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One-Man Tank, â€˜Medieval Knightâ€™

Argus 1926 Thurs 1 April One-Man Tank Medieval Knight.pdf

Royal Engineer, Maj. Martel, invented a one-man tank that replicates the medieval knight in armour, with the addition of â€˜caterpillar track legsâ€™ and a â€˜petrol engined heartâ€™. The contraption is fashioned from car parts…

Tags: agricultural equipment, knight, knights, Martel Tank, medieval knight, medieval warfare, modern warfare, new weaponry, one-man tanks, war, warfare, weapon, weaponry

King Working-Man

This illustration portrays the great fear of the establishment in the late nineteenth century in Australia, an organised workforce. Union organisation and affiliation and the strengthening of fraternities and friendly societies appeared to create a…

Tags: Eight Hour Day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, labour, labourer, organized labour, Peasants Revolt, Premier Gilles, union, unionism, unions, work, worker, working class

Female Servantâ€™s Revolt

This illustration is an early reference to the beginnings of the eight-hour movement. One of the first marches took place in Melbourne in 1856, when the Stonemasons working on the build of the University of Melbourne, marched to Parliament protesting…

Tags: Eight Hour Day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, labour, labourer, Melbourne, Melbourne 888, Peasants Revolt, revolution, women servants, work, worker, working class

Chaucer as Teaching Aid in the Colonies

The opinion piece,â€œCatallictics [mutatas dicere formas] An Introduction to New Speculations [In nova fert animus] takes it Latin from the first lines of Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses (In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; I tell now…

Tags: Chaucer, Chaucerian, Chaucerian source, child, children, childrenâ€™s education, classical education, education, juvenile, Ovid, Ovidâ€™s Metamorphoses, Prioressâ€™s Tale, tabula rasa

St Johnâ€™s Lutheran Church, Perth, Western Australia

St Johnâ€™s Lutheran Church in Perth, Western Australia. Built in 1936, St Johnâ€™s was the first Lutheran Church in Perth. It was designed by architect Richard Spanney and is an example of Inter-War Gothic architecture. The church is…

Henry Lawson Pilgrimage, Annual Event

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, is honoured by a pilgrimage that traces his journey from Grenfell NSW to Gulgong NSW (280 kms). PIlgrimage is a medieval concept…

Tags: Australian Nationalism Movement, Australian poetry, bush poet, Grenfell (New South Wales) to Gulgong (NSW), Grenfell Record, Henry Lawson, heritage tourism, horse-drawn vehicles, newspaper, pilgrimage, pilgrims, saints

Livery Buttons Leading Families of New South Wales

Livery and its insignia were integral to medieval culture; their bestowal and wearing marked allegiance and identification to particular lords, factions or beliefs. As late as the early fifteenth century, regular livery awards at Christmas or Easter…

Tags: clothing, clothing imports, crests, heraldry, James McEvoy, livery, Medieval Allegiance, New South Wales, NSW

Morris Dancers at the Perth Medieval Fayre

Morris dancers performing a version of the folk dance at the Perth Medieval Fayre in Western Australia. The style of the dance is derived from the English villages of the Cotswolds and is characterised by groups of six men dressed in white clothing…

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