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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Kingston Church Pageant
The author of the Kingston Pageant, W.E. St Lawrence Finny, went even further than the great Pageant Master, Louis Napoleon Parker, who famously avoided the Civil War so as not to offend political ...
The Pickering Pageant (or Historical Play)
Pageants were very popular in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as in other parts of the country, before the First World War. Thirsk staged a ‘historical play’ in 1907; York in 1909; and Scarborough ...
The Bury St Edmunds Pageant
The Bury St Edmunds Pageant of 1907 was a major event, successful both in financial outcome and the vagaries of public opinion. Staged in July, it was an archetypal expression of Edwardian pageantr...

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 Place

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1 Pickering, Yorkshire, North Riding, England
1 Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England
1 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

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Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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2 town
1 london
1 church

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 Pageant Master

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1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Finny, W.E. St Lawrence

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 Author

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1 Whitehead, James D.
1 Wells, M.E.U.
1 Waring, George
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Ogilvie, G. Stuart
1 Manners, Mary E.
1 Loy, Eva E.
1 Kitching, Mrs R.
1 Jones, David E.
1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Goldsbrough, Albert
1 Finny, W.E. St Lawrence
1 Cooper, Wilhelmina

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2 German, Edward
1 Wagner, Richard
1 Shann, C.J.H.
1 Rhoades, James
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Morley, Felix W.
1 Jones, David E.
1 Huntley, G.F.
1 Ganz, C.J.W.
1 Dussek, Ronald
1 Clark, Owen. A.
1 Barker, Horace
1 Alderson, Percy

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 Historical Figure

Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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3 John
3 Henry I
2 Isabella [Isabella of France]
2 Henry II
2 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Ívarr [Ívarr inn Beinlausi, Ingwaer, Imhar]
1 Æthelwulf
1 Ælfgifu [Ælfgifu of Northampton]
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Wingfield, Sir Anthony
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Stafford, Humphrey, first duke of Buckingham
1 St Christopher
1 St Catherine of Alexandria
1 Samson
1 Richard of York, third duke of York
1 Richard II
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Montagu, Thomas [Thomas de Montacute], fourth earl of Salisbury
1 Matilda [Matilda of Flanders]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Mary
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Mandeville, Geoffrey de, first earl of Essex
1 Lydgate, John
1 Leland, John
1 Kitson, Sir Thomas
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester
1 Henry of Lancaster [Henry of Grosmont], first duke of Lancaster
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VI
1 Giffard, William
1 Gerard
1 George [St George]
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Elizabeth I
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince] prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Ecgberht [Egbert]
1 Eadwig [Edwy]
1 Dunstan
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Despenser, Hugh, the elder, earl of Winchester
1 Curteys, William
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund]
1 Cedd [St Cedd]
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Brakelond, Jocelin of
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Bigod, Roger
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England]
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Baldwin
1 Baldock, Robert
1 Adela, countess of Blois

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