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â€˜The Australian Jubilee Peerage: A Detailed Scheme for the Institution of Various Long-Needed Australian Orders of Nobilityâ€™, The Bulletin, 25 June 1887

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This full-page illustration by the Bulletinâ€™s American-born cartoonist Livingston Hopkins (aka â€˜Hopâ€™), pokes fun at some of Australiaâ€™s prominent political figures. The 25 June 1887 issue of the Bulletin reviewed Queen…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ Australian politics, Britain, heraldry, honours, Jubilee, knight, knighthood, Livingston York Hopkins (1846-1927), Melbourne, nobility, peerage, political figures, politics, Queen Victoria, social mobility, Vic, Victoria, White Knight of Kerry

"1189. The Crusaders 1915."

A drawing by Fred Leist depicting an Australian soldier of 1915 shaking hands with a Crusader of 1189, with the cross of St George as the backdrop. Whilst the Australian soldier is shirtless and wearing shorts, the Crusader knight wears chain-mail,…

Tags: 1189-1192, chainmail, chivalry, cross, Crusader, Crusades, knight, knighthood, knights, Saint George, St George, St Geroge's Cross, St. George, Third Crusade

"Camelot": The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

An image of a record found in a York secondhand store featuring the soundtrack to the popular 1967 film "Camelot." An example of the popularity, commerciality and timelessness of Arthurian legends, the film was a box office hit in the West. The film…

"Ned Kelly at Bay"

This print of a wood engraving of Ned Kelly in his final battle is based on a sketch 'drawn on the spot' by T. Carrington. The picture shows a Ned Kelly in his helmet firing his pistol. His plate body armour is hidden by an overcoat. The armour and…

Tags: Armour, Australia, Australian identity, crime, highway man, knight, knighthood, national identity, Ned Kelly, Vic, Victoria, wood engraving

"Should the Warrior of Today Wear Armor?"

An article in the New York Times on September 19, 1915, advocating the use of armor/armour and citing the example of Ned kelly. The article was written by Bashford Dean, Curator of Armor at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Professor Dean notes…

Tags: Armor, Armour, Bashford Dean, highway man, knight, knighthood, knights, Metropolitan Museum, Ned Kelly, New York, New York Times, warfare

"The Spirit of the Middle Ages in Macquarie Street"

This photograph in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1930 shows three sculptures of medieval knights. The seated knights are on the new B.M.A. (British Medical Association) Building in Macquarie Street, Sydney. They wear full body armour and helmets with…

Tags: chivalry, knight, knighthood, knights, Macquarie Street, medieval, sculpture, scuptures, statue, statues, Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald

‘As it is in the Days of Now’, The Bulletin, 12 March 1908

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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…

‘Melbourne Investiture: Honours Conferred with Sword’, The West Australian, 6 November 1937

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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…

Tags: Accolade, authority, ceremony, chivalry, dubbing, Governor-General, honours, investiture, Kingâ€™s Coronation Honours, knight, knighthood, letters patent, Lord Gowrie, pageantry, Parliament House, sword

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