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The Grand Empire Pageant 1909
The Grand Empire Pageant of 1909 programme was one of several imperial-themed pageants held before 1914, designed to instil patriotism and military values among participants and spectators (see Bat... -
Coronation Pageant
Press coverage for this pageant has not been consulted; but it seems likely that it was an event that only attracted attention in the immediate locality. Given the number of celebrations, including... -
Staffordshire Women’s Institute Pageant
Women’s Institute pageants were highly popular during the 1920s and early 1930s, and county pageants were also greatly successful: The following pageants were held: Norfolk (1926)Oxfordshire (1926)... -
St Catherine’s School Centenary Pageant: A Vivid Tapestry of 2000 Years of Women in History
St Catherine’s is a fee-paying school in Surrey with approximately 880 pupils, of which 170 board.1 The pageant was organised by David Clarke, who was a prominent pageant master in Surrey (see Shal... -
Kingston Grammar School Sexcentenary Pageant
From the outset, historical pageants were popular with schools; this is an example from the Edwardian period. In 1909, Kingston Grammar School celebrated its six hundredth anniversary, and it seems... -
Pageant of Hampshire History
Women’s Institute Pageants were highly popular during the 1920s and early 1930s, and county pageants were also greatly successful (see entries for the pageants of Staffordshire 1928 and Northampton... -
The Quest
This institution-led pageant, which took place in Blackburn in the north of England in 1930, made use of an existing text that was the work of no less than the grand pageant master himself—Louis Na... -
The Pageant of Parliament
The Pageant of Parliament, also advertised as ‘Parliament and the People’, was a major pageant-play that took place in the Royal Albert Hall in 1934. It had an extensive run of 24 performances, a c... -
Mid-Gloucestershire Pageant
The Mid-Gloucestershire Historical Pageant took place in September 1911 at Frome Hall Park in the market town of Stroud. There were three performances to what were reported as large crowds, likely ... -
Coronation Pageant
This pageant took place as part of the town of Burnley's coronation celebrations. Children from local secondary schools performed it, outdoors, on a specially extended stage at Towneley Park's musi... -
St Paul’s Steps
How much did spectators actually get out of pageants? Did people in the cheapest seats at the pageant, who most likely did not buy a programme or book of words, particularly those whose grip on his... -
This Precious Stone: A Pageant Play of Guildford
This pageant was put on by the Guildford Youth Committee. A film of the pageant was made, but the editing took a great deal of time. It was finally shown at the Gaumont British Cinema, Wardour Stre... -
Old Moreton 1589-1914
In the early years of the twentieth century, Elizabethan revels held as added attractions during Merrie England-type fetes were ten a penny. However, that held in 1914 in the village of Odd Rode, C... -
Army Pageant
The Army Pageant, London, was a major and ambitious spectacle, performed 21 times in the summer of 1910. It was a leviathan effort in all respects, but did not seem to make a profit—and was, as suc... -
Pageant of Great Women, Bristol
The Pageant of Great Women had premiered at the Scala, London, in 1909. After its phenomenal success there, raising the profile of women’s suffrage groups, it toured many provincial cities, reachin... -
Historical Pageant of Ipswich
‘The idea of writing a historical pageant of Ipswich was conceived by the History Club some time ago, and visions of its possible form presented themselves in February, 1934 when Mr. Rowley Ellisto... -
Time’s Daughters
Bedford College was the first women’s institute for higher education in the United Kingdom; founded in 1849, it became part of the University of London in 1900. At a time when few women had opportu... -
The Pageant of Great Women
By 1909, the women’s suffrage campaign in the UK was in turmoil. Political stalemate over the issue of the female franchise had given rise to the establishment of the Women’s Social and Political U... -
The Spirit of Warwickshire
Parker’s spectacular 1906 pageant had made a great impression on the people of Warwick; as the Tamworth Herald reported in January 1930, the event ‘was still spoken of in the county as “The Pageant... -
Rookery Garden Pageant
This event represents the most ephemeral of pageants; although it took place at the height of pageant fever, it has left little trace and demonstrates that, as well as large-scale performances, the...