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Launceston Aldermen

While most local government councils in Australia are presided over by a mayor and councillors, Launceston City Council in Tasmania has a mayor and aldermen. This has been the case since the first election of alderman to the council in 1853, which…

Tags: Aldermen, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf, Byrhtnoth, council, councillors, county, ealdorman, government, Launceston, Lindisfarne Gospels, local government, Old English, shire, Tas, Tasmania, website.

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.

Maypole dancing around 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…

Tags: ACT, Australian Capital Territory, dance, festival, folk, folk dance, maypole, New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Northern Territory, NSW, NT, Qld, Queensland, SA, South Australia, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, WA, Wales, Western Australia

Viking Brand label

This pear case label for Viking Brand Fancy Grade Pears is approximately A4-size. It probably dates from 1938 or 1939 (see link below). Viking Brand were exported by W.H. Ikin & Son in Hobart and the produce was from Tasmania. The advert depicts…

Tags: Ad, Advert, advertisement, dragon ship, Gokstad ship, Hobart, label, shield, ship, Tas, Tasmania, viking, Viking Brand, Viking Brand Fancy Grade Pears., W.H. Ikin & Son

The Dragonâ€™s Realm re-enactment group and store, Burnie, Tas

The Dragon’s Realm are both a re-enactment group and a retail store based in the northern Tasmanian city of Burnie. The store opened in 2006 and is located in the CBD in a former church built in the Gothic Revival style with buttresses and…

â€˜Tasmaniaâ€™s Historic Towersâ€™.

The 1949 article ‘Tasmania’s Historic Towers’ by M.S.R. Sharland appeared in the Hobart, Tasmania, based newspaper The Mercury. The article discusses a number of stand-alone towers in Tasmania, including two medieval-styled…

Tags: â€˜Tasmaniaâ€™s Historic Towersâ€™, article, Evandale Water Tower, folly, Hobart, M.S.R. Sharland, newspaper, Panshanger Pigeon Tower, Tas, Tasmania, The Mercury, tower.

â€˜Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bangâ€™

This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…

Tags: ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ballista, Carol Raabus, counterweight trebuchet, crossbow, Doug Pattison, Hobart, performance, re-creation, siege, siege engine, Tas, Tasmania, trebuchet, war, website.

Pugin Foundation

The Pugin Foundation is a not for profit organisation based in Victoria. Their website is devoted to the works of English architect August Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). The website has a particular focus on the Pugin-designed churches built in…

Tags: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic, churches, essays, Gothic, Gothic Revival, New South Wales, NSW, Pugin Foundation, Qld, Queensland, Tas, Tasmania, Vic, Victoria, website.

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