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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Benfleet Pageant
This was the first of three pageants held in the small town of Benfleet, Essex, after the Second World War (the others took place in 1953 and 1994). Staged in 1946, the midst of post-war austerity,...
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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Author%3Athornton%2C F.W.A.
Historical Figure%3Adouglas%2C Sir James %5Bcalled The Black Douglas%5D
Historical Figure%3Aedward I
Historical Figure%3Aedward Ii %5Bedward Of Caernarfon%5D
Historical Figure%3Amenteith%2C Sir John
Historical Figure: Anne [Anne Boleyn]
Historical Figure: Marshal, William
Pageant Master%3Awalker%2C Tom

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 Place

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1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 South Benfleet, Essex, 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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 Pageant Master

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1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Harland, Philip

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 Author

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1 Wright, Cyril E.
1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Lewis, Joan
1 Houghton, Rev. R.L.
1 Bingham, Walter A.

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1 Swinson, Arthur

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 Historical Figure

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2 Marshal, William
2 Henry VIII
2 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Æthelred I [Ethelred I]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Vescy [Vesci], Eustace de
1 Tresilian, Sir Robert
1 Temple, Sir Richard, third baronet
1 Scott [Scot], Thomas
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Robinson, Luke
1 Richard II
1 Peter [Peters], Hugh
1 Pagham, John of
1 Monck [Monk], George, first duke of Albemarle
1 Mare, Thomas de la
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Lacy, John de, third earl of Lincoln
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Jeune, Francis Henry, Baron St Helier
1 Howard, Henry, earl of Surrey
1 Hilary
1 Gumble, Thomas
1 Grimston, Sir Harbottle, second baronet
1 Grant, Anthony
1 Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fitzgerald, Raymond fitz William [known as Raymond le Gros]
1 Edward [called Edward the Elder]
1 Cowper, Francis Thomas de Grey, seventh Earl Cowper
1 Coppock, James
1 Clarke, Sir William
1 Clarges, Sir Thomas
1 Clare, Gilbert de, fifth earl of Gloucester and fourth earl of Hertford
1 Boleyn, Thomas, earl of Wiltshire and earl of Ormond
1 Boleyn [née Parker], Jane, Viscountess Rochford
1 Bohun, Jocelin de
1 Bell, Jacob
1 Beckett, Edmund [formerly Edmund Beckett Denison], first Baron Grimthorpe
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]

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