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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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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.

  • 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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