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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Silver Jubilee Pageant
There was a revival of historical pageantry in 1977 on the occasion of the queen’s silver jubilee, and David Clarke’s pageant in Guildford was one of the most notable examples. Clarke had worked wi...
Time and the City: A Pageant Play
St Albans had staged three historical pageants, in 1907, 1948 and 1953. In 1968 an indoor ‘pageant play’ was staged, with three performances on the stage of the recently built City Hall, which coul...

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1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Guildford, Surrey, England

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2 town

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Clarke, David

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 Author

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1 Swinson, Arthur
1 Clarke, David

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1 Swinson, Arthur

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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 Richard II
2 Henry VIII
2 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Æthelberht I
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Warenne, William
1 Victoria, princess royal
1 Victoria
1 Vescy [Vesci], Eustace de
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Tresilian, Sir Robert
1 Temple, Sir Richard, third baronet
1 Sidney, Robert, second earl of Leicester
1 Scott [Scot], Thomas
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Robinson, Luke
1 Peter [Peters], Hugh
1 Pagham, John of
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Monck [Monk], George, first duke of Albemarle
1 Marshal, William
1 Mare, Thomas de la
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Lacy, John de, third earl of Lincoln
1 Jeune, Francis Henry, Baron St Helier
1 Ireton, Henry
1 Holles, Sir William
1 Hilary
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Gumble, Thomas
1 Grimston, Sir Harbottle, second baronet
1 Grant, Anthony
1 Geoffrey fitz Peter, fourth earl of Essex
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth Woodville]
1 Elizabeth I
1 Edward VII
1 Edward IV
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Cowper, Francis Thomas de Grey, seventh Earl Cowper
1 Coppock, James
1 Claudius [Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]
1 Clarke, Sir William
1 Clarges, Sir Thomas
1 Clare, Gilbert de, fifth earl of Gloucester and fourth earl of Hertford
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
1 Bohun, Jocelin de
1 Bell, Jacob
1 Beckett, Edmund [formerly Edmund Beckett Denison], first Baron Grimthorpe
1 Ball, John
1 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Anne [Anne of Cleves]
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]
1 Alban [St Alban, Albanus]

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