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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
Dover’s staging of a historical folk-play in 1908 was a nationally important and spectacular example of an Edwardian town gripped by ‘pageantitis’. Directed by the original master himself, Louis Na...
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In 1921 there had been outcry when the government attempted to sell Runnymeade Meadow for development, the proposal only being averted when the civil engineer Urban Broughton bought the land. His w...
Time and the City: A Pageant Play
St Albans had staged three historical pageants, in 1907, 1948 and 1953. In 1968 an indoor ‘pageant play’ was staged, with three performances on the stage of the recently built City Hall, which coul...

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 Place

Names of locations of pageants; doesn't include specific locales such as town square

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1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Egham, Surrey, England
1 Dover, Kent, England

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 Pageant Type

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

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3 town
1 national

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Lally, Gwen

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Rhoades, James
1 Radice, Fulke
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Malory, Thomas
1 Lally, Gwen
1 Home, Gordon
1 Geddes, H.R.
1 Drinkwater, John

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 Composer

Includes names of composers at time of pageants, original composers, and those who did arrangements

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1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Tidnam, J. Edis
1 Taylor, H.J.
1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Gibbons, Orlando
1 Darewski, Hermann

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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 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
3 Langton, Stephen
3 Henry VIII
3 Fitzwalter, Robert
2 Mary I
2 Marshal, William
2 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
2 John
2 Charles V
2 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Wells, Hugh of
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warenne, William
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vescy [Vesci], Eustace de
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Tresilian, Sir Robert
1 Temple, Sir Richard, third baronet
1 Stigand
1 Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset
1 Seymour [née Percy], Elizabeth, duchess of Somerset
1 Scott [Scot], Thomas
1 Robinson, Luke
1 Richard II
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Pole, Michael de la, first earl of Suffolk
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Peter [Peters], Hugh
1 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Pagham, John of
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Mowbray, William de
1 Mortimer, Roger
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Monck [Monk], George, first duke of Albemarle
1 Mogg, Mary [Molly]
1 Mare, Thomas de la
1 Longespée [Lungespée], William
1 London, Henry of [Henry de Loundres]
1 Lacy, John de, third earl of Lincoln
1 Kéroualle, Louise Renée de Penancoët de, suo jure duchess of Portsmouth and suo jure duchess of Aubigny in the French nobility
1 John II
1 Joan [Joan of the Tower]
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jeune, Francis Henry, Baron St Helier
1 Hilary
1 Henry V
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
1 Gumble, Thomas
1 Grimston, Sir Harbottle, second baronet
1 Gray, Walter de
1 Grant, Anthony
1 Godolphin, Sidney, first earl of Godolphin
1 Giffard, Walter
1 Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex
1 Gay, John
1 Forz [Fortibus], William de, count of Aumale
1 Fordham, John
1 Eustace
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 David II
1 Cowper, Francis Thomas de Grey, seventh Earl Cowper
1 Coppock, James
1 Clarke, Sir William
1 Clarges, Sir Thomas
1 Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford
1 Clare, Gilbert de, fifth earl of Gloucester and fourth earl of Hertford
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Charles VI
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Bohun, Jocelin de
1 Bohun, Henry de, first earl of Hereford
1 Bell, Jacob
1 Beckett, Edmund [formerly Edmund Beckett Denison], first Baron Grimthorpe
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, eleventh earl of Warwick
1 Aubigny, William d' [William de Albini], third earl of Arundel
1 Arthur
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne

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