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Renaissance Polonaise, Government House, Perth

This poster advertises â€˜Renaissance Polonaiseâ€™, an evening performance of Renaissance and Baroque music by the Polish early music ensemble Floripari. Floripari play period instruments and often also wear period costume. The performance…

Tags: advertising, Baroque, early music, ensemble, festival, Festival of Polish Visual and Performing Arts, Floripari, Government House, instrument, music, Perth, Poland, PolArt, poster, re-creation, Renaissance, Renaissance Polonaise, WA, Western Australia.

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

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

â€˜The Scaly Monsterâ€™

The Scaly Monster of the House (3 May, 1884), p. 13.jpg

‘The Scaly Monster’ drawing shows an unruffled ‘Bloody Jack’ McElhone boarding a vessel embarking for England. This feisty Sydney alderman had a reputation for forthrightness and ‘fisticuffs,’ which was not always…

Tags: â€˜Bloody Jack, â€™ boat, Alderman, cartoon, democracy, E. Montague Scott (1835-1909), John McElhone (1833-1898), knight, NSW politics, political cartoon, politics, respectability, Sydney Municipal Council

â€˜The Talismanâ€™, Examiner, Tasmania

‘The Talisman’ is an article by Robert Power published in 1924 in the ‘Two Minute Talks’ section of the Launceston newspaper the Examiner. The article is about the importance of putting ones faith in God rather than…

Tags: Armour, Charlemagne, charms, Examiner, Excalibur, Hereward the Wake, horn, King Arthur, knights, Launceston, newspaper, Normans, Robert Power, Roland, Song of Roland, supernatural, sword, Tas, Tasmania., The Talisman

â€˜Medievalâ€™ Mental Health Service to be Modernised

This article by Angela Pownall appeared in the online version of The West Australian newspaper. It reports on State Government legislation aimed at modernising the Western Australian mental health system. The existing system is described as being…

Tags: Angela Pownall, Archaic, article, government, health, internet, legislation, mental health, newspaper, online, The West Australian, WA, Western Australia

The Flight of Jane Shore

This painting by Val Prinsep was gifted to the National Gallery of Victoria in 1934 by A L Prinsep. It depicts a woman, who the title identifies as Jane Shore, crouching under a bridge in an attempt to hide from a group of soldiers looking to arrest…

Tags: art, Edward IV (1442-1483), Elizabeth Shore (1445-1527), imprisonment, Jane Shore (1445-1527), Ludgate prison, mistress, Pre-Raphaelite, Richard III (1452-1485), royal mistress, Thomas Grey (c.1455-1501), Vic, Victoria, Wars of the Roses, William Hastings (c.1430-1483)

Souvenir Shield: Private C.E. Urry, 1 Battalion, AIF

REL/00793 Front and reverse Entry on Australian War Memorial website: Small aluminium shield. Engraved on the obverse is, '528 PRIVATE C E URRY 25TH APRIL GALLIPOLI HMS SCOURGE 5TH JUNE GERMAN OFFICERS TRENCH 6TH AUGUST LONE PINE EVACUATED 20TH…

Tags: aluminium, Anzac Cove, armourer, Badge, badges, C.E. Urry, coat-of arms, First World War, Gallipoli, heraldry, Lonepine, shield, Turkey, Western Front, World War, World War I

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