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"Rumpelstiltskin" Pan Pow Productions stage performance at Monash University, 1974

A Photograph of Act 1, Scene 4 from a 1974 stage performance of "Rumpelstiltskin" at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, featuring Beverley Gardiner as Gretchen and Penelope Richards and Paul Kennedy as the two…

‘Eating the Leek’ (Henry V, Act V, Scene I), The Bulletin, 4 March 1893.

This political cartoon by ‘Hop’ enacts a scene from William Shakespeare’s historical play, Henry V. In the scene, Fluellen the Welshman angrily berates the unfortunate Pistol, a crony of Sir John Falstaff, and forces him to eat a…

Tags: cartoon, Fluellen, Henry V, John Bull, medieval costume, New South Wales, NSW politics, Pistol, political cartoon, politics, Shakespeare, Sir George Richard Dibbs (1834-1904), Sir Robert William Duff (1835-1895), theatre, William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), William Shakespeare (c.1564-1616)

A Knight and his Lady, University Commemoration Day ("Commem") through streets

Hyperlink to a photograph of two Sydney university students participating in the â€œCommem Dayâ€ street parade in 1937, taken by renowned Australian photographer Sam Hood. The two students in the photograph appear on horseback and in…

A Knight in The University of Sydney Commem Day Parade, 1937

Hyperlink to a photograph of a Sydney university student participating in the â€œCommem Dayâ€ street parade in 1937, taken by renowned Australian photographer Sam Hood. The student in the photograph appears on horseback and dressed as a…

A Page for Women and Perhaps Men: Medieval Angels

Included on this page from the Western Mail in 1935 is a photograph of three women, identified as the Petter sisters, dressed as â€˜medieval angelsâ€™ at a Halloween Ball in London.

Tags: angel, Angels, dress, fancy dress, fashion, medieval costume, medieval dress, medieval fashion, medieval style, Petter sisters, vogue

â€˜Peasantâ€™; or â€˜Pilgrimâ€™

This photograph was taken at the Gumeracha Medieval Fair, Adelaide Hills, South Australia by photographer Wendi Donaldson (May 2011). The image is entitled â€˜Peasant,â€™ but seeing as the man is wearing a scallop-shell as a badge in his…

Tags: Adelaide Hills, Camino de Santiago de Compostela, cockleshell, Gumeracha Medieval Fair, medieval costume, neo-medieval, peasant, pilgrim, pilgrimage, re-enactment, reneactment, SA, South Australia Wendi Donaldson

â€˜Soldier at a Medieval Faireâ€™

This is a â€˜frozenâ€™ combat image taken at the Blacktown Medieval Fayre by photographer Richard Taylor in 2011. It depicts a participant dressed in a Norman style helmet complete with a chainmail collar known as an avential or camal, and…

â€˜The old soldierâ€™ at the Blacktown Medieval Fayre

This is one of a series of pre-action photographs taken by photographer Richard Taylor at Nurragingy Reserve in 2011. It shows an â€˜old warriorâ€™ displaying steely determination to survive a potentially dangerous encounter. The subject of…

Tags: Armor, Armour, Arms, Blacktown Medieval Fayre, byrnie, chain mail, chainmail, coif, combat, fair, haubergeon, hauberk, helmet, medieval costume, New South Wales, Norman style helmet, NSW, Nurragingy Reserve, re-enactment, soldier, Sydney, war, warfare

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