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Co-operative Centenary Pageant
It is not clear whether this pageant used the same script as the series of Co-operative Centenary Pageants in 1944. -
Free Churches Pageant
A great many historical pageants were staged up and down the country in association with the 1951 Festival of Britain. These took various forms, from large-scale civic events to smaller performance... -
Ashton Centenary
This early post-war pageant was an element of the larger revival of historical pageantry in the years after 1945. It was staged indoors, alongside a large outdoor procession – watched by 50,000 peo... -
Pageant Play of the Book of the Common Prayer
The pageant was written to celebrate the quatercentenary of the first Book of Common Prayer. It also formed part of the Festival of Britain celebrations in Swansea. -
The Masque of Ancient Learning and Its Many Meanings
Despite the publicity which attended this pageant and the high profile of its chief proponent— Patrick Geddes—there is a great deal about it which remains stubbornly opaque. For example, although i... -
The Pageant of Margam Abbey
Margam (now a suburb of Port Talbot) has a long history. Among other things, the place was the site of an important Cistercian settlement (Margam Abbey), the story of which was re-enacted in this p... -
Pageant of the Border
Rural Northumberland is a landscape rich in associations with the past. Castles such as those at Alnwick and Ford bear testimony to centuries of Anglo-Scottish conflict. The pageant held here, at W... -
Pageant of Pembroke
It was originally intended that the Pembroke Pageant would take place in 1957, to coincide with the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Henry Tudor—King Henry VII—at Pembroke Castle. In the ... -
The Golden Chain
Derby was no stranger to historical pageants in the early post-war years: pageants had been staged there in 1946, 1948 and 1949. In 1950 'The Golden Chain' was performed in St Paul's School hall to... -
Merched Anrhydedd
Merched Anrhydedd was a small pageant staged in the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Morfa Nefyn. The pageant was performed once, on 6 February 1958. It seems to have been performed in Welsh: its ti... -
Athelstan Millenary Pageant
Kingston Upon Thames is the oldest of England's four Royal Boroughs and has long had a close association with the monarchy. Indeed, no fewer than seven Anglo-Saxon kings were crowned at Kingston. O... -
A Pageant of Moravian Missions
Historical pageants were popular with religious groups across the twentieth century. This is an example of one such pageant. Staged by the Fulneck Girls' School of the Moravian settlement in Pudsey... -
Pageant of Harrow
Adapted by Ruth L. Tonge from the Book of Words of the earlier 1923 Harrow Historical Pageant, this pageant was presented by the combined Boy Scout Associations of Harrow Urban District. It is an e... -
Tenterden Homewood School Pageant
Historical pageants were popular with schools; this is an postwar example. While many such pageants commemorated anniversaries in the history of the school in question, this one was staged in assoc... -
Grand Pageant of Brighton
There is very little information about this major pageant. It was staged by Patrick Kirwan, who staged major pageants during the 1920s at Harlech (1920), Arundel (1923), Wimbledon (1925), and Bexhi... -
Coronation Historical Pageant
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 was an occasion for historical pageantry. Major examples include events in Warwickshire and Lancaster, but smaller-scale village-level pageants also too... -
Hail Caledonia
This was a pageant organised by the Edinburgh and Leith Boys' Brigade.d -
The Saut-Box Pageant
This may have been a procession. -
Princess Came to Scotland: Being a Pageant-play of St Margaret
There is very little information about this pageant. -
Mary Queen of Scots Pageant
The pageant formed one element of a fete in aid of the Scottish League of Pity. There was news coverage in the Scotsman.