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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.

Another pageant exhibition!

by Preadman March 4, 2015 Comments

The Redress of the Past team is involved in another exhibition, this one at Carlisle, opening in August 2015. The exhibition organizers have sent out an appeal for stories...
The Carlisle Historical Pageants Exhibition – Appeal for your stories
From 22nd August to the 18th October 2015 Tullie House will be showing a temporary exhibition which will explore the Carlisle historic pageants of 1928, 1951 and 1977.
Each Pageant will be carefully analysed to examine themes ...
We're excited!

by Preadman March 2, 2015 Comments

We’re really excited at the moment, because we are trialing the beta version of our online public contribution tool. Once this goes live – soon we hope! – anybody will be able to upload pictures relating to pageants onto our website. We’d be delighted to see your postcards, photographs, diaries, newspaper clippings – you name it! You will even be able to add comments to any items in the collection, as it grows to become the ...
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 ...

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