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Pageant of St Bees
A local press report published shortly after the pageant held at St Bees School in 1928 remarked that 'Historical Pageants are something of a novelty in Cumberland'. This piece went on to comment t... -
Pageant of Kilmany
This pageant took place at Kilmany House in Fife, and was probably a series of tableaux. Organised by the local Scottish Women's Rural Institute to support the North Fife Nursing Association, the d... -
Rillington Pageant
In the 1920s, in the small Yorkshire village of Rillington, the Women's Institute based there had a drama section that punched well above its weight. Rillington WI took many prizes for their perfor... -
Reigate Pilgrim’s Pageant 1913
Society launched a ‘shilling fund’ with the aim of preserving Colley Hill, an open space near Reigate in Surrey. This pageant was part of the society’s fundraising effort, which was ultimately succ... -
Haslingfield Pageant, Two Hundred Years of Village Life, 1360-1560
‘By what authority do we urge for support in the production of this Pageant? We answer that it is the History of Haslingfield itself which makes this silent demand for the perpetuation in our memor... -
Battle of Lewes Pageant
Like the nearby Battle of Hastings Pageant (1966), this was a historical re-enactment of a battle and not strictly a historical pageant, consisting of episodes dominated by dramatic performance. It... -
Pageant of Thurlow
The Pageant of Thurlow was a restaging of the 1938 pageant, back by popular demand: ‘It is being repeated largely because of the requests made by many of those, numbering approximately a thousand, ... -
Chittlehampton Pageant
The pageant consciously echoed a similar pageant which had taken place in 1936, which had likewise told the story of the gruesome martyrdom of Saint Hieritha. As had also been the case on that earl... -
The Masque of the Lady Margaret
The Women’s Institute Movement first came to Britain from Canada in 1915, and rapidly spread across the country. Bedfordshire villages first took it up towards the end of the Great War, and its ext... -
The Albury Pageant
Small-scale village and church pageants were still occasional features of local community life in the 1990s; this is an example. It is perhaps worth pointing out that Surrey showed particular enthu... -
Hatfield Pageant
The Hatfield Pageant was one of many in the interwar period which focused heavily on the Tudors, managing as it did to feature four out of five of the monarchs in a single scene. Henry VIII acquire... -
Lincoln Cathedral Pageant
The Lincoln Cathedral Pageant was held to raise funds to repair the cathedral; it was a relatively small-scale affair. Indeed, Lincoln was one of the few cathedral cities to have no major pageant, ... -
Telescombe Pageant
Little is known about this pageant, which was evidently a sizeable village pageant (there were about three hundred performers) and organized by Ambroce Gorham, a local village benefactor. A photo a... -
Coronation Pageant: the Tree Grows
Stannington Sanatorium was the UK's first purpose-built hospital for children suffering from tuberculosis and was opened in 1907, funded by a local charity.[1] The hospital was given over to the ju... -
‘The Land Around Us’: a Pageant of the Isle of Ely
This indoor pageant - one of several held in and around Ely (see 1951 and 2000) was performed just once, on 25 July 1956. Held in the hall of the county Secondary School in Witchford, near Ely, it ... -
Walpole Old Chapel Tercentenary Pageant
Nonconformist religious groups were notably active in the pageant movement. This is a post-Second World War example from Walpole in Suffolk, which was put on by members of local Congregational chur... -
Tatsfield Church Pageant
This was a very small church pageant. Its main claim to fame was that its cast included two members of the great Liberal dynasty, the Bonham-Carters: Margaret and Rosemary. Small though it was, how... -
Co-operative Centenary Pageant
It is not clear whether this pageant used the same script as the series of Co-operative Centenary Pageants in 1944. -
Free Churches Pageant
A great many historical pageants were staged up and down the country in association with the 1951 Festival of Britain. These took various forms, from large-scale civic events to smaller performance... -
Ashton Centenary
This early post-war pageant was an element of the larger revival of historical pageantry in the years after 1945. It was staged indoors, alongside a large outdoor procession – watched by 50,000 peo...