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Extraordinary Stories Exhibition, Perth

These photographs are of advertising for the Extraordinary Stories exhibition at the Perth branch of the Western Australian Museum. The signs feature a photograph of a queen piece from the twelfth century Isle of Lewis chess set found in modern-day…

Queen Guenever as a nun

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur. Upon…

Carnivale King and Queen, Balingup Medieval Carnivale

A photograph of the King and Queen of the Balingup Medieval Carnivale. The royal couple, accompanied by members of their court and guards, took part in the parade each day and then sat in state in the royal tent in the combat arena.

Tags: Balingup, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, carnival, fair, king, queen, recreation, royal court, Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup, South-West WA, WA, Western Australia

SIMS Medieval

In SIMS Medieval, the latest instalment of the virtual reality SIMS computer game series, players control a number of different heroes and characters ranging from kings and queens to knights, merchants, priests and blacksmiths. They send these…

Tags: bard, battle, battles, blacksmith, castle, characters, computer, computer game, EA Games, fantasy, game-play, gamers, graphics, heroes, king, kingdom, knight, life-simulation, medieval setting, medievalism, merchant, queen, quest, SIMS, simulation, skirmish, treaty, virtual world, war, weaponry, wizard, wizardry, wizards

"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…

The Illuminations of Melbourne - the General Post Office

Image of the Melbourne General Post Office at night. The building was illuminated to celebrate the arrival of Queen Victoria to Australia. The lights on the building read "God Save the Queen" and "Long May She Reign." It was a medieval custom to…

Tags: English sentimentality, General Post Office, God Save the Queen, illuminations, lights, Melbourne, queen, Queen Victoria, Royal family, Royal visit, Victoria

To Hold the Bridal Veil

In these pages, the latest fashion advice from London regarding bridal headgear is relayed. The article begins by informing readers that wealthy English brides were wearing diamond tiaras on their wedding days. However, it surmises, it was unlikely…

Tags: Bandeau, bridal fashion, coronet, fashion, hair, hairstyle, head-dress, medieval dress, medieval fashion, medieval head-dress, medieval queen, medieval style, medieval vogue, pearl, queen, Riche of Hay-Hill, tiara, vogue

Queen wears Coronation Gown

During her first royal visit in 1954, Queen Elizabeth II opened the sitting of Australiaâ€™s federal parliament at Parliament House on 15 February 1954. As this photograph from the Western Mail shows, she wore her coronation gown and the sash of…

Tags: Australian Parliament, coronation, Coronation gown, garter, heraldry, Order of the Garter, parliament, Parliament House, queen, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal visit, sash, St George cross, star

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