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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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A Pageant of Basingstoke History
The 1951 Festival of Britain—which above all sought to revive the mood of a Britain dogged by seemingly never-ending austerity and rationing—was a late hurrah for the spirit of pageantry in a world...
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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 Place

Names of locations of pageants; doesn't include specific locales such as town square

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1 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

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

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1 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 Lascelles, Frank

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wrey, Sir Bourchier
1 Wade, F.C.
1 Usherwood, Stephen
1 Stuart, J.
1 Struben, A.
1 Ross, E. Denison
1 Oman, Charles
1 Luffman, Captain
1 Kirwan, Patrick
1 Hammersley-Heenan, Mr
1 Foster, William
1 Darbyshire, T.
1 Blankenberg, Lady

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 Composer

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

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2 Elgar, Edward
1 Woodforde-Finden, Amy
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Terry, Richard
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Smart, Henry
1 Shankar, Uday
1 Rosse, Frederick
1 Ring, Montague
1 Pointer, John
1 Phillips, Montague
1 Parry, Hugh
1 Mackenzie, Alexander
1 MacCunn, Hamish
1 Lemare, E.H.
1 Lehmann, Liza
1 Landon, Ronald
1 James, W.G.
1 Hill, Alfred
1 Hayes, Philip
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Grainger, Percy
1 German, Edward
1 Gatty, Nicholas
1 Fletcher, Percy
1 Finck, Herman
1 Elvey, George Job
1 Davis, J.D.
1 Davies, Walford
1 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
1 Coates, Eric
1 Clutsam, George
1 Byrd, William
1 Bunning, Herbert
1 Bath, Hubert
1 Barcroft, E.D.
1 Bantock, Granville

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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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2 Lancaster, Sir James
2 Elizabeth I
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Wilson, Allan
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 Wesley [Westley], John clergyman and a founder of Methodism
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington minister
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Wallop, Sir Henry member of parliament
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Victoria Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India
1 Sutton, Sir Richard
1 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
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 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 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Powlett [Paulet], Charles, third duke of Bolton
1 Pope, Sir Thomas
1 Park, Mungo
1 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
1 Livingstone, David
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John Hooke
1 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
1 Jahangir
1 Hudson, Henry
1 Howe, Richard, Earl Howe
1 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry III Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
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 Gibbon, Edward
1 George III
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence] England, consort of Henry III
1 Eglesfield [Egilsfeld], Robert [Robert de Eglesfeld]
1 Edward IV
1 Durham, William of
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Dampier, William
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Cook, James
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Brome, Adam
1 Blake, Robert
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
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 Austen, Jane
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Alcock, John

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