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Hurdy Gurdy demonstration
This photograph shows Alana Bennett playing a six stringed Phoenix Standard hurdy gurdy made by Helmut Gotschy in Germany (www.gotschy.com). The hurdy gurdy is a stringed instrument played by using a crank-turned wheel. It developed from fiddles and…
‘Because of her Father’s Blood’, The Bulletin, 25 June 1908
Henry Lawson produced several interrelated medieval poems c. 1908 which The Bulletin published. ‘Because of her Father’s Blood’ is the third poem of the Sir William series. While the knight is away crusading his aunt, Dame Ruth, is…
‘Parkes and the Templars’, The Bulletin, 3 September 1887
This poem has links with medievalism through its reference to ‘the Templars’. However, the Templars to whom it refers are not the famous medieval order of crusading knights but rather the crusading nineteenth-century temperance society,…
‘The Rule of the Many’, The Bulletin, 15 November 1890.
This poem provides a vigorous denunciation of “the English caste system†and “celebrates the decay of feudalism,†at least in the Australian rural locale (Louise D'Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in…