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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Conway Pageant: Pageant Plays
The Conway Bridge Centenary Celebration of 1927 was a major week-long civic event, commemorating the 1826 engineering feat of Thomas Telford. Two historical pageants were produced, as well as a his...
The Pickering Pageant (or Historical Play)
Pageants were very popular in the North Riding of Yorkshire, as in other parts of the country, before the First World War. Thirsk staged a ‘historical play’ in 1907; York in 1909; and Scarborough ...

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1 Pickering, Yorkshire, North Riding, England
1 Conwy, Carnarvonshire, Wales

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Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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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 Hudson, Gilbert

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Whitehead, James D.
1 Wells, M.E.U.
1 Waring, George
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Manners, Mary E.
1 Loy, Eva E.
1 Kitching, Mrs R.
1 Jones, David E.
1 Jones, A.E.
1 Hudson, Gilbert
1 Goldsbrough, Albert
1 Cooper, Wilhelmina

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Includes names of composers at time of pageants, original composers, and those who did arrangements

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1 Parry, Joseph
1 Jones, David E.
1 German, Edward

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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 John
1 Williams, John
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Telford, Thomas
1 Taliesin
1 St Christopher
1 St Catherine of Alexandria
1 Rhys ap Tudur
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Owen, Sir John
1 Mytton, Thomas
1 Mortimer, Sir Edmund
1 Montagu [Montacute], John, third earl of Salisbury
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Maelgwn Gwynedd
1 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth [called Llywelyn Fawr]
1 Leland, John
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 Jones, John
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 Joan [Siwan]
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester
1 Henry of Lancaster [Henry of Grosmont], first duke of Lancaster
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Gwilym ap Tudur
1 Gruffudd ap Llywelyn
1 Gruffudd ap Cynan
1 Gerard
1 George [St George]
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Ednyfed Fychan
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Despenser, Hugh, the elder, earl of Winchester
1 Dafydd ap Llywelyn
1 Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund]
1 Cedd [St Cedd]
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Baldock, Robert
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester

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