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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Scarborough Historical Pageant and Play
‘The verdict upon Scarborough’s Historical Pageant will be that financially it might have been a greater success; in every other respect it could not have been.’[1] So the Scarborough Mercury repor...
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 ...

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Historical Figure: Henry Of Lancaster, Third Earl Of Lancaster And Third Earl Of Leicester
Historical Figure: Despenser, Hugh, The Younger, First Lord Despenser

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1 Scarborough, Yorkshire, North Riding, England
1 Pickering, Yorkshire, North Riding, England

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

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2 town

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Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Hudson, Gilbert

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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2 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Whitehead, James D.
1 Whitbread, J.W.
1 Wells, M.E.U.
1 Waring, George
1 Tetley, A.S.
1 Rowntree, Joshua
1 Rhodes, Kathryn
1 Radcliffe, Miss
1 Manners, Mary E.
1 Loy, Eva E.
1 Kitching, Mrs R.
1 Jones, David E.
1 Goodyear, R.A.H.
1 Goldsbrough, Albert
1 Godrey, Violet M.
1 Cooper, Wilhelmina
1 Cooper, A.N.
1 Coleman, Mrs A.M.
1 Bevan, D.W.

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

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1 Stewart, C. Hylton
1 Savile, Jeremiah
1 Ravenscroft, Thomas
1 Keeton, A.C.
1 Jones, David E.
1 German, Edward
1 Byrd, William

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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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2 Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester
2 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
2 Despenser, Hugh, the elder, earl of Winchester
1 Wittie [Witty], Robert
1 William le Gros, count of Aumale and earl of York
1 Tostig, earl of Northumbria
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Stafford, Thomas
1 St Christopher
1 St Catherine of Alexandria
1 Scardeburgh [Scardeburg], Sir Robert
1 Richard III lord of Ireland
1 Richard II
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Leland, John
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola] governor of Britain
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 John
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Henry of Lancaster [Henry of Grosmont], first duke of Lancaster
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Hengham, Ralph
1 Harald Hardrada [Haraldr inn Harðráði, Haraldr Sigurðarson]
1 Gerard
1 George [St George]
1 Gaveston, Piers, earl of Cornwall
1 Fox, George Religious Society of Friends
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund]
1 Clare, Margaret de, countess of Gloucester
1 Clare, Gilbert de, eighth earl of Gloucester and seventh earl of Hertford
1 Cholmley, Sir Hugh, first baronet army officer and autobiographer
1 Cedd [St Cedd]
1 Burnell, Robert and bishop of Bath and Wells
1 Bohun, Humphrey Essex
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Baldock, Robert
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]

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