St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.
Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.
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.
The days when Arbroath staged innovative spectacles with stunning lighting and pioneering sound effects enacting the coming into being of the Declaration of Scottish Independence, may be over, but a small band of pageant players still like to recall this part of Arbroath's heritage. Since the last full performance of the Arbroath pageant in 2005, every year on the 6th of April (the date when the famed declaration was originally despatched in 1320) members ...
Having worked my way through the tale of Arbroath's past pageant glory, I'm now familiar with the work of the pageant master who was in charge for at least twelve out of the town's eighteen pageants - Frank Thornton. As readers of our web page will know, the Arbroath pageant chiefly celebrated the signing of the Scottish Declaration of Independence in 1320.
I was never in any doubt that Mr Thornton was a ...
Last Monday I went to the Red Lion on Kingly Street, Soho. Nothing unusual about that, but on this occasion something different from normal was going on in the upstairs bar – a re-enactment of a Chartist meeting.
The re-enactment was part of a day-long event organised by Katrina Navickas, senior lecturer in history at the University of Hertfordshire. The event was supported by British Library Labs, an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ...
On Friday 21st August members of the Redress of the Past team attended the preview of our new exhibition hosted by Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust. Over one hundred invited guests (including many of our interviewees) came along to a reception and to see the exhibition ahead of its opening to the public on Saturday 22nd. We were also honoured by the attendance of Carlisle’s Mayor, Cllr Steve Layden.
The ...
We are almost into August, although you'd ...
We are grateful to Ken for sharing his wonderful pageant memorabilia with the project, including this photo of himself cutting a very dashing figure!