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25.01.2022 come and hear us play medieval music and say hi to Madeleine, Rob and Rob at Timeline Festival this Saturday at Kryal Castle. We'll be playing our new vieles along with hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, gemshorns and drums. https://www.facebook.com/Timelinefestival/

25.01.2022 Georgina and Paul Micheal got to share Roman history with students at Melbourne University last Friday. An event on the south lawn organised by Melb Uni in conjunction with the Ancient Roman Re-enactors Victoria ARRV, a living history group that portrays Roman life. Georgina got to display her wigs and cosmetics again and Paul Michael put on his Roman armour to join the army.

23.01.2022 For the Canberra Roman exhibition we sourced some great items from an Australian company that provides excellent reproductions of historical items like oil lamps, papyrus documents, ceramic shards for mock digs etc. Worth a look as they specialise in providing items to aid with education. http://www.historicconnections.com/

21.01.2022 recent visit to Wheelers Hill Secondary College

21.01.2022 MEDIEVAL DAY || Flashback Friday, all the way back to Year 8 Medieval day! A wonderful annual event for our humanities students, as they participated in a vast ...array of activities. Thank you History Up Close! #BeTheBestThatYouCanBe #WHSC #MedievalDay #WHSCHumanities #FlashbackFriday @ Wheelers Hill Secondary College

20.01.2022 A very good friend gave me some reproduction WW1 Austro-Hungarian playing cards.

20.01.2022 Rob and Rob will be travelling up to St Ives Medieval Faire to perform medieval music as Wyndreamas this weekend (22-23 September). If you are in or near Sydney don't miss this chance to see the best medieval fair in Australia. Event website is here www.stivesmedievalfaire.com.au facebook for the faire https://www.facebook.com/events/203743093777310/

19.01.2022 Robert and Joe buffing hundreds of student finger prints away. Nice and shiny now :) 14thC harness done (Thank you Joe!), now the Greek and Roman armour.

18.01.2022 thoroughly enjoyable time playing music at St Ives Medieval Faire photo by Georgina Brooks

18.01.2022 managed to get everyone to stand still long enough to get a group photo of some very talented people who worked at St Joseph's College, Ferntree Gully today.

18.01.2022 Georgina doing more Roman stuff for Timeline at Kryal Castle last weekend. The weather was challenging and she had to work out of a soldiers tent but that didn't stop interested public engaging with Georgina's display. Georgina also had her first two human guinea pigs to try out some of Janet Stephens methods of Roman hairdressing of stitching the hair. Links to Janet Stephens hair tutorials below if you are interested in recreating these styles for yourself. The Tower 2nd C AD https://youtu.be/iZFY9Acxq7M Then she used a combination of two styles to create a style for young lass with fair hair who had shoulder length hair. Front of the head from https://youtu.be/M_HPjg-f8iQ Back of the head similar to this https://youtu.be/Vs9fLwm-9-k

17.01.2022 Georgina was lucky to join the Ancient Roman Re-enactors of Victoria and members from interstate Roman living history groups, for a special display put on for the National Museum of Australia as part of their "Rome, City and Empire" exhibition. Despite the extreme temperatures and flash storm on the Saturday night, the living history display was a success. For the Canberra event, Georgina created a simulated Pompeii room with hand painted fresco design walls. Recreated roman hair styles based on research by hairdresser Janet Stephens and had a Roman cosmetic display. While the roman soldiers slept in reproduction roman tents, Georgina got a taste of glamping, Pompeii style.

16.01.2022 a few photos of Rosalie from St Ives Medieval Faire. If you didn't get to the faire you can see some of Rosalie's work at Rosalie's Medieval Woman

14.01.2022 promo video by Heart Beat, find them at https://beatingheart.video/

12.01.2022 Great day with students at Aitken College. Always a great visit.

12.01.2022 working on a video about who we are and what we do with Underground Media & Panopticon Collective looking forward to the end result

07.01.2022 Georgina Gibson's attempt at a Roman hair piece. A braided wreath bun. Simply place over existing bun and pin in place with Roman replica hair sticks. Next project will be an even larger one with an additional curly Flavian fringe!

07.01.2022 for students please check out the videos on History Skills Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/cha/UChxJrXFKqMqXWpZpxZCOWFg/videos thanks to Matt from Medieval Matt - Knight for Hire for sharing this

07.01.2022 Before chewing gum gave you basketball cards or footy cards.... WW1 generals had their own cards in cigarette packets.

05.01.2022 Bentleigh Secondary College year 8 students were lucky enough to have a visit from History Up Close who transported them back to the Medieval days. Channelling ...their inner gladiator students fought for glory, worked together to form a human shield and even crowned a king . #whenlearningisfunandfunislearning See more

05.01.2022 Rob & Rob having fun playing with Praxis at ABBEY MEDIEVAL FESTIVAL in Caboolture. Photo credit Darkmoon Studios Big road trip but well worth it.

03.01.2022 a few more from St Ives Medieval Faire