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'Close Combat'

This is one of several â€˜battleâ€™ images from the NEMAS Easter Gathering in Armidale, NSW, in 2008. A number of medieval re-creation enthusiasts are engaged in close combat. They are armed with swords and what look to be mostly kite…

‘Melbourne Investiture: Honours Conferred with Sword’, The West Australian, 6 November 1937

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This article from The West Australian in 1937 reports on a number of new knighthoods awarded as part of the King’s Coronation Honours. For the first time, the article informs readers, the recipients were ‘dubbed’ by the…

Tags: Accolade, authority, ceremony, chivalry, dubbing, Governor-General, honours, investiture, Kingâ€™s Coronation Honours, knight, knighthood, letters patent, Lord Gowrie, pageantry, Parliament House, sword

‘The Old Squire’, The Bulletin, 28 May 1908

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The Bulletin, which was resolutely “anti-imperialist” in its outlook, published a range of verses, ballads and other “poems in which the Middle Ages were represented as despotic and barbaric” (Louise D’Arcens, Old Songs…

Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table Children's Cartoon series

Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table was an animated Australian cartoon series written by Melbourne playwright Alex Buzo with Rod Hull, Lyle Martin, John Palmer and M. Robinson. It was produced between 1966 and 1968. Based on Arthurian…

Tags: Animation, Armour, Arthur, Arthurian legend, Black Knight, cartoon, childrenâ€™s series, chivalry, damsel in distress, dragon, Excalibur, Guinevere, jousting, knight, Lancelot, maiden, Merlin, Morgan Le Fay, rescue, round table, song, sword, television, tv

A Viking's Sword

A highly romanticised article on page 46 of the Brisbane newspaper The Queenslander on 17 May, 1934. The article reports on a male Viking warrior grave uncovered in Sweden. Among the various grave-goods found was a sword made in England. This leads…

Tags: battle, battles, Brisbane, burial, England, Norseman, Qld, Queensland, raiding, sacrifice, ship, ships, Sweden, sword, swords, The Queenslander, viking, war, warfare, weapon, weaponry, weapons

â€˜Gallantry is backâ€™ St George beer commercial

This advertisement is for the Launceston, Tasmania, brewing company James Boag’s ‘St George’ beer. The slogan of the commercial is ‘Gallantry is back’, which plays on one of the attributes associated with St George, that…

Tags: â€˜gallantry is backâ€™, advertisement, alcohol, Beer, Boagâ€™s Brewery, chivalry, commercial, Crusade, dragon, gallantry, James Boagâ€™s, Launceston, logo, St George, sword, Tas, Tasmania.

â€˜Game of Thronesâ€™ inspired chalk board

This chalk board drawing advertises The Burger Bistro in Shafto Lane in central Perth. The drawing is based on posters and the dvd cover for Season One of the television series â€˜Game of Thronesâ€™, based on the fantasy book series A Song…

Tags: advertising, chalk board, chalk drawing, drawing, fantasy, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Perth, sign, sword, television, The Burger Bistro, throne, tv, WA, warrior, Western Australia.

â€˜Living by the swordâ€™

The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of…

Tags: â€˜Living by the swordâ€™, Adult education, education, Elizabethan, George Silver, Hobart, Leatherwood Online, performance, rapier, re-creation, Stephen Hand, Stocatta School of Defence, sword, swordsman, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmaniaâ€™s Journal of Discovery, Vincentio Saviolo, website.

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