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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Ramsgate Historical Pageant and Charter Jubilee Celebrations
A number of coastal resorts such as Torquay (1924) held pageants to commemorate their histories, as well as to draw tourists during the season. The Ramsgate Historical Pageant was certainly one of ...
Rochester Dickens Festival Pageant
The 1951 Festival of Britain saw something of a revival of historical pageantry. Although based on the Southbank of London, home of the famous ‘Skylon’, the Festival also supported many local exhib...
Bath Historical Pageant
Edwardian Pageants can accurately be said to have followed a domino-effect where a pageant, either in the locality or in a town of similar size, provoked the inception of another—for the sake of ke...
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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2 Rochester, Kent, England
1 Ramsgate, Kent, England
1 Hastings, Sussex, England
1 Bath, Somerset, England

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 Pageant Master

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2 Lascelles, Frank
1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Barnett, Orlando
1 Baring, Edward

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Woolf, D.E.A.
1 Waterhouse, Rev. Fr. F.A.
1 Veness, Molly
1 Tyler, Miss M.G.
1 Tylee, Edward S.
1 Taylor, Rev. Fr. Adrian Taylor
1 Skrine, J.H.
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Prowse, C.B.
1 Huddlestone, J.T.
1 Hanks, W.P.
1 Curzon, C.T.
1 Cruttenden, Mrs Alfred
1 Cooper, Rev. C.P. Cowland
1 Carr, Cecil T.
1 Cardozo, Rev. D.A.J.
1 Broadley, A.M.
1 Bowley, W.L.

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

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2 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
2 Stewart, C. Hylton
1 Whitlock, Percy
1 Tomblings, P.B.
1 Tapp, Frank
1 Stanford, Charles Villiers
1 Smyly, Cecil F.
1 Shaw, Martin
1 Schottler, W.F.C.
1 Purcell, Henry
1 New, A.E.
1 Morley, John
1 Heap, J.S.
1 Head, H.T.
1 Haworth, Herbert
1 Harringdon, Dr
1 Gounod, Charles
1 German, Edward
1 Fornsete, John of
1 D’Ace, Charles
1 Dwys, J.W.
1 David, H.J.
1 Byrd, William
1 Brearley, Mr Charles
1 Brearley, Dr. Herman
1 Bennett, H.A.
1 Allen, H.P.

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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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5 Dickens, Charles John Huffam
3 Elizabeth I
2 Æthelberht I
2 Shakespeare, William
2 Ralegh, Sir Walter
2 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
2 Chaucer, Geoffrey
2 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
2 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Ælfthryth
1 Wood, John
1 Wolfe, James
1 Wilmot, John, second earl of Rochester
1 William IV
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Wilkes, John
1 Wesley [Westley], John
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Watts, Richard
1 Warner, Richard
1 Warburton, William
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waller, Sir William
1 Vortigern [Gwrtheyrn]
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vere, Aubrey de, twentieth earl of Oxford
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Turner, Joseph Mallord William
1 Thackeray, William Makepeace
1 Tennyson, Alfred, first Baron Tennyson
1 Taylor, Sir Herbert
1 Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield
1 Spenser, Edmund
1 Smollett, Tobias George
1 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
1 Seymour, William, first marquess of Hertford and second duke of Somerset
1 Scudamore, Frances Fitzroy- [Frances Scudamore, duchess of Beaufort]
1 Saumarez, James, first Baron de Saumarez
1 Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex
1 Russell, John, fourth duke of Bedford
1 Ruskin, John
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Richardson, Samuel
1 Ratcliffe, Thomas
1 Pulteney, William, earl of Bath
1 Prynne, William
1 Pritchard [née Vaughan], Hannah
1 Popham, Alexander
1 Pope, Alexander
1 Plautius, Aulus
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Pitt [née Grenville], Hester, countess of Chatham and suo jure Baroness Chatham
1 Piozzi [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale], Hester Lynch
1 Percy, Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland
1 Perceval, John, second earl of Egmont
1 Payne, Antony [Anthony; called Cornish Giant]
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus]
1 Parker, George, second earl of Macclesfield
1 Otway, Sir Robert Waller, first baronet
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Morice, Sir William
1 More, Hannah
1 Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester
1 Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester
1 Montagu [née Robinson], Elizabeth
1 Mellitus
1 Maurice, prince palatine of the Rhine
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Marlowe [Marley], Christopher
1 Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer [formerly Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer], first Baron Lytton
1 Ley, James, third earl of Marlborough
1 Laurence [St Laurence, Lawrence]
1 Lady Arabella [Arbella]
1 King, Oliver
1 Justus [St Justus]
1 Jonson, Benjamin [Ben]
1 Jenkinson, Robert Banks, second earl of Liverpool
1 James II and VII
1 Howard, Henry, twelfth earl of Suffolk and fifth earl of Berkshire
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Horsa
1 Hopton, Ralph, Baron Hopton
1 Hogarth, Georgina
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry VII
1 Henry I
1 Hengist
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Hastings [née Shirley], Selina, countess of Huntingdon
1 Harington, John, first Baron Harington of Exton
1 Halford [formerly Vaughan], Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Grenville [Grenvile], Sir Bevil [Bevill]
1 Gloucester, Robert of
1 Gladstone, William Ewart
1 George IV
1 Fuller, Thomas
1 Frith, William Powell
1 Fox, Henry, first Baron Holland of Foxley
1 Fitzmaurice, Henry Petty-, third marquess of Lansdowne
1 Fielding, Sarah
1 Fielding, Henry
1 Fellowes, Sir James
1 Elphinstone, George Keith, Viscount Keith
1 Elphinstone [née Thrale], Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith
1 Elizabeth, Princess
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Dyce, William
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Dormer, Robert, first earl of Carnarvon
1 Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield
1 Digby, Kenelm Henry
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 Daniel, Samuel
1 Crabbe, George
1 Cope, Sir John [Jonathan]
1 Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, first earl of Lincoln
1 Claudius [Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]
1 Chudleigh, Elizabeth [married names Elizabeth Hervey, countess of Bristol; Elizabeth Pierrepont, duchess of Kingston upon Hull]
1 Charles II
1 Ceawlin
1 Cavendish, William, fourth duke of Devonshire
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Carey, Henry, first Baron Hunsdon
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Butler, James, first duke of Ormond
1 Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances [Fanny]
1 Burke, Edmund
1 Browning, Robert
1 Browning [née Moulton Barrett], Elizabeth Barrett
1 Brooke, William, tenth Baron Cobham
1 Bowles, William Lisle
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Bertha
1 Ball, John
1 Austen, Jane
1 Anstey, John
1 Amelia [Emily], Princess
1 Adela, countess of Blois

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