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â€˜Alfred Was Great Kingâ€™

‘Alfred Was Great King’ is an anonymous article that appeared in the Charters Towers, Queensland, newspaper The Northern Miner in 1954. The article is about the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon/English king Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the Great.…

Tags: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Charters Towers, Danes, education, England, King Alfred, law, literature, navy, Old English Chronicle, Qld, Queensland, The Northern Miner, vikings, Wessex.

Alfred the Great

An article on page 5 of the regional Victorian newspaper The Broadford Courier and Reedy Creek Times on June 20, 1902. The anonymous article is about the will of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex in southern England. In…

Tags: Alfred of Wessex, Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon, Broadford, England, entail, law, primogeniture, The Broadford Courier and Reedy Creek Times, Vic, Victoria, Wessex, wills

Ancient Arts Fellowship Educational Sessions, Canberra

Ancient Arts Fellowship, Inc. is a medieval re-enactment group based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the ‘Dark Ages’, or early medieval period, especially the 8th century through to the Norman invasion of…

Bigoted Bedrock of Our Law

Amidst media fervour over the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (Princess Catherine), Geoffrey Robertson raises the Australian republican question in this opinion piece. Beginning with reference to Thomas Paineâ€™s denunciation…

Commoners Invoked Magna Carta

In this article rebutting criticisms levelled at the Australian Government for its decision to purchase an inspeximus copy (1297) of Magna Carta in 1952, the author begins by reminding readers that the important medieval document would be placed on…

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society, New South Wales

Danelaw Medieval Fighting Society are a New South Wales re-enactment group who own The Danelaw, a 120 acre property in a pine forest between Sydney and Canberra that is used by re-enactment groups. The property includes a fort, axe- and…

Distinctions

In this article from the Kalgoorlie Western Argus, an opening statement about the strength and integrity of the County Court bench in 1900 is contrasted with comments about the incompetence of former members of the judiciary. Four judges are…

Extracts from the Melbourne Newspaper, The Argus

A series of extracts from The Argus ranging from 1878 to 1880. They tell of the Kelly Gang's exploits and their encounters with colonial Victorian law enforcement. A few of the extracts towards the end of the list include descriptions of the…

Tags: Armour, Australian landscape, bush, bushranger, bushrangers, crime, criminal, Edward Kelly, Kelly Gang, knight, knights, landscape, law, legal, legend, legends, media, Melbourne, myth, mythology, Ned Kelly, police, stealing, theft

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