Useful Links

On this page you can find links to other online material about pageants. If you would like your website to feature, please email historicalpageants@kcl.ac.uk 


The Shakespeare Blog - 1 - Shakespeare and the Warwick Pageant

The Shakespeare Blog - 2 - From Warwick Pageant to Theatre of War: the Boy Shakespeare

The Library Time Machine - Blogs on the Chelsea Pageant of 1908 

The Axbridge Pageant - A dedicated website for the Axbridge Pageant (held every ten years)

The Butleigh Revel - A compendious analysis and archive of the 1906 Butleigh Revel

Magna Carta 800 - Information about the Bury St. Edmund's pageants from our project partner

The Dover Pageant - The official website of the Dover Pageant Society

Dornoch History Links - An image of the Dornoch Pageant 1928 handbook

YouTube - A nice video of the Banff Pageant 1972 

Live, Love and Liberty - A Burns Pageant in Dumfries 

Youtube - A video of the Arbroath Pageant 1947 

Future Museum - Image of the Ayrshire Pageant 1934 handbook 

Flickr - Programme images from the Royal Burgh of Irvine Pageant in 1972

About Orkney - Some detail and pictures of the Orkney Cathedral Pageant of 1937

YouRepeat - Great footage of the Newcraighall Pageant Show in 1990

YouTube - Footage of the Hawick Border Historical Pageant 1930

Scottish Screen Archive - Footage of the Scottish National pageant of Allegory, Myth and History 1908 (Edinburgh)

YouTube - The Prince of Wales receives a thunderous welcome at the Leicester Pageant of 1932

BBC - An interesting article on the Mormon British Pageant

100 Objects - Article on the Historical Pageant of Bradford in 1931

Sherborne Pageant 1905 - A Flickr collection of beautiful images from the 1905 Sherborne Pageant Album

The Dover Historian - Article on the Dover pageant 1908 and later events