Pageants 3

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  1. Pageant of Labour
    In the words of the Glasgow Herald, 1934 was a ‘vintage year for pageants’ in London.2 Already the city had enjoyed the Pageant of Runnymede and the Pageant of Parliament; indeed, the Manchester Gu...

  2. Hull Grammar School Pageant
    Hull Grammar School had held a pageant in 1936, celebrating 450 years since its opening in 1486. Confusingly, the 1979 pageant took another date, its endowment seven years earlier in 1479 as the mo...

  3. Hull Grammar School Historical Pageant
    Hull and East Yorkshire came fairly late to historical pageantry, favouring civic processions instead (at Hull in 1931 and Beverley in 1936). The Hull pageant of 1936 was held in aid of the ‘Alcock...