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Float for the Juvenile Section of the Ancient Order of Foresters

Image depicting a children's float for the Ancient Order of Foresters at a parade in NSW. About the Ancient Order of Foresters: The Ancient Order of Foresters originated in England in the mid-eighteenth century, with the first recorded Foresters…

Entrance to St. Patrick's School, York, Western Australia

An image of St. Patrick's Convent School located on South Street in York, a town ninety minutes south east of Perth in Western Australia.

The school was built in 1873 by Father Patrick Gibney for the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters of Mercy taught…

Children's Literature Unit

Undergraduate English Literature unit ‘Children’s Literature’ offered at the Fremantle campus of The University of Notre Dame (Australia). The unit features a number of texts that have aspects of medievalism, including those by…

Tags: C.S. Lewis, child, children, fiction, Fremantle, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, J.M. Barrie, juvenile, literature, Narnia, Notre Dame University, Peter Pan, WA, Western Australia

Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies

The opinion piece,â€œCatallictics [mutatas dicere formas] An Introduction to New Speculations [In nova fert animus] takes it Latin from the first lines of Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses (In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; I tell now…

Tags: Chaucer, Chaucerian, Chaucerian source, child, children, childrenâ€™s education, classical education, education, juvenile, Ovid, Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses, Prioressâ€™s Tale, tabula rasa

Catholic Education Centre, West Leederville: Front Entrance

An image of the front entrance of the Catholic Education Centre on Ruislip Street in West Leederville, an inner-city suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The buildings that make up the Catholic Education Centre were once known as the Home Of The Good…

Tags: Bishop, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, delinquency, delinquents, education, girls, industrial home, juvenile, juvenile delinquents, juveniles, Perth, Reverend M. Gibney, Ruislip Street, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, WA, West Leederville, Western Australia

Catholic Education Centre, West Leederville

An image of the Catholic Education Centre on Ruislip Street in West Leederville, an inner-city suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The buildings that make up the Catholic Education Centre were once known as the Home Of The Good Shepherd and were run…

'The Last Viking' Display

A digital photograph of popular Viking items in a display case at the State Library of Western Australia. The display advertises a book signing session by Norman Jorgensen for his 2011 childrenâ€™s book The Last Viking, illustrated by James…

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