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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Rochester Historical Pageant
Tom Hulme has written about interwar Civic Boosterism through Pageantry, whereby cities competed to raise their profile and, often combined with industrial and trades exhibitions, sought to boost t...
Hastings Dickens Centenary Pageant
Charles Dickens had little connection with the town of Hastings, visiting the town in November 1861 to give readings from A Christmas Carol and the Pickwick Papers at the Music Hall.3 Dickens and h...

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 Place

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1 Rochester, Kent, England
1 Hastings, Sussex, England

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2 town

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 Pageant Master

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1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Barnett, Orlando

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1 Tyler, Miss M.G.
1 Cruttenden, Mrs Alfred

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1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Whitlock, Percy
1 Stewart, C. Hylton
1 Shaw, Martin
1 Brearley, Mr Charles
1 Brearley, Dr. Herman
1 Bennett, H.A.

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Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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2 Dickens, Charles John Huffam
2 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Æthelberht I
1 Wilmot, John, second earl of Rochester
1 Watts, Richard
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vere, Aubrey de, twentieth earl of Oxford
1 Spenser, Edmund
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Seymour, William, first marquess of Hertford and second duke of Somerset
1 Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Ratcliffe, Thomas
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Plautius, Aulus
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus]
1 Morice, Sir William
1 Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester
1 Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester
1 Mellitus
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Laurence [St Laurence, Lawrence]
1 Justus [St Justus]
1 Jonson, Benjamin [Ben]
1 James II and VII
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Hogarth, Georgina
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry I
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Gloucester, Robert of
1 Elizabeth I
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, first earl of Lincoln
1 Claudius [Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]
1 Charles II
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Carey, Henry, first Baron Hunsdon
1 Butler, James, first duke of Ormond
1 Brooke, William, tenth Baron Cobham
1 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Adela, countess of Blois

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