| Description |
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Recollecting the Child -- 2.History, Marriage and the Afterlife -- 3.To the East -- 4.Gone West -- 5.Opening the Guarded Door -- 6.Explorations in the Craft -- 7.Kingdom of the Wise -- 8.An Ark for England -- 9.A Walk in the Folk Park -- 10.Anglican Outcasts and Orthodox Catholicism -- 11.Wartime Trials -- 12.Cyprus and Beyond |
| Summary |
J.S.M. (John) Ward was a spiritualist, mystic, historian and lifelong collector of antiquities. His Abbey Folk Park , begun at New Barnet, England, in 1934, was an innovative history museum where his interest in esoteric heritage, world cultures and the occult attracted much attention, but after a sensational court case in 1945 he and his followers, the Confraternity of the Kingdom of Christ, took his collection of artefacts into self-imposed exile in Cyprus. After his death, both the community and the artefact collection moved eventually to Caboolture, where a permanent museum - the Abbey Museum of Art and Architecture - was built to house them, opened in 1986. A new Abbey church was built on the Caboolture site and consecrated in 1967, and a small independent primary school, St Michaels College, was established to carry on the educational work of John Ward's Confraternity. This site now hosts Australia's largest annual medieval re-enactment tournament and festival |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and index |
| Subject |
Ward, J. S. M. (John Sebastian Marlow), 1885-1949.
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Abbey Museum (Caboolture, Qld.)
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St Michael's College (Caboolture, Qld.)
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Confraternity of the Kingdom of Christ
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Spiritualists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Freemasonry.
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Spiritualism.
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Spiritualists -- England -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2011040266 |
| ISBN |
9781845194925 hardback |
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1845194926 hardback |
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9781845194932 paperback |
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1845194934 paperback |
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