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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
Dover’s staging of a historical folk-play in 1908 was a nationally important and spectacular example of an Edwardian town gripped by ‘pageantitis’. Directed by the original master himself, Louis Na...
Northampton Festival Trades Exhibition, Carnival and Pageant
‘To be content to live upon past history and achievement is a real temptation to individuals and communities alike. Well might we say, the historical associations of our Town and County richly ador...
The Pageant of Empire
The Pageant of Empire took place over the course of a wet six weeks in July and August 1924 in the huge newly-constructed concrete Wembley Stadium. It was just one attraction of the monumental Brit...

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Historical Figure: Chichele, Henry

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 Place

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1 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Dover, Kent, England
1 Abington Park, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

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Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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2 town
1 london
1 empire

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Monck, Nugent
1 Lascelles, Frank

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wrey, Sir Bourchier
1 Wade, F.C.
1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Stuart, J.
1 Struben, A.
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Ross, E. Denison
1 Rhoades, James
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Oman, Charles
1 Malory, Thomas
1 Luffman, Captain
1 Kirwan, Patrick
1 Hammersley-Heenan, Mr
1 Geddes, H.R.
1 Foster, William
1 Darbyshire, T.
1 Blankenberg, Lady

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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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3 Chichele, Henry
2 Henry VIII
2 Elizabeth I
2 Edward IV
2 Charles I
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Wilson, Allan
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Tresham, Sir Thomas
1 Sutton, Sir Richard
1 Stigand
1 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 St Pol, Mary de, countess of Pembroke
1 Speke, John Hanning
1 Smythe [Smith], Sir Thomas
1 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Shaka
1 Senlis, Simon
1 Scott, Robert Falcon [known as Scott of the Antarctic]
1 Scoresby, William, junior
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Richard III
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Pope, Sir Thomas
1 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Park, Mungo
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Mary I
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
1 Livingstone, David
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Lancaster, Sir James
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Joyce, George
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
1 Jahangir
1 Hudson, Henry
1 Howe, Richard, Earl Howe
1 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Henry VII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry V
1 Henry III
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke
1 Guy, John
1 Grenville, Sir Richard
1 Grant, James Augustus
1 Gonville [Gonvile], Edmund
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Giffard, Walter
1 George III
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Franklin, Benjamin
1 Fordham, John
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Eustace
1 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth Woodville]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Eglesfield [Egilsfeld], Robert [Robert de Eglesfeld]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Durham, William of
1 Dryden, John
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Dampier, William
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Cook, James
1 Clare, John
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Charles VI
1 Charles V
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Carey, William
1 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Brome, Adam
1 Blake, Robert
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Baffin, William
1 Arthur
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Alcock, John

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