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‘Bards of the Backblocks: Knights of Chance’, The Bulletin, 26 May 1900.

Knights of Chance (26 May, 1900), p. 3.jpg

To describe everyday life in colonial Australia as entirely rural-based in 1900 would be misleading, for the country’s major urban centres, particularly Sydney and Melbourne, housed much of the population and fuelled its commercial vitality…

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The â€˜Australiaâ€™ window; or â€˜Oceaniaâ€™ in the Sydney Town Hall

One of two neo-romanesque with rounded heads and stylised borders designed by Frenchman Lucian Henry and manufactured by Goodlet & Smith for the Sydney Town Hall auditorium, at a time when national fervour was running high in the late nineteenth…

Irish National Foresters Float at the Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Sydney, ca. 1930

An image depicting members of the Irish National Foresters Friendly Society on board a float in a Saint Patrick's Day procession in Sydney, ca 1930. About the Society: The Irish National Foresters Organisation/Friendly Society is a mutual aid…

When I was King, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922) is one of Australia's most famous poets, and can be regarded as a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement.

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Our Mistress and our Queen, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, protests against what he sees as the forced allegiance to the monarchy and the bloodshed of war in the name of the monarch.

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Queen Hilda of Virland, poem by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem in 1910 (MS). The meaning is unclear but Lawson writes of a mythical kingdom of Virland. It could be an allegory of…

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"The Old Squire Sir William rode to Virland," Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement.

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The King I, Poem by Henry Lawson

It is likely Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem about the death of King Edward VII 1901 - 1910, who reigned for 10 years. Lawson portrays the King as a…

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