today it is used as an administrative hub. The Mitchell Building’s neo-gothic features include its steeply gabled roof, lancet windows, decorative stone tracery and the roof fleche/spire.
Dorey, Margaret
5 July 2011
No Copyright
Digital Photograph; JPEG