Pageants 3

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  1. Pageant of Great Women, Bristol
    The Pageant of Great Women had premiered at the Scala, London, in 1909. After its phenomenal success there, raising the profile of women’s suffrage groups, it toured many provincial cities, reachin...

  2. The Pageant of Great Women
    By 1909, the women’s suffrage campaign in the UK was in turmoil. Political stalemate over the issue of the female franchise had given rise to the establishment of the Women’s Social and Political U...

  3. The Pageant of England
    If one were in search of England in the 1930s, as so many contemporaries from H.V. Morton to J.B. Priestley to George Orwell seemed to be, one could do worse than head to Slough. The army had set u...