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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…

"Australian War Memorial: Largest Stone Building in the Southern Hemisphere."

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This article from The Canberra Times in 1941 provides an update on the building of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Construction had begun in 1937, and the Memorial was set to be the largest stone building in the southern hemisphere. A…

Tags: ACT, architecture, Australian Capital Territory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Cloisters, Court of Honour, gargoyles, Hall of Memory, loggia, medieval architecture, memorial, monument, sandstone, stone building, tower, war, war memorial

‘Because of her Father’s Blood’, The Bulletin, 25 June 1908

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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…

Tags: â€˜As it is in the Days of Now, â€™ â€˜The Old Squire, â€™ ancestry, bravery, courage, Dame Ruth, forebears, Henry Lawson (1867-1922), knight, loyalty, outlaws, poem, Sir William series, war

A Medieval Romance

In this review of Jeffery Farnol’s historical romance “The King Liveth”, the novel is recommended to readers who appreciate the “picturesque recreation of the England of those far off [Anglo-Saxon] days”. Set in the…

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€˜Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bangâ€™

This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth…

Tags: ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ballista, Carol Raabus, counterweight trebuchet, crossbow, Doug Pattison, Hobart, performance, re-creation, siege, siege engine, Tas, Tasmania, trebuchet, war, website.

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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