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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...
Chester Historical Pageant
In the foreword to the Official Souvenir Book of the pageant, the Master of the Pageant, George Hawtrey, claimed that: ‘Of all the cities in England there is none that binds the life of to-day so c...

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 Place

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1 Guildford, Surrey, England
1 Chester, Cheshire, England

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 Pageant Type

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 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Clarke, David

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Spurling, Claribel
1 Scott, Walter
1 Morris, Rupert
1 Milton, John
1 Macdonald, S.F.
1 Lovell, A.E.
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Clay, Beatrice
1 Clarke, David

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 Composer

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

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1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Smart, Henry
1 Lawes, William
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Hann, Lewis
1 Flemming, F.
1 Bridge, Dr J.C.
1 Bateson, Thomas

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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 Oswald [St Oswald]
2 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Æthelberht I
1 Ælfthryth
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Warenne, William
1 Victoria, princess royal
1 Victoria
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Sidney, Robert, second earl of Leicester
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 King James I
1 Kenneth II [Cináed mac Maíl Choluim]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 James VI and I
1 Ireton, Henry
1 Holles, Sir William
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Grosvenor, Sir Richard, first baronet
1 Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry]
1 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth Woodville]
1 Elizabeth I
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [St Edward; called Edward the Martyr]
1 Edward VII
1 Edward IV
1 Edward I
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Claudius [Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]
1 Charles I
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
1 Ball, John
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester
1 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Anne [Anne of Cleves]
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]
1 Alban [St Alban, Albanus]

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