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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Oxford Pageant of Victory
From the book of words and its references to several hundred participants in some scenes, this appears to have been a very large pageant, and was one of a number held in the aftermath of the First ...
Farfar Will Be Farfar Still: A Cavalcade of Forfar's Story
One of the county town of Forfar's neighbours in Angus is the coastal township of Arbroath, which by 1965 had hosted no fewer than twelve historical pageants, the first having being held in 1947. R...

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Historical Figure: Malcolm Iii [Mael Coluim Ceann Mór, Malcolm Canmore]
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1 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
1 Forfar, Angus, Scotland

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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

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1 Douglas, Harry
1 Bergerac, Bernice de

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1 Tennyson, Alfred Lord
1 Spenser, Edmund
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Rawnsley, F.A.
1 Petrarch, Francesco
1 Kemp, Robert
1 Dryden, John
1 Burrows, Ione
1 Binyon, Laurence
1 Bergerac, Bernice de

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

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1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Davie, Cedric Thorpe
1 Bernard, W.D.

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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 Margaret [St Margaret]
2 Malcolm III [Mael Coluim Ceann Mór, Malcolm Canmore]
1 Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad [M' Íte; Deirdre; Ita]
1 Walter, Lucy
1 Stuart [Stewart], Frances Teresa, duchess of Lennox and Richmond [called La Belle Stuart]
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Philip the Good
1 Petrarch, Francesco
1 Patrick [St Patrick, Pádraig]
1 Palmer [née Villiers], Barbara, countess of Castlemaine and suo jure duchess of Cleveland
1 Orso, Count of Anguillara
1 Ogilvy, James, second earl of Airlie
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 Jamieson, John
1 Isabella of Portugal
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Henry V
1 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
1 Graham, James, first marquess of Montrose
1 George [St George]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 David [St David, Dewi]
1 Charles VI
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Charles Edward [Charles Edward Stuart; styled Charles III; known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie]
1 Campbell, Archibald, marquess of Argyll
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Arthur
1 Andrew [St Andrew]

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