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Ancient Arts Fellowship Educational Sessions, Canberra

Ancient Arts Fellowship, Inc. is a medieval re-enactment group based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the ‘Dark Ages’, or early medieval period, especially the 8th century through to the Norman invasion of…

Ancient Arts Fellowship, Beorg-wic

Ancient Arts Fellowship, Inc. is a medieval re-enactment group based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the ‘Dark Ages’, or early medieval period, especially the 8th century through to the Norman invasion of…

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Ancient Arts Fellowship, Canberra

Ancient Arts Fellowship, Inc. is a medieval re-enactment group based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the ‘Dark Ages’, or early medieval period, especially the 8th century through to the Norman invasion of…

Ancient Order of Foresters Hall, Digby, Victoria.

Link to photograph taken at the opening of the Ancient Order of Foresters Hall at Digby, Victoria in September 1873. The link also provides extracts from the Hamilton Spectator regarding the establishment of the Hall. About the Ancient Order of…

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Ancient Viking Ships

An article on page 46 of the Brisbane newspaper The Queenslander on May 26, 1932. The public interest piece reports on the decision of the Norwegian government to reconstruct the Viking-Age Gokstad ship from the pieces recovered during excavation. It…

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Ancilla Domini; or, Handmaid or â€˜maid servantâ€™ of the Lord

This work by Australian artist Rupert Bunny was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1996. It depicts the religious subject of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel descended from heaven to tell Mary that she would conceive the son of…

Tags: Adam, angel, Annunciation, art, colour, curtain, Eden, Eve, Gabriel, lilies, Mary, Pre-Raphaelite, religious art, Renaissance art, rose, Rupert Bunny (1864-1947), SA, South Australia, symbolism, vermillion, virgin

Anglican Church Dispute: Use of Vestments

Anglican Church Dispute_West Australian_27 July 1910_p7.pdf

In this article, a summary is provided of the Archbishop of Sydneyâ€™s response to a memorial regarding the controversial debate over the wearing of vestments by Anglican clergy. According to Dr Wright, the article reports, the use of vestments…

Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd, Hadspen, Tasmania

The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd is in the town of Hadspen, Tasmania. Archdeacon Thomas Reibey of Hadspen had the plans for the church drawn up by W.G. & E. Habershon of London and the foundation stone was laid in 1868. Reibey was largely…

Tags: Anglican, buttress, Church, Church of the Good Shepherd, England, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Hadspen, lancet window, Lutterworth, pointed arch, Tas, Tasmania., Thomas Reibey, W.G. & E. Habershon

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