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Wilmot Arms sign, Kempton, Tasmania

The Wilmot Arms Inn is a B&B in a former coaching inn built in 1844 in the small Tasmanian town of Kempton. The business uses the Wilmot coat of arms, or family crest, in their advertising. The family crest consists of a late medieval helmet with…

Tags: advertising, coat of arms, crest, eagle, family crest, helmet, heraldry, Kempton, shield, sign, Tas, Tasmania, website, Wilmot Arms.

The Winthrop Singers

The Winthrop Singers is a choir formed in 2007 following collaboration between the School of Music at The University of Western Australia and St George’s College. The choir are led by Dr Nicholas Bannan and regularly perform at St…

Tags: choir, Gregorian chant, Guillaume Machaut, Hildegarde of Bingen, Nicholas Bannan, performance, Perth, School of Music, St Georgeâ€™s College, The Winthrop Singers., University of Western Australia, WA, website, Western Australia

The Order of St Thomas of Acre

The Order of St Thomas of Acre was re-established in 2005 and is dedicated to both St Thomas of Acre and St Thomas of Canterbury. The original Hospitaller’s of St Thomas of Canterbury at Acre were founded by King Richard I (the Lionheart) of…

The Dragonâ€™s Realm re-enactment group and store, Burnie, Tas

The Dragon’s Realm are both a re-enactment group and a retail store based in the northern Tasmanian city of Burnie. The store opened in 2006 and is located in the CBD in a former church built in the Gothic Revival style with buttresses and…

Tasmanian Gothic: artwork by Elizabeth Barsham

Tasmanian Gothic is the website for Tasmanian artist Elizabeth Barsham (formerly E.M. Christensen). Her work is inspired by such things as medieval tapestries and the Renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel and Albrecht DÃ¼rer (according to the…

Tags: Albrecht DÃ¼rer, art, artwork, E.M. Christensen, Elizabeth Barsham, Gothic, painting, Pieter Bruegel, Renaissance, tapestry, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmanian Gothic, website

Minervaâ€™s Tower at Balingup Medieval Carnival 2012 film

This 11 minute film on YouTube shows has been pieced together from separate performances by Minerva’s Tower at the 2012 Balingup Medieval Carnivale. The event was held in the town of Balingup in the south-west of Western Australia on August…

Minervaâ€™s Tower

Minerva’s Tower is a Perth-based band who performs medieval and neo-medieval folk music, including some original compositions. The band consists of two multi-instrumentalists, Alana Bennett and Dylan Kerr. The photograph shows the band…

Tags: Alana Bennett, Balingup, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, Belinda Bennett, Dylan Kerr, folk music, Minervaâ€™s Tower, music, performance, Renaissance, WA, website, Western Australia.

Medieval FightClub shop

Medieval FightClub is an online store with a warehouse in the New South Wales town of Wyee. They sell ‘Historical replica products from Medieval and Ancient times’ including various weapons, clothing, drinking horns, accessories,…

Tags: Archery, Armour, axe, chain mail, cloak pin, clothing, combat, costume, Crusader, dagger, drinking horn, helmet, javelin, living history, Medieval FightClub, New South Wales, NSW, plate armour, pouch, re-enactment, replica, shield, spear, stave, store, sword, tent, viking, website, Wyee., Ye-Mail Subscription

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