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The project team produced regular blog posts over the course of the period 2013-2017 (covering the years funded by the first AHRC) grant. These blog posts can be found below.

Conference report: ISCHE

by Thulme July 25, 2014 Comments

I presented a paper on Wednesday at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). This is being held at my own university, the Institute of Education in London. It is certainly the largest gathering of historians of education in this country, with something like 550 delegates, most of whom are presenting a paper. With colleagues, I have been responsible for putting together the academic programme, which has been a challenging task.
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Future Exhibition in Bury St. Edmund's

by Thulme July 25, 2014 Comments

One of the key aims of our project is to bring historical pageants to the wider population beyond the university, and especially to communities that have held historical pageants in the past. Bury St Edmund’s, as I wrote in my last blog post, has staged several large pageants across the twentieth century. Partnering up with the Magna Carta 800 and the St. Edmundsbury Heritage Service we are going to stage an exhibition in summer ...
Here's Tae Us # 3: Backland of Howp and Glore?

by Thulme July 22, 2014 Comments

We Scots are being advised these days that better times are coming... we're moving centre stage and emerging out of the de-industrialised shadows - no more in the economic backlands of the nation. What's more we're getting this advice from BOTH sides of the independence debate. Vote for independence say the Yes lobby and we're on a winner, all that's left of the oil is ours alone. Just say no, is ...
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- Scotland
- Hope
- Glory
- Pageants
- Identity
Here’s tae us, no. 2: gendering the nation

by Preadman June 30, 2014 Comments

I left off last time with a question about the pageant heroes in the commemorative image shown of the 1934 Pageant of Ayrshire. The answers to this question are as follows, clockwise from the top:

Robert Burns (one of the top 5 stars of Scottish pageants); Robert the Bruce (born in Ayrshire but also in the top 5 nationally); King Alexander III of Scotland (vanquished the Vikings in 1263); John Brown (well-known Covenanting martyr); King ...
Bury St Edmunds: A natural home for pageantry

by Thulme June 21, 2014 Comments

I’ve spent most of this week in the picturesque town of Bury St Edmund’s, Suffolk, carrying out archival research and meeting up with Alan Baxter, who represents Magna Carta 800 – one of our official project partners. I have, of course, also found plenty of time to wander around the extensive and beautifully conserved ruins of the medieval Abbey, and even to savour a pint in (officially!) the smallest bar in the UK – the ...
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- Magna
- Pageants
- History
- Carta
- Edmunds
- St
- Bury
Hertford's Historic Pageant 1914

by Thulme June 13, 2014 Comments

*Guest post by Philip Sheail *
In 1914, during the week of 29 June-4 July, an historic pageant took place in the county town of Hertford, as part of the celebrations to mark the millenary of the town’s foundation by the Saxon King Edward the Elder. The centenary of the pageant has in turn been marked by the publication of a book called Hertford’s Grand Pageant 1914, written by Philip Sheail in conjunction with ...
Here's Tae Us: no. 1

by Thulme June 11, 2014 Comments

Well it had to happen... Having spent the past six months looking at the documentary record of historical pageants in Scotland, within the context of a project that takes in shows that took place across most of the British Isles, I now have to come up with some ideas on what pageants north of the border had to say on the issue of Scottish identity. This question is not simply about the narrative content of ...
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- Pageants
- Salmond
- Independence
- Scottish
- Identity
- History
A pageant-related visit to Hertford

by Thulme June 9, 2014 Comments

It was a short journey from London on 1 June 2014 to the small county town of Hertford, to see the launch of a book by Philip Sheail entitled Hertford’s Grand Pageant 1914. In common with many other towns and cities in the Edwardian era, Hertford had a historical pageant, and there is something especially poignant about this one, which took place only a few days before the declaration of war. In the midst ...
Pageant treasures of the British Library #2

by Thulme June 5, 2014 Comments

In my last blog I mentioned the pageant-related manuscript sources, such as the scripts and scores relating to the Communist Party Centenary Pageant, which are held in the British Library. But of course the library also holds a wealth of other material too. Indeed it is the range and variety of the items held at the BL that truly impresses. As might be expected, there are many published books of words and souvenir volumes, one ...
Looking at peace pageants in the British Library

by Thulme June 2, 2014 Comments

I’ve had an interesting afternoon in the British Library reading books of words from peace pageants from the early post-First World War years. This has been a welcome distraction from other academic activities!

In July, on behalf of the ‘Redress of the Past’ team, I’ll be presenting a paper at ISCHE: the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, for which I’m also on the organising committee, as it’s being ...

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