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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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A Pageant of Grimston
Whilst most pageants celebrated a place, occasionally they celebrated the exploits of a single family. This was the case here, the family in question being the Grimstons. The village of Grimston is...
White Castle Pageant
There is unfortunately little information about this interesting early, and sizeable, Welsh pageant beyond the book of words, although there may well be significant press coverage in local Newport ...
Pageant of Hampshire History
Women’s Institute Pageants were highly popular during the 1920s and early 1930s, and county pageants were also greatly successful (see entries for the pageants of Staffordshire 1928 and Northampton...
Pageant of the Black Prince
Trematon Castle was built around 1240, with a gatehouse added by Edward in 1350.[1] The pageant reverberates with the anxiety over war, shown through the Fortune Teller’s prediction of battleships ...
Preston Historical Pageant
In the north of England in September 1922, all roads led to Preston as it welcomed visitors in their hundreds of thousands to its historic 'Gild [Guild] Festival', held over the second week of the ...

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Composer: Schubert, Franz

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 Place

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

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1 Saltash, Cornwall, England
1 Preston, Lancashire, England
1 Newport/Casnewydd, Monmouthshire, Wales
1 Hursley, Hampshire, England
1 Grimston Garth, Yorkshire, East Riding, England

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

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3 town
1 institutional
1 Village

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 Pageant Master

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1 Weir, Mrs Robert
1 Hall, Mrs Jeffrey
1 De Ferrars, D'Arcy
1 Berry, A.J.

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Stevens, F.E.
1 Porter, T.C.
1 Diggens, Rev. W.A.
1 Berry, A.J.

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5 Schubert, Franz
2 Wagner, Richard
1 Warrack, Guy
1 Veazie, G.A.
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Sterndale Bennett, William
1 Spazier, Johann G.K.
1 Smith, I. Sydney
1 Smart, Henry
1 Rubenstein, Anton
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Parry, Hubert
1 Morley, Thomas
1 Martin, Frederick John Easthope
1 Lovatt, F.M.
1 Lofthouse, B.
1 Hullah, John
1 Howard, C.F.
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Grieg, Edvard
1 Gounod, Charles
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Coles, P.G.
1 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
1 Brahms, Johannes
1 Berry, A.J.
1 Bach, Johann Sebastian
1 Arcadelt, Jacques

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Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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2 William II [known as William Rufus]
2 Elizabeth I
2 Edward I
1 Ælfthryth
1 Wilfrid [St Wilfrid]
1 Teilo [St Teilo, Eliau, Eliud] fl. c.550)
1 Stanley, Henry, fourth earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Edward, third earl of Derby
1 Seymour, Edward, first earl of Hertford
1 Roger the Poitevin
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Monmouth, Geoffrey of [Galfridus Arturus]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Lisle, Lady Alice [née Alice Beconsawe]
1 John lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León and steward of England
1 Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine [called the Fair Maid of Kent]
1 Jeffreys, George, first Baron Jeffreys
1 Henry V and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Grandison, John Exeter [also known as Grandisson, John]
1 Glyn Dŵr [Glyndŵr], Owain [Owain ap Gruffudd Fychan, Owen Glendower]
1 George IV
1 Fitzherbert [née Smythe; other married name Weld]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine English throne and military commander
1 Edward III England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edward I and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Dafydd [David] Gam
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Briouze [Braose], William 1211)
1 Boniface [St Boniface]
1 Blanche of Lancaster
1 Berengaria [Berengaria of Navarre]
1 Ascham, Roger

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