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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Scottish Historical Pageant
In July 1927, the Scottish Historical Pageant was held in the grounds of Craigmillar Castle in Edinburgh. With nearly 4000 performers, 200 horses and a grandstand capacity of 10,000— and a total au...
The Pageant of London
The Pageant of London was the main attraction of the Festival of Empire at Crystal Palace in 1911. Undoubtedly the largest and most ambitious pageant of the Edwardian period, if not the whole twent...
The Three Towns Pageants
The Festival of Britain 1951 was the key cultural event of the period.3 Nationwide, a programme of events was skilfully planned with the aim of embracing modernist influences on British culture whi...

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Author%3Amilton%2C John
Composer%3Adicks%2C Ernest A.
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Historical Figure%3Arupert%2C Prince And Count Palatine Of The Rhine And Duke Of Cumberland
Historical Figure: Henry Viii
Historical Figure: Margaret [Margaret Tudor]

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 Place

Names of locations of pageants; doesn't include specific locales such as town square

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1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England
1 Craigmillar, Midlothian, Scotland

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 Pageant Type

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

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2 london
1 national
1 large town/city
1 empire

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Ede, Christopher
1 Benson, F.R.

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 Author

Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Wylie, J.H.
1 Willson, Beckles
1 Wheatley, H.B.
1 Tuner, G.J.
1 Smith, S. Armitage
1 Sharp, Cecil J.
1 Rose, Dr J. Holland
1 Pollard, A.W.
1 Oman, Charles
1 Markoe, F.H.
1 Major, Albany F.
1 Magnussen, Mrs Sigridr E.
1 Lomas, Sophie C.
1 Leadam, I.S.
1 Laughton, J. G. Carr
1 Hendley, Col. T.H.
1 Hall, Hubert
1 Gomme, Laurence
1 Gomme, Allan
1 Gomme, Alice Bertha
1 Gairdner, James
1 Fox, Frank
1 Egerton, Professor
1 Ede, Christopher
1 Donne, T.E.
1 Coulton, G.G.
1 Corbett, Julian S.
1 Colvin, Ian S.
1 Collingwood, W.G.

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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 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
3 Henry VIII
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 James VI and I
2 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
2 Henry V
2 Elizabeth I
2 Docwra, Sir Thomas
2 Charles I
1 Óláf [Óláfr] Tryggvason
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Ælfwig
1 arausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warham, William
1 Walworth, Sir William
1 Walsingham, Sir Francis
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waldegrave, William, first Baron Radstock
1 Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers [married name Stuart], Mary, duchess of Lennox and Richmond
1 Urswick, Christopher
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Tuke, Sir Brian
1 Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford
1 Tuck, Friar
1 Tomlinson [Thomlinson], Matthew, appointed Lord Tomlinson under the protectorate
1 Thorkell the Tall [Þorkill inn Hávi], earl of East Anglia
1 The Earl of Warwick
1 The Earl of Oxford
1 Swift, Jonathan
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Stewart, Henry, duke of Albany [known as Lord Darnley]
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Standish, Myles
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Savage, Thomas
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pope, Alexander
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Orde, Sir John, first baronet
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund
1 Norris [Norreys], Sir John
1 Nias, Sir Joseph
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Morton, John
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 MacDonnell [née Manners; other married name Villiers], Katherine, duchess of Buckingham and marchioness of Antrim
1 Lumley, John, fifth Baron Lumley
1 Lovell, Francis, Viscount Lovell
1 Longland, John
1 Livesay [Livesey], Sir Michael, first baronet
1 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Lewis, John
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Langton, John
1 Laforey, Sir Francis
1 Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln
1 Knox, John
1 Kite, John
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Juxon, William
1 John the Old Saxon
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine [called the Fair Maid of Kent]
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James IV
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Hussey [Huse], Sir William
1 Hungerford, Sir Walter
1 Hudson, Jeffery
1 Howard, Theophilus, second earl of Suffolk
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Howard, Aletheia [née Talbot], countess of Arundel, of Surrey, and of Norfolk, and suo jure Baroness Furnivall, Baroness Talbot, and Baroness Strange of Blackmere
1 Howard [née Tilney], Agnes, duchess of Norfolk
1 Hooke, Robert
1 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
1 Hood, Robin
1 Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme
1 Hobson, William
1 Hill, Rowland, first Viscount Hill
1 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Hepburn, Patrick, first earl of Bothwell
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Hatton, Sir Christopher
1 Hastings, George, first earl of Huntingdon
1 Harvey, Sir Eliab
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton, Sir Charles, second baronet
1 Hales, Sir Robert
1 Gytha
1 Gyrth, earl of East Anglia
1 Guildford, Sir Richard
1 Guildford, Sir Henry
1 Grimbald [St Grimbald]
1 Grey, Thomas, second marquess of Dorset
1 Grey, Leonard [known as Lord Leonard Grey], Viscount Graney
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George IV
1 George III
1 George II
1 Gay, John
1 Frederick William III
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [Edmund of Langley], first duke of York
1 Edmund II [known as Edmund Ironside]
1 Edgar Ætheling
1 Ealhswith
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 David II
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy
1 Danvers, Henry, earl of Danby
1 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Cook, James
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles II
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, George
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Campbell [née Gunning], Elizabeth, duchess of Argyll and suo jure Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon [other married name Elizabeth Hamilton, duchess of Hamilton and Brandon]
1 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
1 Brewster, William
1 Brandon, Sir Thomas
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Bradford, William
1 Brackenbury, Sir Robert
1 Bourchier, John, second Baron Berners
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bligh, Sir Richard Rodney
1 Blackwood, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Ball, John
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Amelia [Emily], Princess
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I
1 Aldhelm [St Aldhelm]

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