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A Medieval Manor House
In this article from a regular children’s column in the Sunday Times called “The Girls and Boys Clubâ€, a standard and idealised description of medieval manor houses is provided. According to the author, a fifteenth-century manor…
Bell Turret, St John the Evangelist Anglican, Fremantle, Western Australia
A view of the bell turret at St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was added to the existing church structure, c.1906. In England, bell turrets were often added to parish churches that did not have adjoining bell…
Bell Turret, St John the Evangelist Anglican, Fremantle, WA
A view of the bell turret at St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was added to the existing church structure, c.1906. In England, bell turrets were often added to parish churches that did not have adjoining bell…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, film, 1925 - review
Victor Hugo’s novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, anglicised to ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ explores a number of themes: the role of religious fanaticism in medieval theology, passion and, for Hugo, old versus new Paris. France’s…
Geelong Trades Hall Front View ‘Labor Omnia Vincit’
‘Labor Omnia Vincit’ (work conquers everything) is a historically significant slogan associated with the American and English labour movements. It was also the motto of the Knights of Labour, a group started in the 1860s in America. The…
SMH Thurs 19 July 1945 Welcome Banquet in London Guildhall for Australian Sailors
At the end of World War II, Australian sailors of the vessel HMAS AUSTRALIA are depicted as heroic warriors (young and bronzed) who are privileged to march the medieval streets of Old London to dine and mingle with the Admiralty in the bombed London…
Rose Window, St John the Evangelist Anglican, Fremantle, Western Australia
A view of the rose window on the western façade of St John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fremantle, Western Australia. Rose windows were popular decorative features in Romanesque and especially Gothic church architecture by the thirteenth…
Chaucer’s Portrait Gallery
G.H. suggests that the English novel is indebted to Chaucer’s literary device of throwing together people from assorted social grades to interact. The writer notes that few people read Chaucer for pleasure but if they did master Middle English…