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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.

â€˜Lightâ€™ Verses

This poem is an example of the satirical verses published by The Bulletin to ridicule the perceived â€œopportunistic and self-servingâ€ collaborative association between former political opponents (aka â€˜rivalsâ€™), Sir Henry…

Tags: adversary, knight, lampoon, lance, Macquarie Lighthouse, NSW politics, Port Jackson, satire, Sir Henry Parkes, Sir John Robertson, Sydney Harbour, The Bulletin, verse

â€˜Lays of Contemporary Chivalryâ€™

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These light-hearted verses describe the endeavours of a motley band of â€˜gallantsâ€™ with dubious social origins, who jostle and vie for the hand of Lady Podophylline Musa Miggs, daughter of the Baron of Potts Point, in Sydney. These are…

Tags: chivalry, doggerel, knight, knighthood, lampoon, peerage, popular anti-medievalism, satire, social pretention

â€˜Inferno, canto XIII: The Forest of Suicidesâ€™ by Fiona Hall

This photographic artwork by Australian artist Fiona Hall belongs to a series titled ‘Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy’. It is held by The National Gallery of Australia and depicts a scene from canto XIII of Dante…

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€˜Heraldicâ€™ domestic pattern window, Front entrance, Longerenong homestead, Longerenong, Victoria

This â€˜heraldicâ€™ pattern transom hangs over the doorway at Longerenong homestead in Victoria. Central to the design is a golden Celtic harp on blue shield (c. 13th century) representing owner Samuel Wilsonâ€™s Irish roots. This is…

Tags: Celtic, Ferguson & Urie, floral grid pattern, flowers, harp, heraldry, John Lyon, Longerenong homestead, medieval design, Samuel Wilson, stained glass, Vic, Victoria, window

â€˜Gratuitous Pugnacityâ€™, The Bulletin, 3 March 1888.

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Cartoonist Phil May here encapsulates the main problems of a premature pitch by NSW for Australian Federation. The doughty knight (Sir Henry) is ready to do battle with ‘all and sundry,’ for he needs to pay off (or perhaps unload the…

Tags: Colonies, debt, federation, free trade, government, internal debts, knight, Knight Henry, NSW politics, Phil May (1864-1903), Sir Henry Parkes

â€˜Golfreise durchâ€™s Outbackâ€™ article

An article in the German edition of Golf Digest magazine about Thorngrove Manor Hotel in Stirling. As well as highlighting the features of the luxury boutique hotel the article provides information on nearby golf courses. The Kenneth Lehmann building…

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, castle, fantasy, Golf Digest magazine, Gothic, hotel, Kenneth Lehmann, recreation, SA, South Australia, Stirling, Thorngrove, Thorngrove Manor Hotel, tourism, towers, turrets, Victorian Gothic

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