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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Barking Historical Pageant
The Barking Historical Pageant in October 1931 was a hastily organised event, designed to commemorate the granting of a municipal borough charter of incorporation that year. Barking had been trying...
The York Pageant
Louis Napoleon Parker, the acknowledged inventor of modern historical pageantry, chose to end his career as a pageant master in 1909. His final performance as a director of a large-scale pageant wa...
St Albans Pageant 1953: A Masque of the Queens
Having staged a pageant during the height of Edwardian ‘pageant fever’ in 1907, as well as one of the early post-war pageants in 1948, St Albans did it for the third time during the Coronation cele...

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Historical Figure: Stephen
Composer: Purcell, Henry

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 Place

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1 York, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Barking, Essex, England

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

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2 town
1 london

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Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Lascelles, Frank

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wilkinson, K.E.T.
1 Terry, J.E. Harold
1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Rhoades, James
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Loftus, E.A.
1 Jenks, F.A.
1 Harris, H.
1 Compton, J.
1 Coles, Miss M.
1 Anderson, W.

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

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3 Purcell, Henry
1 Wood, Charles
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Whyte, Robert
1 Warlock, Peter
1 Walton, William
1 Tendall, G.F.
1 Stanley, John
1 Noble, T. Tertius
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Meyerbeer, Giacomo
1 Lindsay, Robert
1 Kreisler, Fritz
1 John of Forness
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gray, Alan
1 Gibbons, Ellis
1 Foster, Arnold
1 Earle, Giles
1 Dunstable, John
1 Dowland, John
1 Covey-Crump, Lewis
1 Chirbury, Robert
1 Carey, Henry
1 Blow, John
1 Benet, John
1 Balfe, Michael

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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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3 Stephen
2 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
2 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
2 Morcar, earl of Northumbria
2 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
2 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
2 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
2 Bacon, Anthony
1 Ívarr [Ívarr inn Beinlausi, Ingwaer, Imhar]
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelred I in Oswulf
1 Æthelburh [St Æthelburh, Ethelburga]
1 Ælfflæd [St Ælfflæd, Elfleda]
1 Áedán [St Áedán, Aidan]
1 Wulfstan
1 Wotton, Sir Henry
1 Wortley, Sir Francis, first baronet and royalist army officer
1 William of York [St William of York, William fitz Herbert]
1 William le Gros, count of Aumale and earl of York
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror] of England and duke of Normandy
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 William Herbert, second earl of Pembroke
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Wenlock, John, first Baron Wenlock
1 Warenne, William
1 Waltheof, earl of Northumbria
1 Vyner [Viner], Sir Thomas, first baronet
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Venutius
1 Valence, Aymer de, eleventh earl of Pembroke
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert and diplomat
1 Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford
1 Tudor, Edmund [Edmund of Hadham], first earl of Richmond
1 Trollope, Sir Andrew
1 Tostig, earl of Northumbria
1 Thurstan York
1 Thornborough, John
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Thomas [Thomas of Bayeux, Thomas York]
1 Sæbbi
1 Sutton, John diplomat
1 Stuart, James, fourth duke of Lennox and first duke of Richmond
1 Stuart [Stewart], Ludovick, second duke of Lennox and duke of Richmond
1 Stewart, Alexander, duke of Albany and rebel
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir John
1 Stanley [née Sackville-West], Mary Catherine, countess of Derby [other married name Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness of Salisbury]
1 Siward, earl of Northumbria
1 Sir Richard Tempest
1 Shute, Richard
1 Shipton, Mother
1 Seton, Sir Alexander
1 Septimius Severus, Lucius
1 Seagrave [Segrave], Nicholas
1 Scrope, Richard
1 Scrope, John, fifth Baron Scrope of Bolton
1 Salisbury, Roger of
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Rotherham [Scot], Thomas York
1 Ros, Thomas, ninth Baron Ros
1 Robert I [Robert Bruce]
1 Richard [Richard
1 Richard III and lord of Ireland
1 Richard II and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Rich [née Devereux], Penelope, Lady Rich
1 Queen Æthelburh
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Pole, John de la, earl of Lincoln and rebel
1 Plautius, Aulus
1 Petre, Sir William
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Percy, Henry Algernon, sixth earl of Northumberland
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus] of York and of Rochester Paulinus
1 Parr, William, marquess of Northampton
1 Parker, William, thirteenth Baron Morley and fifth or first Baron Monteagle
1 Oswiu [Oswy] Northumbria
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Neville, John, Marquess Montagu
1 Murdac, Henry archbishop of York
1 Mowbray, Thomas first duke of Norfolk
1 Mowbray, Sir Roger de
1 Mowbray, John
1 Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester
1 Melton, William
1 Maudeleyn, Richard
1 Matilda, duchess of Saxony
1 Matilda [Matilda of Boulogne]
1 Malet, William
1 Malebisse [Malebysse], Richard
1 Lee, Edward York
1 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Ker, Robert, first earl of Roxburghe
1 Keith, Sir Robert
1 Katherine [Catherine; née Katherine Howard] Henry VIII
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola] of Britain
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John Harrington, fourth Baron Harrington
1 James VI and I England, and Ireland
1 James II and VII
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
1 Howard, Thomas, third duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
1 Hotham, John
1 Home, Alexander, first earl of Home
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
1 Hildelith [St Hildelith, Hildilid]
1 Hild [St Hild, Hilda]
1 Hewett, Sir William
1 Henry Wriothesley, Thomas, first earl of Southampton
1 Henry VIII and Ireland
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VI and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Henry VI
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke] of Aquitaine
1 Henry I
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France] Charles I
1 Hatton, Sir Christopher
1 Hatton, Christopher, first Baron Hatton
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Hadrian [Traianus Hadrianus]
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
1 Gresham, Sir Richard
1 Graham, James, first marquess of Montrose
1 Gospatric, earl of Northumbria
1 Glemham, Sir Thomas
1 George, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 Gascoyne, Sir Crisp
1 Gascoyne, Bamber
1 Fry [née Gurney], Elizabeth
1 Fitzwilliam, William, earl of Southampton administrator
1 Fitzalan, Thomas, fifth earl of Arundel and tenth earl of Surrey administrator
1 Fitzalan, Richard fourth earl of Arundel and ninth earl of Surrey
1 Fanshawe, Sir Thomas
1 Fanshawe, Sir Henry
1 Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Fairfax, Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1 Erik Bloodaxe [Eiríkr Blóðöx, Eiríkr Haraldsson]
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart] electress palatine, consort of Frederick V
1 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth de Burgh]
1 Elizabeth I
1 Eleanor [née Eleanor Cobham], duchess of Gloucester
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward, styled earl of Warwick
1 Edward [Edward of Middleham], prince of Wales
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon] of Aquitaine
1 Edmund I
1 Edith [St Edith, Eadgyth]
1 Edgar Ætheling or after 1125)
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Ecgberht [Egbert]
1 Eborius
1 Earconwald [St Earconwald, Erkenwald]
1 Eanflæd [St Eanflæd] Northumbria, consort of King Oswiu
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Ealdgyth [Aldgyth]
1 Eadwine [St Eadwine, Edwin]
1 Eadwine [Edwin]
1 Eadberht [Eadbert]
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Douglas, Sir James [called the Black Douglas]
1 Dormer, Robert, first earl of Carnarvon
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 Devereux, John, Baron Devereux and royal councillor
1 Despenser, Hugh, the younger, first Lord Despenser
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy rebel
1 Darcy, Sir John administrator
1 Curll, Walter
1 Cuffe [Cuff], Henry
1 Courtenay, Thomas, fourteenth earl of Devon
1 Cook, James
1 Constantius I [Flavius Valerius Constantius; called Constantius Chlorus]
1 Constantine I [Flavius Valerius Constantinus; known as Constantine the Great]
1 Constable, Sir William, baronet
1 Constable, Sir Robert
1 Colmán [St Colmán]
1 Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, first earl of Lincoln
1 Claudius [Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]
1 Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig] of the Rhine
1 Charles II Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles I Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles I
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne royalist army officer
1 Catton [known as Bronde], Robert
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Cartimandua [Claudia Cartimandua, Julia Cartimandua] of the Brigantes
1 Carausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus]
1 Campbell, Archibald, seventh earl of Argyll
1 Cambell, Sir James
1 Butler, James, first earl of Wiltshire and fifth earl of Ormond
1 Brus [Bruce], Robert
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond and administrator
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk and soldier
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Bowes, Sir Robert
1 Bourchier, Henry, first earl of Essex
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Booth [Bothe], William
1 Bonville, William, first Baron Bonville
1 Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford
1 Bohun, Humphrey de, fourth earl of Hereford and ninth earl of Essex
1 Blount, Sir Christopher
1 Blount, Charles, eighth Baron Mountjoy and earl of Devonshire
1 Bloet, Robert
1 Bertie, Robert, first earl of Lindsey
1 Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter
1 Beaufort, John, marquess of Dorset and marquess of Somerset and administrator
1 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Beauchamp, John, first Baron Beauchamp of Powick
1 Bardolf, Thomas, fifth Baron Bardolf
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Audley, Thomas, Baron Audley of Walden
1 Astley, John
1 Aske, Robert
1 Arundel [Fitzalan], Thomas archbishop of Canterbury
1 Anne [née Anne Neville]
1 Anne [Anne of Bohemia]
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark] of James VI and I
1 Anne
1 Allectus
1 Alcuin [Albinus, Flaccus]
1 Agilbert Saxon

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