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Korffs Haven Medieval Guild

Korffs Haven Medieval Guild are a re-enactment group based in Coffs Harbour, or Korffs Haven, in New South Wales. The group concentrate on the period 1066-1166 and such peoples as Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Normans, Crusaders, Highlanders (of Scotland), and…

Tags: Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Archery, chain mail, Coffs Harbour, combat, cooking, costume, craft, Crusader, Crusades, dyeing, embroidery, feast, felting, food, games, helmet, Highlanders, Korffs Haven Medieval Guild, leatherwork, living history, New South Wales, Norman, NSW, performance, re-enactment, sewing, shield, slingshot, spear, stave, sword, viking, website, woodwork.

Knights Order of Lion Rampant

Knights Order of Lion Rampant is a living history group based in the Brisbane suburb of Lutwyche. The group were founded in 1991 and focus on the culture of chivalry, especially that surrounding tournaments, that existed in western and central Europe…

Knightqueste Myspace Profile

A hyperlink to the Myspace music profile for Australian metal band, Knightqueste. Based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Knightqueste have utilised elements of a typically 'masculinised' medieval past. In particular, there is a strong focus on…

The "India" Small Pox Scare

India Small Pox Scare_West Australian Sunday Times_11 March 1900_p2.pdf

In this letter to the editor of the West Australian Sunday Times in March 1900, the correspondent â€œB. Knightedâ€ complains about quarantine practices that required doctors who boarded ships docked at Albany to quarantine patients suffering…

Tags: Albany, disease, doctor, medieval medical practices, medieval regulations, quarantine, S.S. India, ship, small pox, smallpox

Commoners Invoked Magna Carta

Commoners invoked Magna Carta_The West Australian_13 September 1952_ps.pdf

In this article rebutting criticisms levelled at the Australian Government for its decision to purchase an inspeximus copy (1297) of Magna Carta in 1952, the author begins by reminding readers that the important medieval document would be placed on…

St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, ca. 1895

A photograph of St Andrewâ€™s Cathedral in Sydney dating from c.1895. St Andrewâ€™s functions as the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and is the oldest cathedral in Australia. Construction of the cathedral was completed in 1868,…

The Last Viking teaching blog

A blog for the childrenâ€™s picture book â€˜The Last Vikingâ€™ by Australian authors Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (illustrator) published by the Western Australian publisher Fremantle Press. The story is about a boy who connects…

The Last Viking

The childrenâ€™s picture book â€˜The Last Vikingâ€™ by Australian authors Norman Jorgensen and James Foley (illustrator) published by the Western Australian publisher Fremantle Press. The story is about a boy who connects with his inner…

Tags: child, children, Childrenâ€™s literature, fiction, Fremantle Press, illustration, James Foley, juvenile, literature, Norman Jorgensen, picture book, viking, WA, Western Australia, young adult

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