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‘Melbourne Investiture: Honours Conferred with Sword’, The West Australian, 6 November 1937
This article from The West Australian in 1937 reports on a number of new knighthoods awarded as part of the King’s Coronation Honours. For the first time, the article informs readers, the recipients were ‘dubbed’ by the…
Dressed for Battle at the SCA College Challenge Tournament, 2010
Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) dressed in armour in preperation for the SCA 'College Challenge' tournament. In Perth, Western Australia, there are only two chapters of the SCA which are based in colleges (St. Basil (UWA) or St.…
Preparing for Battle at the SCA College Challenge Tournament, 2010
Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) clad in armour in preperation for the SCA 'College Challenge' tournament. In Perth, Western Australia, there are only two chapters of the SCA which are based in colleges (St. Basil (UWA) or St.…
Combat Demonstration, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012
A photograph of a medieval-style combat demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012.
Knight Statue at Kryal Castle
An image of an English knight statue at Kryal Castle in Ballarat.
About Kryal Castle:
Kryal Castle is a tourist attraction located 8km from Ballarat in Victoria. Described as ‘Australia’s unique medieval castle’, Kryal Castle…
About Kryal Castle:
Kryal Castle is a tourist attraction located 8km from Ballarat in Victoria. Described as ‘Australia’s unique medieval castle’, Kryal Castle…
Fighting Demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012
A photograph of a medieval-style combat demonstration at the Balingup Medieval Carnivale, 2012.
‘The Old Squire’, The Bulletin, 28 May 1908
The Bulletin, which was resolutely “anti-imperialist” in its outlook, published a range of verses, ballads and other “poems in which the Middle Ages were represented as despotic and barbaric” (Louise D’Arcens, Old Songs…
‘As it is in the Days of Now’, The Bulletin, 12 March 1908
This poem, which is best described as “an anti-nostalgic demystification of chivalric heroism” (Louise D’Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840-1910, Turnhout, Brepols, 2011, p.143), draws…