Scottish National Pageant of Allegory, Myth and History

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Performances

Place: Saughton Park (Edinburgh) (Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Year: 1908

Indoors/outdoors: Unknown

Number of performances: 1

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Linked occasion

Scottish National Exhibition

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Summary

This was a fundraiser for the Scottish League of Pity, and was advertised in the Dundee Courier and the Scotsman newspapers. The pageant may have been processional in form, but it is not clear from the available sources.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Scottish National Pageant of Allegory, Myth and History’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/919/